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shake
English
Etymology
From Middle English schaken, from Old English s?eacan, s?acan (“to shake”). from Proto-Germanic *skakan? (“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”), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (“to shake”), Swedish skaka (“to shake”), Dutch schokken (“to shake, shock”), Russian ???????? (skakát?, “to jump”). More at shock.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?k/
- Rhymes: -e?k
- Homophones: sheik, sheikh (one pronunciation)
Verb
shake (third-person singular simple present shakes, present participle shaking, simple past shook or (rare) shaked or (slang) shooketh, past participle shaken or (dialectal) shook)
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- Synonym: traumatize
- (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- Synonyms: shiver, tremble
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive, figuratively) To threaten to overthrow.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
shake (plural shakes)
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- The cat gave the mouse a shake.
- She replied in the negative, with a shake of her head.
- A milkshake.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- A shock or disturbance.
- 1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
- 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.
- 1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- (crack or split in wood): knot
Anagrams
- Hakes, hakes
Japanese
Romanization
shake
- R?maji transcription of ???
- R?maji transcription of ???
Spanish
Noun
shake m (plural shakes)
- shake (drink)
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impact
English
Etymology
From Latin imp?ctus, perfect passive participle of imping? (“dash against, impinge”).
Pronunciation
- (noun): enPR: im?p?kt, IPA(key): /??mpækt/
- (verb): enPR: im-p?kt?, IPA(key): /?m?pækt/
- Rhymes: -ækt
Noun
impact (countable and uncountable, plural impacts)
- The striking of one body against another; collision.
- The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
- (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
- A significant or strong influence; an effect.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "impact": social, political, physical, positive, negative, good, bad, beneficial, harmful, significant, great, important, strong, big, small, real, huge, likely, actual, potential, devastating, disastrous, true, primary.
- The adposition generally used with "impact" is "on" (such as in last example in section above)
- There are English speakers who are so averse to the verb sense that they have become hypersensitive to the use of the figurative noun sense, with a low threshold for labeling such use as overuse (cliché). In defensive editing, the solution is to replace the figurative noun sense with effect and the verb sense with affect, which nearly always produces an acceptable result. (Rarely, a phrase such as "the impact of late effects" is better stetted to avoid "the effect of [...] effects".)
Derived terms
Related terms
- impinge
Translations
Verb
impact (third-person singular simple present impacts, present participle impacting, simple past and past participle impacted)
- (transitive) To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
- When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
- (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.
- The footprints of birds do not impact the soil in the way those of dinosaurs do.
- (transitive, proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.
- I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
- (transitive, rare) To stamp or impress onto something.
- Ideas impacted on the mind.
Usage notes
Some authorities object to the verb sense of impact meaning "to influence; to affect; to have an impact on". Although most verbification instances in English draw no prescriptive attention, a few do, including this one. To avoid annoying those readers who care, one can replace the verb sense with affect, which nearly always produces an acceptable result. See also the usage note for the noun sense.
Derived terms
- impaction
- impactor
Translations
French
Etymology
From Latin, see above.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.pakt/
Noun
impact m (plural impacts)
- (literally or figuratively) impact
Further reading
- “impact” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
From French impact, from Latin impactus.
Noun
impact n (plural impacturi)
- impact
Declension
impact From the web:
- what impacts your credit score
- what things impact your credit score
- what most impacts your credit score
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