Definitions for Wake
weɪkwake

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. aftermath, wake, backwashnoun

   the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)

   "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"

2. Wake Island, Wakenoun

   an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

3. wake, backwashnoun

   the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward

   "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe"

4. wake, viewingverb

   a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial

   "there's no weeping at an Irish wake"

5. wakeverb

   be awake, be alert, be there

6. wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, wakenverb

   stop sleeping

   "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"

7. inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire upverb

   arouse or excite feelings and passions

   "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred"

8. wakeverb

   make aware of

   "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"

9. awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouseverb

   cause to become awake or conscious

   "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wakenoun

   A number of vultures assembled together.

2. Etymology: Probably, from vǫk (> Danish våge, Icelandic vök).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wakenoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. The feast of the dedication of the church, formerly kept by watching all night.

   Fill oven ful of flawnes, Ginnie passe not for sleepe,
   Tomorrow thy father his wake-daie will keepe. Thomas Tusser.

   The droiling peasant scarce thinks there is any world beyond his village, nor gaiety beyond that of a wake. Gov. of Tongue.

   Putting all the Grecian actors down,
   And winning at a wake their parsley crown. Dryden.

   Sometimes the vulgar will of mirth partake,
   And have excessive doings at their wake. William King, Art of Cook.

   2. Vigils; state of forbearing sleep.

   By dimpled brook, and fountain brim,
   The wood-nymphs deckt with daisies trim,
   Their merry wakes and pastimes keep:
   What hath night to do with sleep? John Milton.

2. To Wakeverb

   Etymology: weccian , Saxon; wecken, Dutch.

   1. To rouse from sleep.

   They wak’d each other, and I stood and heard them. Sha.

   The waggoners that curse their standing teams,
   Wou’d wake e’en drowsy Drusus from his dreams. Dryden.

   Shock, who thought she slept too long,
   Leap’d up, and wak’d his mistress with his tongue. Alexander Pope.

   2. To excite; to put in motion, or action.

   Prepare war, wake up the mighty men; let them come up. Joel iii. 9.

   Thine, like Amphion’s hand, had wak’d the stone,
   And from destruction call’d the rising town;
   Nor could he burn so fast, as thou couldst build. Matthew Prior.

   What you’ve said,
   Has wak’d a thought in me, which may be lucky. Nicholas Rowe.

   To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
   To raise the genius, and to mend the heart. Prol. to Cato.

   3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death.

   To second life,
   Wak’d in the renovation of the just. John Milton.

3. To WAKEverb

   Etymology: wakan, Gothick; wacian , Saxon; waecken, Dutch.

   1. To watch; not to sleep.

   All night she watch’d, ne once a-down would lay
   Her dainty limbs in her sad dreriment,
   But praying still did wake, and waking did lament. Edmund Spenser.

   The father waketh for the daughter, and the care for her taketh away sleep. Ecclus. xlii. 9.

   Thou holdest mine eyes waking. Ps. lxxvii. 4.

   In the valley of Jehoshaphat,
   The judging God shall close the book of fate;
   And there the last assizes keep,
   For those who wake, and those who sleep. Dryden.

   I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. John Locke.

   Though wisdom wakes, suspicion sleeps. John Milton.

   2. To be roused from sleep.

   Each tree stirr’d appetite, whereat I wak’d. John Milton.

   3. To cease to sleep.

   The sisters awaked from dreams, which flattered them with more comfort, than their waking would consent to. Philip Sidney.

   Come, thou powerful God,
   And thy leaden charming rod,
   Dipt in the Lethean lake,
   O’er his watchful temples shake,
   Lest he should sleep, and never wake. John Denham.

   4. To be put in action; to be excited.

   Gentle airs to fan the earth now wak’d. John Milton.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wake

   In a general sense, a wake refers to the trail left behind a moving object as it passes through a fluid medium, typically water or air. It can also refer to the disturbed or turbulent area of fluid left behind by the passage of a boat, aircraft, or any other object.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wakenoun

   the track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army

2. Wakeverb

   to be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep

3. Wakeverb

   to sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel

4. Wakeverb

   to be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up

5. Wakeverb

   to be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active

6. Wakeverb

   to rouse from sleep; to awake

7. Wakeverb

   to put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite

8. Wakeverb

   to bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive

9. Wakeverb

   to watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body

10. Wakenoun

    the act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake

11. Wakenoun

    the state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil

12. Wakenoun

    an annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess

13. Wakenoun

    the sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish

14. Etymology: [Originally, an open space of water srrounded by ice, and then, the passage cut through ice for a vessel, probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. vk a hole, opening in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage, perhaps akin to E. humid.]

