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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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tic
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French tic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: tick
Noun
tic (plural tics)
- A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
- (by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
- (abbreviation, informal) ticket
Translations
Verb
tic (third-person singular simple present tics, present participle ticcing, simple past and past participle ticced)
- (intransitive) To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.
Translations
See also
- tic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- CTI, ICT, TCI, cit, cit.
Acholi
Noun
tic
- work
Italian
Noun
tic m (invariable)
- tic, twitch
Latvian
Verb
tic
- 3rd person singular present indicative form of tic?t
- 3rd person plural present indicative form of tic?t
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of tic?t
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of tic?t
Spanish
Noun
tic m (plural tics)
- tic (movement)
- tick (written mark)
- tick (sound)
Related terms
- tictac/tic-tac
- tictaquear
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