shake
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English schaken, from Old English sċeacan, sċacan (“to shake”), from Proto-West Germanic *skakan, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“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”), Old Norse skaka (“to shake”), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (“to shake”), Swedish skaka (“to shake”), Danish skage (“to shake”), Dutch schokken (“to shake, shock”), Russian скака́ть (skakátʹ, “to jump”). More at shock.
Inflected forms:
form: shakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shook
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shaked
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
form: shooketh
pos: verb
tags: past
slang
form: shaken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shook
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: shooken
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
nonstandard
participle
past
form: shakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
transitive
examples: The earthquake shook the building.
He shook the can of soda for thirty seconds before delivering it to me, so that, when I popped it open, soda went everywhere.
Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and now seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
gloss: To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Shaking his head, he kept repeating “No, no, no”.
I became alſo a reproch vnto them: when they looked vpon me, they ſhaked their heads.
gloss: To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to shake fruit down from a tree
[…]Shake off the golden ſlumber of repoſe;[…]
But indeed this Shame was a bold Villain; I could ſcarce ſhake him out of my company; [...]
gloss: To disturb emotionally; to shock.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her father’s death shook her terribly.
He was shaken by what had happened.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
gloss: To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
transitive
examples: I can’t shake the feeling that I forgot something.
gloss: To move from side to side.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She shook with grief.
The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
gloss: To shake hands.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: OK, let’s shake on it.
gloss: To dance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She was shaking it on the dance floor.
gloss: To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to shake a note in music
gloss: To threaten to overthrow.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The experience shook my religious belief.
The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China.
gloss: To be agitated; to lose firmness.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
gloss: The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cat gave the mouse a shake.
She replied in the negative, with a shake of her head.
gloss: A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: And when the princely Perſean Diadem,
Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head,
And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death,
In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain
Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:
gloss: A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it.
gloss: A milkshake.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
examples: […] most suppliers will allow up to 120 grams of shake to a kilo, or 12 percent; kilo-level buyers are usually unhappy if they find more.
gloss: A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fissure in rock or earth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of wooden shingle originally made from split timber.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is a comet's tail of spilled cream across the cedar shakes and he will have to climb down for the turpentine.
gloss: Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: “And do you realize that in a few shakes I've got to show up at dinner and have Mrs Cream being very, very kind to me? It hurts the pride of the Woosters, Jeeves.”
gloss: One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Empty casks are[…]taken to pieces, and the staves closely packed up in a cylindrical form, constituting what are called shakes or packs
gloss: A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A Signora Rossinuola, with the face of a goddess, and the voice of an angel, made her first curtsy that evening to the Neapolitans. She was received with the most rapturous applause. Nothing was heard of next day but her shake and her smile.
gloss: A shook of staves and headings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: A shock or disturbance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Most of the fission energy was released in the last few generations, so if the device blew itself apart before about fifty-seven shakes had elapsed, […]
Synonyms: jiggle
quake
shag
shake
tremble
vibrate
wiggle
Related words: spasm
wriggle
sway
Derived words: ashake
atshake
beshake
bone-shaking
forshake
make shit shake
more than one can shake a stick at
more than you can shake a stick at
outshake
overshake
reshake
shakable
shakeable
shake a cloth in the wind
shake a leg
shake-a-leg
shake and bake
shake 'n bake
shake a stick at
shake down
shakefork
shake hands
shake hands with the unemployed
shake in one's boots
shake in one's shoes
shake it
shake it up
shake like a leaf
shaken baby syndrome
shake off
shake off the dust from one's feet
shake one's ass
shake one's elbow
shake one's head
shake one's hocks
shake on it
shakeout
shake out
shake over
shaker
Shaker
shakerag
shake the dust from one's feet
shake the dust from one's sandals
shake the pagoda tree
shake the plum tree
shake together
shake up
shakeworthy
shaking rat Kawasaki
shaky
shook
soul-shaking
toshake
tree shaking
unshakable
unshake
what's shaking
world-shaking
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: թափ տալ
roman: tʻapʻ tal
lang: Armenian
word: թափահարել
roman: tʻapʻaharel
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bulamaq
lang: Bulgarian
word: клатя
roman: klatja
lang: Dutch
word: schudden
lang: Finnish
word: pudistaa
lang: French
word: secouer
lang: Georgian
word: გაქნევა
roman: gakneva
lang: German
word: schütteln
lang: Italian
word: scuotere la testa
lang: Khmer
word: ធ្វើក្បាលងីងើ
roman: tvəə kbaal ŋii-ŋəə
lang: Norwegian
word: riste
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ryste
lang: Portuguese
word: sacudir a cabeça
lang: Portuguese
word: abanar
lang: Swedish
word: skaka (på)