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Shake

//ˈʃeɪk// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion. countable, uncountable
"The cat gave the mouse a shake."
2
causing to move repeatedly from side to side wordnet
3
A twitch, a spasm, a tremor. countable, plural-normally, uncountable
"And when the princely Perſean Diadem, Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head, And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death, In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:"
4
a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement wordnet
5
A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken. countable, uncountable
"The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it."

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grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) wordnet
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A milkshake. countable, uncountable
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a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it wordnet
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A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float. countable, uncountable
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frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream wordnet
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Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana. countable, uncountable
12
building material used as siding or roofing wordnet
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An adulterant added to cocaine powder. US, slang, uncountable
"[…] most suppliers will allow up to 120 grams of shake to a kilo, or 12 percent; kilo-level buyers are usually unhappy if they find more."
14
A thin shingle. countable, uncountable
15
A crack or split between the growth rings in wood. countable, uncountable
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A fissure in rock or earth. countable, uncountable
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A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc. countable, uncountable
18
Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.) countable, informal, uncountable
"“And do you realize that in a few shakes I've got to show up at dinner and have Mrs Cream being very, very kind to me? It hurts the pride of the Woosters, Jeeves.”"
19
One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. countable, uncountable
"Empty casks are[…]taken to pieces, and the staves closely packed up in a cylindrical form, constituting what are called shakes or packs"
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A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. countable, uncountable
21
In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato. countable, uncountable
"A Signora Rossinuola, with the face of a goddess, and the voice of an angel, made her first curtsy that evening to the Neapolitans. She was received with the most rapturous applause. Nothing was heard of next day but her shake and her smile."
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A shook of staves and headings. countable, uncountable
23
The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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A shock or disturbance. countable, uncountable
"As long as I had seen Mr Holdsworth in the rooms at the little inn at Hensleydale, where I had been accustomed to look upon him as an invalid, I had not been aware of the visible shake his fever had given to his health."
25
An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds. countable, historical, uncountable
"Most of the fission energy was released in the last few generations, so if the device blew itself apart before about fifty-seven shakes had elapsed, […]"

Verb

1
To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly. ergative, transitive
"The earthquake shook the building."
2
move with or as if with a tremor wordnet
3
To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval. transitive
"Shaking his head, he kept repeating “No, no, no”."
4
undermine or cause to waver wordnet
5
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion. transitive
"to shake fruit down from a tree"

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bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking wordnet
7
To disturb emotionally; to shock. transitive
"Her father’s death shook her terribly."
8
shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state wordnet
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To lose, evade, or get rid of (something). idiomatic, transitive
"I can’t shake the feeling that I forgot something."
10
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of wordnet
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To move from side to side. intransitive
"She shook with grief."
12
move back and forth or sideways wordnet
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To shake hands. intransitive, usually
"OK, let’s shake on it."
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move or cause to move back and forth wordnet
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To dance. intransitive
"She was shaking it on the dance floor."
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shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively wordnet
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To give a tremulous tone to; to trill. transitive
"to shake a note in music"
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get rid of wordnet
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To threaten to overthrow. figuratively, transitive
"The experience shook my religious belief."
20
To be agitated; to lose firmness. figuratively, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English schaken, from Old English sċeacan, sċacan (“to shake”), from Proto-West Germanic *skakan, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, swing, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (“to jump, move”). Cognate with Scots schake, schack (“to shake”), West Frisian schaekje (“to shake”), Dutch schaken (“to elope, make clean, shake”), Low German schaken (“to move, shift, push, shake”) and schacken (“to shake, shock”), Old Norse skaka (“to shake”), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (“to shake”), Swedish skaka (“to shake”), Danish skage (“to shake”), Dutch schokken (“to shake, shock”), Russian скака́ть (skakátʹ, “to jump”). More at shock.

Etymology 2

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