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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Usage of undulate

Hi , can the word undulate be used in the following sentence

Team can perform the task in an undulate fashion.
  

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No, I cannot understand what you want to say in that sentence. Snakes and fish undulate, belly dancers undulate, share prices undulate, ocean waves undulate.

  • No, I cannot understand what you want to say in that sentence.
  • Snakes and fish undulate, belly dancers undulate, share prices undulate, ocean waves undulate.
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No, I cannot understand what you want to say in that sentence.

Snakes and fish undulate, belly dancers undulate, share prices undulate, ocean waves undulate.
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Never heard it. I see it only as a verb, not as an adjective. (The adjective is "undulating.")

You can perform something "in an undulating fashion."

The spectators in the stands could perform "the wave" in an undulating fashion.
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The adjective is "undulating", but it still doesn't make sense in your example.
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Sorry about the edit, Ivanhr. Emotion: embarrassed - A.

(I wonder what kind of a team this is?)
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AvangiSorry about the edit, Ivanhr. - A.
Don't worry about it, A. I, just like you, edit all the time.
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Hi, Thanks for the reply.

I have read it somewhere that - synonym of undalting is a "smooth"

So would like to know, whether word undalting can be used for it for the given scenario?

Will breif you the back ground of it :

Context: I provided my justification that my team is doing very good, and at last while summarizing i wish to know whether i can use the follow
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No. I told you 'No' in my first post. It cannot be used in that way.
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Anonymous"My team can perform the tasks in undulating fashion"
You're thinking of another word, meaning "in grand fashion," but I can't place it.

(meaning "unmatched," or "unexcelled" - something like that)
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Hi,

"My team can perform the tasks in undulating fashion"

This sounds to me like your team is dancing the hula.

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