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1. WAKE

   In cryptography, WAKE is a stream cipher designed by David Wheeler in 1993. WAKE stands for Word Auto Key Encryption. The cipher works in cipher feedback mode, generating keystream blocks from previous ciphertext blocks. WAKE uses an S-box with 256 entries of 32-bit words. The cipher is fast, but vulnerable to chosen plaintext and chosen ciphertext attacks.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wake

   wāk, v.i. to cease from sleep: to lie awake: (B.) to watch: to be roused up, active, or vigilant: to return to life: (Shak.) to hold a late revel: to keep vigil.—v.t. to rouse from sleep: to keep vigil over: to excite, disturb: to reanimate:—pa.t. and pa.p. waked or woke.—n. act of waking: feast of the dedication of a church, formerly kept by watching all night: sitting up of persons with a corpse.—adj. Wake′ful, being awake: indisposed to sleep: vigilant.—adv. Wake′fully.—n. Wake′fulness.—v.t. and v.i. Wā′ken, to wake or awake: to be awake.—ns. Wake′ner, one who or that which wakens; Wake′ning, act of one who wakens; (Scots law) revival of an action; Wā′ker, one who wakes.—adj. Wake′rife (Scot.), wakeful.—ns. Wake′-time, time during which one is awake; Wā′king.—adj. being awake: rousing from sleep: passed in the waking state. [A.S. wacan, to be born, also wacian, to waken (cf. weccan, Ger. wecken). Cf. Wait, Watch.]

2. Wake

   wāk, n. the streak of smooth water left in the track of a ship: hence (fig.) 'in the wake of,' in the train of, immediately after. [Ice. vök, a hole in the ice, vökr, moist. The root is seen in L. humēre, to be moist, Gr. hugros, moist.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wake

   The transient, generally smooth, track impressed on the surface-water by a ship's progress. Its bearing is usually observed by the compass to discover the angle of lee-way. A ship is said to be in the wake of another, when she follows her upon the same track. Two distant objects observed at sea are termed in the wake of each other, when the view of the farthest off is intercepted by the one that is nearer. (See CROSSING A SHIP'S WAKE.)

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1. WAKE

   What does WAKE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the WAKE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WAKE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wake is ranked #11488 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Wake surname appeared 2,739 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Wake.
   
   76.8% or 2,105 total occurrences were White.
   14.7% or 404 total occurrences were Black.
   3.2% or 90 total occurrences were Asian.
   2.3% or 64 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2% or 57 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.6% or 19 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Pacific
   • Alert
   • Arouse
   • Change
   • Consequence
   • Island
   • Wave

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Wake' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2956

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Wake' in Nouns Frequency: #2674

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Wake' in Verbs Frequency: #472

Anagrams for Wake »

1. weak

2. weka

How to pronounce Wake?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Wake in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Wake in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Wake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Wake in a Sentence

1. Hue Frame:

   We think the attacks would be a wake up call for investors, who have failed to price in risk within the price of crude. Although global supply will contract in the near term, the United States has the ability to supply this contraction.

2. Sipho P Nkosi:

   Wake up every morning with a smile, spend a day with hope and go to bed with faith.

3. Patsy Stevenson:

   This has been happening for years and years with minority groups, and only when someone of a certain color or a certain look was arrested in that manner, like Patsy Stevenson, then certain people started to wake up to the idea of oh, hold on, this could happen to us.

4. Ramchandra Pawar:

   I wake early to get water from a well outside the village, as within three hours the water runs dry.

5. The Boss:

   I was handcuffed and thrown in jail, that took some doin’ … I didn’t wake up one morning, get on my motorcycle and say, ‘I’ll go to jail!

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Wake
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wake
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Wake
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Wake
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Wake
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Wake
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Wake
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html