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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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start
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st??t/
- (General American) enPR: stärt, IPA(key): /st??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Etymology 1
From Middle English stert, from the verb sterten (“to start, startle”). See below.
Noun
start (plural starts)
- The beginning of an activity.
- The movie was entertaining from start to finish.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- He woke with a start.
- 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla
- The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- 2009, Liz Primeau, Steven A. Frowine, Gardening Basics For Canadians For Dummies
- You generally see nursery starts at garden centres in mid to late spring. Small annual plants are generally sold in four-packs or larger packs, with each cell holding a single young plant.
- 2009, Liz Primeau, Steven A. Frowine, Gardening Basics For Canadians For Dummies
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- to get, or have, the start
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? German: Start
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English sterten (“to leap up suddenly, rush out”), from Old English styrtan (“to leap up, start”), from Proto-West Germanic *sturtijan (“to startle, move, set in motion”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian stirta (“to fall down, tumble”), Middle Dutch sterten (“to rush, fall, collapse”) (Dutch storten), Old High German sturzen (“to hurl, plunge, turn upside down”) (German stürzen), Old High German sterzan (“to be stiff, protrude”). More at stare.
Verb
start (third-person singular simple present starts, present participle starting, simple past and past participle started)
- (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
- To set in motion.
- April 2, 1716, Joseph Addison, Freeholder No. 30
- I was some years ago engaged in conversation with a fashionable French Abbe, upon a subject which the people of that kingdom love to start in discourse.
- April 2, 1716, Joseph Addison, Freeholder No. 30
- To begin.
- To initiate operation of a vehicle or machine.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- 1674, William Temple, letter to The Countess of Essex
- Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.
- 1674, William Temple, letter to The Countess of Essex
- To set in motion.
- (intransitive) To begin an activity.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
- (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- I start as from some dreadful dream.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- Keep your soul to the work when it is ready to start aside.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXXI:
- [...] The tempest's mocking elf / Points to the shipman thus the unseen shelf / He strikes on, only when the timbers start.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, Scene i[2]:
- [...]Upon malicious bravery dost thou come / To start my quiet?
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, Scene i[2]:
- (transitive) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises
- One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternon.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises
- (intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- 2010, Brian Glanville, The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to South Africa 2010, London: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN, page 361:
- The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.
- 2010, Brian Glanville, The Story of the World Cup: The Essential Companion to South Africa 2010, London: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN, page 361:
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To start one's periods (menstruation).
Usage notes
- In uses 1.1 and 1.2 this is a catenative verb that takes the infinitive (to) or the gerund (-ing) form. There is no change in meaning.
- For more information, see Appendix:English catenative verbs
Antonyms
- stop
- end
Derived terms
- astart
- start-up
- starter
Descendants
- ? Dutch: starten
- ? German: starten
- ? Norman: stèrter
- ? French: starter
- ? Icelandic: starta
- ? Faroese: starta
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: starte
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: starta
- ? Swedish: starta
- ? Danish: starte
- ? Slovak: štartova?
Translations
See also
Etymology 3
From Middle English stert, start, from Old English steort, stert, from Proto-Germanic *stertaz (“tail”). Cognate with Dutch staart (“tail”), German Sterz (“tail, handle”), Swedish stjärt (“tail, arse”).
Noun
start (plural starts)
- A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
Derived terms
- redstart
Anagrams
- Strat, Tarts, strat, tarts
Breton
Adjective
start
- firm, strong
- difficult
Derived terms
- startijenn
Further reading
- Herve Ar Bihan, Colloquial Breton, pages 16 and 268: define "start" as "hard, difficult, firm"
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start
- start
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[3], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?start]
Noun
start m
- start (beginning point of a race)
Declension
Related terms
- p?ipravit se, pozor, start
See also
- cíl m
Further reading
- start in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- start in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start c (singular definite starten, plural indefinite starter)
- start
Inflection
Verb
start
- imperative of starte
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?rt/
- Hyphenation: start
- Rhymes: -?rt
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start m (plural starts, diminutive startje n)
- start
Derived terms
- pikstart
- startbaan
- starten
- startpunt
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
start
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of starten
- imperative of starten
German
Verb
start
- singular imperative of starten
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English start.
Noun
start m (definite singular starten, indefinite plural starter, definite plural startene)
- a start
Derived terms
- omstart
- startsted
Etymology 2
Verb
start
- imperative of starte
References
- “start” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?rt/
Noun
start m (definite singular starten, indefinite plural startar, definite plural startane)
- a start (beginning)
Verb
start
- imperative of starta
Derived terms
- omstart
References
- “start” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /start/
Noun
start m inan
- (sports) start (the beginning of a race)
- (aviation) takeoff
- Z niecierpliwo?ci? czeka?am na start samolotu do Pary?a.
- I was impatiently waiting for the plane to Paris to take off. (=for its take-off)
- Z niecierpliwo?ci? czeka?am na start samolotu do Pary?a.
- participation
- Wi?kszo?? kibiców ucieszy?a si?, ?e zdecydowa? si? on na start w zawodach.
- Most fans were happy to hear that he had decided to take part in the competition.
- Wi?kszo?? kibiców ucieszy?a si?, ?e zdecydowa? si? on na start w zawodach.
Declension
Derived terms
- startowa? (“to start”, verb)
- startowy (“tarting, take-off”, adjective)
- falstart m (“false start”, noun)
Further reading
- start in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
Noun
start c
- a start; a beginning (of a race)
- the starting (of an engine)
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- starta
- starter
- startare
References
- start in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- ratts, trast
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from English start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sta?t]
- Hyphenation: start
Noun
start (definite accusative start?, plural startlar)
- start
Usage notes
As Turks are generally not easily spelling consonants at the beginning of a syllable, this word may often be spelled as [s?ta?t].
Declension
Antonyms
- fini?
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