different between waking vs awake

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?k??/
• Rhymes: -e?k??

Adjective

waking (comparative more waking, superlative most waking)

1. Occurring during wakefulness.
   • 1855 March, Caroline Chesebro’, “Kit”, in Graham’s Magazine, Volume 46, Number 3, page 230:

     The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.

   • a. 2000, “Alice” (possible pseudonym), quoted in Fred Penzel, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well, Oxford University Press (2000), ?ISBN, page page 263:

     Counting occupied my every waking thought.

   • 2003, Moshe Gelbein (translator), Chaim Friedlander (author), quoted in Moshe Gelbein (translator), Meir Munk (author), Searching for Comfort: Coping with Grief, Mesorah Publications, ?ISBN, page 80:

     It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”

Usage notes

• This adjective most often occurs in phrases such as “every waking moment”, “every waking hour”, “every waking breath”, and so on, the sense being roughly “at all times”. Such phrases are often used together with possessives, such as in “her every waking moment” or “my every waking thought”.

Verb

waking

1. present participle of wake

Noun

waking (plural wakings)

1. The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.
   • 1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)

     […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.

Anagrams

• gawkin', kawing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??we?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).

Adjective

awake (comparative more awake, superlative most awake) (predicative only)

1. Not asleep; conscious.

   Synonyms: conscious, lucid, wide awake; see also Thesaurus:awake

   Antonyms: asleep, unconscious; see also Thesaurus:asleep

2. (figuratively, by extension) Alert, aware.

   Synonyms: wary, woke; see also Thesaurus:vigilant

   Antonyms: heedless, oblivious

   • 1965 June, Martin Luther King, Jr., "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution"[1]:

     And so we see in our own world a revolution of rising expectations. The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution.

Derived terms

• half-awake
• unawake

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English ?wacan and ?wacian, equivalent to a- +? wake.

Verb

awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (rare) awaked, past participle awoken or (rare) awaked or (rare) awoke or (rare) awaken)

1. (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.

   Synonyms: awaken, wake up; see also Thesaurus:wake

   Antonyms: fall asleep; see also Thesaurus:fall asleep

2. (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

   Synonyms: bring round, cry, wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken

   Antonym: put to sleep

   • 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia

     [This ant] I ?uffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural po?ture, remained movele?s about an hour; but then , upon a ?udden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ?leep, it ?uddenly reviv'd and ran away...

3. (transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
   • 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England

     The national spirit again awoke.

Derived terms

• awaker

Usage notes

For many speakers, this verb is commonly conflated with awaken (and, in such cases, lends some conjugational elements to it). See the usage notes at awaken for more details.

Translations

See also

• awake to
• awaken
• wake
• wake up
• woke

References

• “awake”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “awake” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "awake" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
• awake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• awake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.