wave vs surge

wave and surge both are nouns.

wave and surge both are verbs.

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

As nouns, surge is a hyponym of wave; that is, surge 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)
surge: a large sea wave

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

wave (noun)	surge (noun)
a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon	a sudden or abrupt strong increase
a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair	a sudden forceful flow
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand	a large sea wave
(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)	surge (verb)
set waves in	see one's performance improve
signal with the hands or nod	rise rapidly
move or swing back and forth	rise and move, as in waves or billows
twist or roll into coils or ringlets	rise or move forward
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion	rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave

Difference between wave and surge

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