wave vs wake

wave and wake both are nouns.

wave and wake both are verbs.

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

As nouns, wake is a hyponym of wave; that is, wake 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)
wake: the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward

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

wave (noun)	wake (noun)
a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon	a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair	the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
the act of signaling by a movement of the hand	the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
(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)	wake (verb)
set waves in	be awake, be alert, be there
signal with the hands or nod	stop sleeping
move or swing back and forth	cause to become awake or conscious
twist or roll into coils or ringlets	to alert someone to something
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion	arouse or excite feelings and passions

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