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Definition: Undulate |
UndulateAdjective1. Having a sinuate margin and rippled surface. Verb1. Stir up (water) so as to form ripples. 2. Occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past". 3. Move in a wavy pattern, as of curtains. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "undulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Synonyms: UndulateSynonyms: cockle (v), flap (v), riffle (v), ripple (v), roll (v), ruffle (v), wave (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convolution | Verb: be convoluted; Adjective:wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate; entwine, intwine; twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crape, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort; contort; wreathe; (cross). |
Evolution | Verb: oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Undulate |
| English words defined with "undulate": Undulated, Undulating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "undulate": undulate resistor. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "undulate": Undulary. (references) |
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 | Agitate; alternate; bob; bounce; buffet; flap; flicker; fluctuate; flutter; heave; jerk; jounce; oscillate; palpitate; pitch; pound; pulsate; pulse; quake; quaver; quiver; ripple; shake; shiver; swing; thrill; throb; thump; tremble; twitch; undulate; vibr. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Undulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Undulate" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "undulate": cause to undulate ♦ undulate resistor. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
undulate | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "undulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me dallgë, i valëzuar (ripply, wavy), i dallgëzuar (ripply, wavy). (various references) | |
Arabic | موج (crimp, crisp, curl, wave), متموج (crisp, crispy, rolling, undulant, wavy), تموج (corrugate, fluctuate, ripple, roll, ruffle, stream, undulation, vibration, wave). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вълнообразно нарязан, вълнообразно нагънат, вълнист (curly, flamboyant, undulant, undulating, waved, wavy), люлея се (nutate, oscillate, rock, seesaw, sway, swing, teeter, toss, vacillate, vibrate), полюшквам се вълнообразно. (various references) | |
Chinese | 波動 (fluctuate, wave motion). (various references) | |
Czech | vlnit se (Crimp, curl, ripple, surge, sweep, wave). (various references) | |
Danish | broget rokke (marbled ray, painted ray, undulate ray), bølgeformet modstand (undulate resistor). (various references) | |
Dutch | golven (buckling, cockling, curling, The Waves, wave, waviness). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ondi. (various references) | |
Farsi | موجداربودن (Surge), موج دارکردن , نوسان داشتن , تموج داشتن (Shimmer). (various references) | |
Finnish | lainehtia (billow), aaltoilla (wave). (various references) | |
French | onduler. (various references) | |
Frisian | baarje. (various references) | |
German | wogen (billow, heave, rage, ripple, rolling, surge, swell, to billow, to surge, toss, wave, waves, welter, welters), wallen (boil, flow, surge). (various references) | |
Greek | κυματώδησ (billowy, choppy, surfy, surgy, wavy), κυματίζω (stream, wave, wimple), κυμαίνομαι (fluctuate, waver). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"יות בצור" 'לית, ל"ת'לין (fluctuate, ripple). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hullámzik (billow, surge, to chop, to feather, to fluctuate, to ripple, to undulate, to wave, wave), hullámossá tesz (to undulate), hullámos (crisp, crispy, lumpy, undulated, undulatory, waved, wavy). (various references) | |
Italian | ondeggiare (flutter, hesitate, ripple, rock, roll, sway, wave, waver). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 畝ねる (to meander, to roll, to surge, to swell, to undulate, to wind), 波"つ (to beat fast, to dash against, to heave, to undulate, to wave). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なみうつ (to beat fast, to dash against, to heave, to undulate, to wave), うねる (to meander, to roll, to surge, to swell, to undulate, to wind). (various references) | |
Manx | tonnaghey (surge, undulation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulateunday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ondular (coif, corrugate, crimp, crinkle, curl, dimple, flaunt, frizz, poise, popple, ripple, splatter, wave), ondear (billow, goffer, wave). (various references) | |
Romanian | se undui (Popple), se ondula (corrugate, crisp), legãna (balance, cradle, dangle, rock, stagger, sway, swing, wave). (various references) | |
Russian | ундулирующий, рябить (curl, ruffle), волнообразный (wave-like), волнистый (curly, ripply, squiggly, waved, wavy, wiggly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ustalasati (churn out), talasati se (billow, ruffle, welter), talasast (billowy, corrugated, curly, rolling, sinuous, undulating, waved, wavy). (various references) | |
Spanish | ondular (billow, corrugate, curl, heave, ripple, roll, slither, wave, waves). (various references) | |
Swedish | bölja (billow, surge, wave). (various references) | |
Turkish | inip çıkmak (balance, fluctuate, pump, seesaw), inişli çıkışlı olmak, dalgalanmak (balance, float, flourish, fluctuate, flutter, fly, ripple, ruffle, shiver, stream, surge, wave, whip), dalgalandırmak (cause to undulate, cockle, corrugate, crisp, curl, ripple, ruffle, vex, wave). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рухатися хвилеподібно, хвилястий (anfractuose, billowy, crimpy, ripply, sinuous, undulated, waved, wavy), хвилеподібний (sinuous, undulated, undulatory), викликати хвилеподібний рух. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhấp nhô (downy, popply, undulating), gợn sóng (undulating, undulatory). (various references) | |
Welsh | tonni (billow, wave). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fluctuabat, fluctuantem, fluctuantes, fluctuate, fluctuatur, raie brunette, Raja undulata, unda, VE raie ondulée. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "undulate": undulated, undulates. (additional references) | |
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"Undulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: endulate, lunulae, ubdulate, undealt, undilate, undulata, undulose, unulate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "undulate" (pronounced u"njulā't) |
| 5 | -j u l ā' t | adulate, flagellate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | annihilate, articulate, accumulate, assimilate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, vacillate, ventilate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-n-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: lunated, unadult. | |
-2 letters: dental, eluant, lunate, lunted, unlade, unlead. | |
-3 letters: adult, anted, daunt, dealt, delta, eland, laden, lated, laten, leant, lunet, lutea, luted, naled, tuned, ulnad, ulnae, undue, unled, unlet. | |
-4 letters: ante, auld, aunt, dale, date, daut, deal, dean, delt, dent, dual, duel, duet, dune, dunt, elan, etna, lade, land, lane, late, laud, lead. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-n-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: undulated, undulates. | |
+2 letters: fraudulent. | |
+3 letters: pedunculate, undauntable, undauntedly, undoubtable, unevaluated, uninsulated, unregulated. | |
+4 letters: fraudulently, pedunculated, uncalculated, uncirculated, uncultivated, undisputable, unduplicated, unformulated, uninoculated. | |
+5 letters: adventurously, unadulterated, unarticulated, unmanipulated. | |
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