Undulate
verb
To move smoothly up and down or from side to side, like waves.
The countryside undulated with hills and valleys.
Often appears as...
- land undulates
- body undulates
adjective
Having a wavy shape or outline.
The leaf has an undulate margin.
Often appears as...
- undulate leaf
- undulate surface
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To move smoothly up and down or from side to side, like waves.
The countryside undulated with hills and valleys.
Often appears as...
- land undulates
- body undulates
adjective
Having a wavy shape or outline.
The leaf has an undulate margin.
Often appears as...
- undulate leaf
- undulate surface
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Expressing Movement
Best used when describing something that moves in a wave-like motion, often gracefully.
The belly dancer's hips undulated to the rhythm of the music.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Descriptions
Effective in describing landscapes or natural elements, suggesting flowing, organic movement.
The vast wheat field undulated under the caress of the wind.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Imagery
Use it to create a visual effect of smooth, wave-like movements in the reader's mind.
The curtain undulated as a gentle breeze slipped through the open window.
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney:...
above the cloud layer and below the cloud layer differ significantly, and in the middle, in between, you get this undulating of the air, and if the difference in those speeds is just right, the tops of the undulations curl over in these beautiful breaking wave-like vortices. All right. Those are rarer clouds than the cirrus,
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Safari Live - Day 234 PIPE...
trucks for both it's gonna help us a lot because we can kind of get around that area and hopefully we'll be able to find these two somewhere in that it's a very very tricky section that's Herbie's in at the moments is big undulating drainage lines which is perfect for a leopard but not ideal for us and our
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The emergence of "4D...
change flow rate or maybe even undulate like peristaltic s-- to move the water themselves so this is an expensive pumps or valves this is a completely programmable and adaptive pipe on its own so I want to remind you today of the harsh realities of assembly in our world this is complex things built with
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Cloudy with a chance of...
significantly and in the middle in between you get this undulating of the air and if the difference in those speeds is just right the tops of the undulations curl over in these beautiful breaking wave-like vortices all right those are rarer clouds than the Cirrus but they're not that rare if you look up
Video examples
The emergence of "4D...
to change capacity or change flow rate, or maybe even undulate like peristaltics to move the water themselves. So this isn't expensive pumps or valves. This is a completely programmable and adaptive pipe on its own. So I want to remind you today of the harsh realities of assembly in our world.
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Flying Snakes... and...
up a tree like this many snakes are able to use their belly scales to push against tree bark allowing them to undulate upwards know what makes this tree snake so unusual is its interest in well one might say passion for becoming
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Camille Seaman: Photos...
is their movement, the way they swirl and spin and undulate, with their lava lamp-like mammatus clouds. They become lovely monsters. When I'm photographing them, I cannot help but remember my grandfather's lesson.
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Flying Snake Hunts...
are able to use their belly scales to push against tree bark allowing them to undulate upwards no what makes this tree snake so unusual is its interest in well one might say passion for becoming
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Why I think inside the...
spitting clouds out of a Ganesh like trunk and her tail undulates through an analog mesh underworld catching on fire at the back of the volcano and terminating at a cycloptic
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Dolphins Use Stingrays...
the ray seems to have found something undulating its wing-like fins it's trying to flush out hidden prey
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney:...
above the cloud layer and below the cloud layer differ significantly, and in the middle, in between, you get this undulating of the air, and if the difference in those speeds is just right, the tops of the undulations curl over in these beautiful breaking wave-like vortices. All right. Those are rarer clouds than the cirrus,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 234 PIPE...
trucks for both it's gonna help us a lot because we can kind of get around that area and hopefully we'll be able to find these two somewhere in that it's a very very tricky section that's Herbie's in at the moments is big undulating drainage lines which is perfect for a leopard but not ideal for us and our
Video examples
The emergence of "4D...
change flow rate or maybe even undulate like peristaltic s-- to move the water themselves so this is an expensive pumps or valves this is a completely programmable and adaptive pipe on its own so I want to remind you today of the harsh realities of assembly in our world this is complex things built with
Video examples
Cloudy with a chance of...
significantly and in the middle in between you get this undulating of the air and if the difference in those speeds is just right the tops of the undulations curl over in these beautiful breaking wave-like vortices all right those are rarer clouds than the Cirrus but they're not that rare if you look up
Video examples
The emergence of "4D...
to change capacity or change flow rate, or maybe even undulate like peristaltics to move the water themselves. So this isn't expensive pumps or valves. This is a completely programmable and adaptive pipe on its own. So I want to remind you today of the harsh realities of assembly in our world.
Video examples
Flying Snakes... and...
up a tree like this many snakes are able to use their belly scales to push against tree bark allowing them to undulate upwards know what makes this tree snake so unusual is its interest in well one might say passion for becoming
Video examples
Camille Seaman: Photos...
is their movement, the way they swirl and spin and undulate, with their lava lamp-like mammatus clouds. They become lovely monsters. When I'm photographing them, I cannot help but remember my grandfather's lesson.
Video examples
Flying Snake Hunts...
are able to use their belly scales to push against tree bark allowing them to undulate upwards no what makes this tree snake so unusual is its interest in well one might say passion for becoming
Video examples
Why I think inside the...
spitting clouds out of a Ganesh like trunk and her tail undulates through an analog mesh underworld catching on fire at the back of the volcano and terminating at a cycloptic
Video examples
Dolphins Use Stingrays...
the ray seems to have found something undulating its wing-like fins it's trying to flush out hidden prey
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Quote examples
Terrence Malick
American Director
It was in Austin that I had the idea for 'Days of Heaven.' I found myself alone for a summer in the town I had left as a high school student. There were those green, undulating hills, and this very beautiful river, the Colorado. The place is inspired and inspiring.
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Janet Echelman
American Artist
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.
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Stephen Rodrick
American Journalist
Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.
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Frank Waters
American Writer
The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
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Terrence Malick
American Director
It was in Austin that I had the idea for 'Days of Heaven.' I found myself alone for a summer in the town I had left as a high school student. There were those green, undulating hills, and this very beautiful river, the Colorado. The place is inspired and inspiring.
Quote examples
Janet Echelman
American Artist
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.
Quote examples
Stephen Rodrick
American Journalist
Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.
Quote examples
Frank Waters
American Writer
The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
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