What does shaking mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shakingnoun

    the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements

  2. shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitationnoun

    a shaky motion

    "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe"

Wiktionary

  1. shakingnoun

    A movement that shakes.

ChatGPT

  1. shaking

    Shaking refers to the act of moving or causing to move up and down or back and forth with quick, forceful, often trembling movements. It can be caused by excitement, fear, cold, or physical exertion. It can also describe the action of mixing or blending something by moving it rapidly or forcefully.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Shaking

    of Shake

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'shaking' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4842

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shaking in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shaking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of shaking in a Sentence

  1. Asmi Fathelbab:

    It was disgusting, i ran the youth program in the building and with that comes bending down and talking to small children. You have no idea what it was like to stand up and feel that behind you. I couldn’t scream because I didn’t want to scare the child in front of me. It left me shaking.

  2. Rick Tyler:

    If Rubio has a better picture of him shaking hands with Barack Obama I'm happy to swap it out, two days before presidential primary in South Carolina, they want to talk about a picture we used.

  3. Leo Khoury:

    I just start shaking if I see anybody walk inside the restaurant, I just get scared.

  4. 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.

  5. Chris Goldfinger:

    You're going to have three to five minutes of shaking, and if you're used to earthquakes in California, they typically last 15 to 30 seconds and before you are really sure of what is happening, it is over.

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