wave vs billow

wave and billow both are nouns.

wave and billow both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wave	Yes	No	Yes	No
billow	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, billow is a hyponym of wave; that is, billow is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than wave:

wave: one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
billow: a large sea wave

Other hyponyms of wave include breaker, breakers, surf, backwash, wake, swash, riffle, ripple, rippling, wavelet, crestless wave, swell, lift, rise, surge, tidal wave, tidal wave, tsunami, roll, roller, rolling wave, comber, white horse, whitecap.

wave (noun)	billow (noun)
a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon	a large sea wave
a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
something that rises rapidly
a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
an undulating curve

wave (verb)	billow (verb)
set waves in	become inflated
signal with the hands or nod	rise and move, as in waves or billows
move or swing back and forth	rise up as if in waves
twist or roll into coils or ringlets	move with great difficulty
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

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