Definitions for shake
ʃeɪkshake

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.3 / 3 votes

1. shingle, shakenoun

   building material used as siding or roofing

2. milkshake, milk shake, shakenoun

   frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream

3. trill, shakenoun

   a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it

4. handshake, shake, handshaking, handclaspnoun

   grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)

5. tremble, shiver, shakenoun

   a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement

6. wag, waggle, shakeverb

   causing to move repeatedly from side to side

7. shake, agitateverb

   move or cause to move back and forth

   "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking"

8. shake, didderverb

   move with or as if with a tremor

   "his hands shook"

9. judder, shakeverb

   shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively

   "The old engine was juddering"

10. rock, sway, shakeverb

    move back and forth or sideways

    "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet"

11. shakeverb

    undermine or cause to waver

    "my faith has been shaken"; "The bad news shook her hopes"

12. stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stirverb

    stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

    "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"

13. shake, shake off, throw off, escape fromverb

    get rid of

    "I couldn't shake the car that was following me"

14. shakeverb

    bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking

    "He was shaken from his dreams"; "shake the salt out of the salt shaker"

15. shakeverb

    shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state

    "shake one's head"; "She shook her finger at the naughty students"; "The old enemies shook hands"; "Don't shake your fist at me!"

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1. shakenoun

   The act of shaking something.

   The cat gave the mouse a shake.

2. shakenoun

   A milkshake.

3. shakenoun

   A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.

4. shakenoun

   Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.

5. shakenoun

   A thin shingle.

6. shakenoun

   A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.

7. shakenoun

   Instant, second. (Esp. in two shakes.)

8. shakeverb

   To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.

9. shakeverb

   To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.

   Shaking his head, he kept repeating "No, no, no".

10. shakeverb

    To disturb emotionally; to shock.

11. shakeverb

    To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).

    I can't shake the feeling that I forgot something.

12. shakeverb

    To move from side to side.

    She shook with grief.

13. shakeverb

    To shake hands.

    OK, let's shake on it.

14. shakeverb

    To dance.

    She was shaking it on the dance floor.

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

1. Shakenoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Concussion.

   If that thy fame with ev’ry toy be pos’d,
   ’Tis a thin web, which poisonous fancies make;
   But the great soldier’s honour was compos’d
   Of thicker stuff, which could endure a shake:
   Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest,
   A toy shunn’d cleanly passeth with thee best. George Herbert.

   The freeholder is the basis of all other titles: this is the substantial stock, without which they are no more than blossoms that would fall away with every shake of wind. Addison.

   2. Vibratory motion.

   Several of his countrymen probably lived within the shake of the earthquake, and the shadow of the eclipse, which are recorded by this author. Addison.

   3. Motion given and received.

   Our salutations were very hearty on both sides, consisting of many kind shakes of the hand. Addison.

2. To Shakeverb

   preterit, shook; part. pass. shaken, or shook.

   Etymology: sceacan , Saxon; shecken, Dutch.

   1. To put into a vibrating motion; to move with quick returns backwards and forwards; to agitate.

   Who honours not his father,
   Henry the fifth that made all France to quake,
   Shake he his weapon at us, and pass by. William Shakespeare.

   I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants. Zech. ii 9.

   I shook my lap and said, so God shake out every man from his house, even thus be he shaken out and emptied. Neh. v.

   The stars fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind. Rev. vi.

   He shook the sacred honours of his head:
   With terror trembled heav’n’s subsiding hill,
   And from his shaken curls ambrosial dews distil. Dryden.

   She first her husband on the poop espies,
   Shaking his hand at distance on the main;
   She took the sign, and shook her hand again. Dryden.

   2. To make to totter or tremble.

   The rapid wheels shake heav’n’s basis. John Milton.

   Let France acknowledge that her shaken throne
   Was once supported, sir, by you alone. Wentworth Dillon.

   3. To throw down by a violent motion.

   Macbeth is ripe for shaking, and the powers above
   Put on their instruments. William Shakespeare.

   The tyrannous breathing of the North
   Shakes all our buds from blowing. William Shakespeare.

   When ye depart, shake off the dust of your feet. Mat. x.

