shake
IPA: ʃˈeɪk
noun
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- 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.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (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.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- A shock or disturbance.
- A surname.
verb
- (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.
- (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
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Examples of "shake" in Sentences
- I shake the milkshake.
- The point of the example is to shake us up.
- The head shakes in unison with the rhythm of the gait.
- Slide the lid over it and shake the spider into the garden.
- At the conclusion of the match, shake hands and congratulate opponent.
- In the darkness, the building shakes, and the narrator is knocked unconscious.
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