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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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shaku
English
Etymology
A romanization of Japanese ? (shaku). Doublet of chi and chek.
Noun
shaku (plural shaku or shakus)
- The Japanese foot, a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10 sun or 1/10 of a j?, now standardized as equal to 10/33 of a meter.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:shaku.
Synonyms
- Japanese foot
See also
- ken
References
- De Visser, M.W. (2003) Dragon in China and Japan, ?ISBN
- Engel, Heino (1989) Measure and Construction of the Japanese House, ?ISBN
- Field, Norma (1997) From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo, ?ISBN
- Jackson, David (2002) Japanese Cabinetry: The Art & Craft of Tansu, ?ISBN
- Masaaki, Hatsumi (2006) Japanese Sword Fighting: Secrets of the Samurai, ?ISBN
- Mezur, Katherine (2005) Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness, ?ISBN
- Tarver, D.E. (2004) The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi, ?ISBN
- Wheeler, Post (2006) The Sacred Scriptures of The Japanese, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- Husak, Shuka, Ushak, shuka
Japanese
Romanization
shaku
- R?maji transcription of ???
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