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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.
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- (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.
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- (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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shaka
English
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Shaka is not a word in the Hawaiian language, which lacks the /?/ sound.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????k?/
- Rhymes: -??k?
Noun
shaka (plural shakas)
- A greeting gesture in which the thumb and little finger are extended while curling the three middle fingers in a semi-fist. Used to express a variety of positive meanings including "all right", "hello" and "goodbye".
- 2008, December 27, photo caption, Reuters:
- US President-elect Obama flashes the 'shaka' before he greets a crowd […]
- 2008, December 27, photo caption, Reuters:
Usage notes
- Associated with Hawaii and with sports such as surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and skydiving.
Synonyms
- hang-loose sign
See also
- Shaka sign on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Khasa, Sakha, hakas, kasha
Albanian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (?aka, “joke”). Compare Turkish ?aka.
Noun
shaka f (indefinite plural shaka, definite singular shakaja, definite plural shakatë)
- joke, prank
- Synonyms: hokë, tallje, shpoti
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.ka/
- Homophones: shakas, shakât
Verb
shaka
- third-person singular past historic of shaker
Ladino
Etymology
From Turkish ?aka (“joke”).
Noun
shaka f (Latin spelling)
- joke (thing said to amuse)
Rwanda-Rundi
Verb
-sh?ka (infinitive gush?ka, perfective -sh?tse)
- want
- look for, seek
Swahili
Etymology
From Arabic ????? (šakk).
Pronunciation
Noun
shaka (n class, plural shaka) or shaka (ma class, plural mashaka)
- doubt
- worry
- (computing) error
Related terms
- -shuku
Swazi
Etymology
Borrowed from English shark.
Noun
shaka? 1a (plural boshaka 2a)
- shark
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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