shake

English Online Dictionary. What means shake‎? What does shake mean?

English

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 shaka”), 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk
• Homophones: sheik, sheikh (one pronunciation)

Verb

shake (third-person singular simple present shakes, present participle shaking, simple past shook or (rare) shaked or (slang) shooketh, past participle shaken or (dialectal) shook)

1. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
2. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
3. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
5. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.

   Synonym: traumatize
6. (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).

7. (intransitive) To move from side to side.

   Synonyms: shiver, tremble
8. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.

9. (intransitive) To dance.

10. (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.

11. (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
12. (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

shake (countable and uncountable, plural shakes)

1. The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.

2. (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
3. (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
4. A milkshake.
5. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
6. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
7. (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
8. (building material) A thin shingle.
9. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
10. A fissure in rock or earth.
11. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
12. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
13. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
14. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
15. (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
16. A shook of staves and headings.
17. (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
18. A shock or disturbance.
19. (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
    • 2003, Ruth H. Howes, ‎Caroline L. Herzenberg, Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project (page 97)

      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, […]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (crack or split in wood): knot

References

Anagrams

• Hakes, hakes

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shake. First attested in 1966.

Noun

shake m (uncountable)

1. shake (act of shaking or being shaken)
2. (dance) shake (a type of dance)

Japanese

Romanization

shake

1. Rōmaji transcription of しゃけ
2. Rōmaji transcription of シャケ

Polish

Alternative forms

• szejk

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂɛjk/
• Rhymes: -ɛjk
• Syllabification: shake
• Homophone: szejk

Noun

shake m inan

1. milkshake, shake (milk and ice cream beverage)

   Synonym: koktajl mleczny

Declension

Further reading

• shake in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeik/ [ˈʃei̯k]
• Rhymes: -eik

Noun

shake m (plural shakes)

1. shake (drink)