   He looked at his book, and, holding out his right leg, put it into such a quivering motion, that I thought he would have shaked it off. Tatler.

   4. To throw away; to drive off.

   ’Tis our first intent
   To shake all cares and business from our age,
   Conferring them on younger strengths, whilst we
   Unburthen’d crawl towards death. William Shakespeare.

   5. To weaken; to put in danger.

   When his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies, they persecuted his reputation. Francis Atterbury.

   6. To drive from resolution; to depress; to make afraid.

   A fly and constant knave, not to be shak’d. William Shakespeare, Cymb.

   This respite shook
   The bosom of my conscience. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   Be not soon shaken in mind, or troubled, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 2 Thes. ii. 2.

   Not my firm faith
   Can by his fraud be shaken or seduc’d. John Milton.

   7. To Shake hands. This phrase, from the action used among friends at meeting and parting, sometimes signifies to join with, but commonly to take leave of.

   With the slave,
   He ne’er shook hands, nor bid farewel to him,
   ’Till he unseam’d him from the nape to th’ chops. William Shakespeare.

   Nor can it be safe to a king to tarry among them who are shaking hands with their allegiance, under pretence of laying faster hold of their religion. Charles I .

   8. To Shake off. To rid himself of; to free from; to divest of.

   Be pleas’d that I shake off these names you give me:
   Antonio never yet was thief or pirate. William Shakespeare.

   If I could shake off but one seven years,
   From these old arms and legs,
   I’d with thee every foot. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   Say, sacred bard! what could bestow
   Courage on thee, to soar so high?
   Tell me, brave friend! what help’d thee so
   To shake off all mortality? Edmund Waller.

   Him I reserved to be answered by himself, after I had shaken off the lesser and more barking creatures. Edward Stillingfleet.

   Can I want courage for so brave a deed?
   I’ve shook it off: my soul is free from fear. Dryden.

   Here we are free from the formalities of custom and respect: we may shake off the haughty impertinent. Collier.

   How does thy beauty smooth
   The face of war, and make even horrour smile!
   At sight of thee my heart shakes off its sorrows. Addison.

3. To Shakeverb

   1. To be agitated with a vibratory motion.

   Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. Job xli. 29.

   2. To totter.3. To tremble; to be unable to keep the body still.

   Thy sight, which should
   Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts,
   Constrains them weep, and shake with fear and sorrow. William Shakespeare.

   What said the wench, when he rose up again?
   —— Trembled and shook; for why, he stamp’d,
   As if the vicar meant to cozen him. William Shakespeare.

   A shaking through their limbs they find,
   Like leaves saluted by the wind. Edmund Waller.

   4. To be in terrour; to be deprived of firmness.

   He short of succours, and in deep despair,
   Shook at the dismal prospect of the war. John Dryden, Æn.

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1. Shake

   Shake, Rattle and Roll is a twelve bar blues-form song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his songwriting pseudonym of Charles E. Calhoun. It was originally recorded by Big Joe Turner and most successfully by Bill Haley & His Comets. The song as sung by Big Joe Turner is ranked number 127 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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1. shake

   A shake is a quick, back-and-forth movement or vibration of an object or a part of the body, typically resulting in a rhythmic action. It can refer to the act of shaking something physically or the sensation caused by rapid movements.

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1. Shake

   obs. p. p. of Shake

2. Shake

   to cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate

3. Shake

   fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of

4. Shake

   to give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music

5. Shake

   to move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree

6. Shakeverb

   to be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter

7. Shakenoun

   the act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation

8. Shakenoun

   a fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly

9. Shakenoun

   a fissure in rock or earth

10. Shakenoun

    a rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill

11. Shakenoun

    one of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart

12. Shakenoun

    a shook of staves and headings

13. Shakenoun

    the redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground

14. Etymology: [OE. shaken, schaken, AS. scacan, sceacan; akin to Icel. & Sw. skaka, OS. skakan, to depart, to flee. 161. Cf. Shock, v.]

