wave vs kink

wave and kink both are nouns.

wave and kink both are verbs.

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

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

wave: twist or roll into coils or ringlets
kink: curl tightly

Other hyponyms of wave include crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up.

wave (noun)	kink (noun)
a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon	a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair	an eccentric idea
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand	a person with unusual sexual tastes
(physics) a movement up and down or back and forth	a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)	a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
something that rises rapidly
a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
an undulating curve

wave (verb)	kink (verb)
set waves in	form a curl, curve, or kink
signal with the hands or nod	curl tightly
move or swing back and forth
twist or roll into coils or ringlets
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

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