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USF Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

swell vs wave and P.S.s!

Would you please answer my questions? Thanks.
I saw this phrases, and I guessed, by looking up in dictionaries, that "swell" means "wave". But I was wondered why they didn't use "wave" in the first place.
"Huge Winter Swell Forecast "

P.S. which one is correct:
But I was wondered why they didn't use "wave" in the first place.
But I was wondered why they haven't used "wave" in the first place.

P.S. 2 (Emotion: stick out tongue sorry just happened, I knew it would've been better if I had asked P.S.s in other posts): What if I used passive in there?
But I was wondered why "wave" wasn't used in the first place.
But I was wondered why they haven't been used "wave" in the first place. (which I think it is unlikely correct in here)
  

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This picture's title is "swell lines". Does that mean puffy lines, to illustrate 3-Dimensionalize (made up verb) shape of the lines, or it literally meant wave lines?

— USF

  • This picture's title is "swell lines".
  • Does that mean puffy lines, to illustrate 3-Dimensionalize (made up verb) shape of the lines, or it literally meant wave lines?
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This picture's title is "swell lines". Does that mean puffy lines, to illustrate 3-Dimensionalize (made up verb) shape of the lines, or it literally meant wave lines?
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Could anybody please answer? Emotion: thinking
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Chambers says a swell is "a heaving of the sea without waves". I don't think that fits your picture where are definite waves and they look like they're heading for the shore.

But I wondered why they didn't use "wave" in the first place.
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But I wondered why they hadn't used "wave" in the first place.
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But I was wonder
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UltimatePedantChambers says a swell is "a heaving of the sea without waves". I don't think that fits your picture where are definite waves and they look like they're heading for the shore.
Thank you very much for the answer. But if you Google "swell", you'll see a lot of "wave"s. Do you have any idea, why?
UltimatePedantBut I wondered w
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I think it indicates that a swell is actually a type of wave motion, where the water is not moving significantly in a direction. I got the impression from the dictionaries that a water wave is more specialised than the scientific definition of a wave. I don't think "swell" describes the situation your photograph.
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Cambridge : swel/ noun WAVES 1. the slow up and down movement of the sea with large but smooth waves
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