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1. Shake

   Shake was an image compositing package used in the post-production industry. Shake was widely used in visual effects and digital compositing for film, video and commercials. Shake exposed its node graph architecture graphically. It enabled complex image processing sequences to be designed through the connection of effects "nodes" in a graphical workflow interface. This type of compositing interface allowed great flexibility, including the ability to modify the parameters of an earlier image processing step "in context". Many other compositing packages, such as Blender, eyeon Fusion, Nuke and Cineon, also used a similar node-based approach. Shake was available for Mac OS X and Linux. Support for Microsoft Windows and IRIX was discontinued in previous versions. On July 30, 2009, Apple discontinued Shake. No direct product replacement had been announced by Apple, but some features are now available in Final Cut Studio and Motion, such as the SmoothCam filter.

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1. Shake

   shāk, v.t. to move with quick, short motions: to agitate: to make to tremble: to threaten to overthrow: to cause to waver: to give a tremulous note to.—v.i. to be agitated: to tremble: to shiver: to lose firmness:—pa.t. shook, (B.) shāked; pa.p. shāk′en,—n. a rapid tremulous motion: a trembling or shivering: a concussion: a rent in timber, rock, &c.: (mus.) a rapid repetition of two notes: (slang) a brief instant.—n. Shake′down, a temporary bed, named from the original shaking down of straw for this purpose.—adj. Shāk′en, weakened, disordered.—ns. Shāk′er, one of a small communistic religious sect founded in Manchester about the middle of the 18th century, so nicknamed from a peculiar dance forming part of their religious service; Shake′-rag (obs.), a ragged fellow; Shāk′erism.—adv. Shāk′ily.—n. Shāk′iness.—adj. Shāk′y, in a shaky condition: feeble: (coll.) wavering, undecided: of questionable ability, solvency, or integrity: unsteady: full of cracks or clefts.—Shake down, or together, to make more compact by shaking; Shake hands, to salute by grasping the hand: (with) to bid farewell to; Shake off the dust from one's feet, to renounce all intercourse with; Shake the head, to move the head from side to side in token of reluctance, disapproval, &c.; Shake together (coll.), to get friendly with; Shake up, to restore to shape by shaking: (Shak.) to upbraid.—Great shakes (coll.), a thing of great account, something of value (usually 'No great shakes'). [A.S. sceacan, scacan.]

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1. Shake

   Shake is a mobile-first application that allows users to create, sign, and send, plain English and legally binding agreements from their phones. Shake was founded in 2012 by an experienced team of entrepreneurs and investors. They have decades of startup and executive leadership experience at companies such as Google, Spotify, AOL, BuzzFeed, and RRE Ventures.

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1. shakenoun

   Leftover marijuana from a large bag, usually small pieces that have shaken off the bud, thus the name.

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1. shake

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1. SHAKE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Shake is ranked #17337 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Shake surname appeared 1,630 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Shake.
   
   88.1% or 1,437 total occurrences were White.
   3.6% or 59 total occurrences were Asian.
   2.9% or 48 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.2% or 37 total occurrences were Black.
   2% or 33 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.9% or 16 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Arouse
   • Building Material
   • Change
   • Drink
   • Escape
   • Gesture
   • Move Back And Forth
   • Note
   • Reflex
   • Vibrate
   • Weaken

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'shake' in Verbs Frequency: #245

Anagrams for shake »

1. hakes

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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

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shake in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of shake in a Sentence

1. Ryan Pack:

   Only assholes shake hands for business, for show, good people shake hands because it's just to do so.

2. Tom Izzo:

   Not shaking hands, that's typical of our country right now, instead of solving the problem, let's make an excuse and let's see if we can just instead of, confronting and demanding that it changes, let's eliminate it so that we don't have those problems. Let's try to do that. That's perfect us right now, that's not perfect me. That's not happening here. So if some team doesn't want to shake hands, you're gonna see 15 of my guys walk down and shake air. We're going to shake air and I'm gonna to shake air and then we're gonna leave.

3. Mike Breard:

   It's like if you take a coke bottle and shake it up and all the drink fizzles up. But if you don't shake it up, you end up getting more to drink - choking has the same effect.

4. George Gordon Byron:

   There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

5. Thomas Jefferson:

   Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

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