undulate

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My work undulates between email, text editors, Perl, C#, and whatever I do while SSH'ed into servers.

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Quick take

stir up (water) so as to form ripples

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of undulate gathered in one view.

verb

stir up (water) so as to form ripples

verb

occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past"

verb

move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for undulate.

verb

stir up (water) so as to form ripples

See also: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle

verb

occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past"

verb

move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"

verb

increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves; "The singer's voice undulated"

adjective

having a wavy margin and rippled surface

Example sentences

My work undulates between email, text editors, Perl, C#, and whatever I do while SSH'ed into servers.

The bottom of a cycle can undulate "sideways" a bit over a period of weeks, months, years, decades with few discernible entry or exit points.

Well, in botany is more a question of: "are the leaves entire, serrulate, serrate, double serrate, dentate, crenulate, crenate, toothed, spiny or undulated?".

Career capabilities and recognition often undulate based on many factors.

It's actually just there, the wave undulates and that creates the perception of motion, but really the thing you see moving is just a visual effect on the surface of a field the size of the entire lake.

"Squigglevision is a patented method of computer animation in which the outlines of shapes are made to wiggle and undulate, emulating the effect of sketchily hand-drawn animation.