Dictionary Definition
shake
Noun
1 building material used as siding or roofing
[syn: shingle]
2 frothy drink of milk and flavoring and
sometimes fruit or ice cream [syn: milkshake, milk
shake]
3 a note that alternates rapidly with another
note a semitone above it [syn: trill]
4 grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to
acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) [syn:
handshake, handshaking, handclasp]
Verb
1 move or cause to move back and forth; "The
chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking" [syn:
agitate]
2 move with or as if with a tremor; "his hands
shook" [syn: didder]
3 shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively; "The
old engine was juddering" [syn: judder]
4 move back and forth or sideways; "the ship was
rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on
her feet" [syn: rock,
sway]
5 undermine or cause to waver; "my faith has been
shaken"; "The bad news shook her hopes"
6 stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of;
"These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the
country" [syn: stimulate, shake up,
excite, stir]
7 get rid of; "I couldn't shake the car that was
following me" [syn: shake off,
throw
off, escape
from]
8 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"
9 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!" [also: shook, shaken]
User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology
scacan.Verb
- transitive ergative
To cause (something) to move rapidly from side to side.
- The earthquake shook the building.
- To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- Her father's death shook her terribly.
- To lose, evade, or get rid of
(something)
- I can't shake the feeling that I forgot something.
- To move from side to side.
- She shook with grief.
- To shake hands.
- OK, let's shake on it.
Translations
transitive: to cause to move
transitive: to disturb emotionally
transitive: to lose, evade
- Danish: ryste af sig
- Finnish: karistaa
- French: secouer
- Japanese: qualifier shake off 振り払う, 振り落とす; qualifier get rid of 拭う
- Russian: стряхивать (str'áχivat') , стряхнуть (str'aχnút') , избавляться (izbavl'át's'a) , избавиться (izbávit't's'a)
- Slovene: otresti se
intransitive: to move from side to side
intransitive: to shake hands
- Danish: give hånd på
- Finnish: kätellä, paiskata kättä
- French: se serrer la main
- German: händeschütteln
- Japanese: 握手する
- Slovene: stresti
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Chinese: 搖, 摇 (yáo)
- ttbc Dutch: schudden
- ttbc German: erschüttern (1,4), schütteln (2,3), schwanken (6)
- ttbc Hungarian: ráz, megráz
- ttbc Indonesian: mengguncang, mengocok
- ttbc Italian: scuotere
- ttbc Korean: 떨다 (ddeolda)
- ttbc Norwegian: riste
- ttbc Portuguese: sacudir
- ttbc Spanish: agitar, sacudir
- ttbc Swedish: skaka
- ttbc Telugu: కుదుపు (kudupu)
- ttbc Tok Pisin: seksekim, sakim, seksek (6), sekan (7)
Noun
Translations
act of shaking
milkshake
- Danish: milkshake
- Finnish: pirtelö
- German: Milchshake
- Japanese: ミルクセーキ
- Slovene: šejk
ground-up marijuana
Extensive Definition
Shake can refer to:
- Tremor
- Milkshake
- Handshake
- Shake (software), an image compositing package produced by Apple Inc.
- Shake (defragmentation utility), a largely filesystem‐independent defragmentation tool for Linux-based systems
- SHAKE algorithm, a time integration algorithm for molecular dynamics simulation
- Master Shake, a sentient milkshake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- Shake (shingle), a wooden shingle made from split logs
- Shake (cannabis), the small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag
- Shake (time), an informal unit of time equal to ten nanoseconds
- Shake (John Schlitt album), an album released by singer John Schlitt
- Shake (Zucchero album), an album by Zucchero
- A shake on a brass instrument, especially the trumpet, implies quickly slurring to a note above the written note
- "Shake" (Sam Cooke song)
- "Shake!" (The Time song)
- "Shake" (Ying Yang Twins song)
See also
- Shook (disambiguation)
- Shaked (disambiguation)
- Shaken (disambiguation)
- Shaker (disambiguation)
- Shakes (disambiguation)
- Shake It
shake in German: Shake
shake in Dutch: Shake
shake in Japanese: シェイク (曖昧さ回避)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bebung,
abandon, abate, accost, address, affright, age, agitate, agitating, agitation, alarm, alcoholic drink, all-overs,
anthem, aphonia, appall, artificial voice,
assault, attenuate, avoid, awe, ballad, be cold, beam, bear, bear upon, beat, beat up, beating, beg, beverage, bid good day, bid
good morning, billet,
blackmail, blunt, board, boarding, bob, bobble, boost, bother, bounce, bow to, bowl down, bowl
over, brandish, break
in, break the habit, breath, breathing, brick, broken speech, broken
tones, broken voice, brush off, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, butt, butt against, careen, carol, chant, chatter, cheat the undertaker,
childish treble, chill,
chirp, chirrup, choir, choked voice, chorus, churn, churn up, circumvent, clapboard, clog, coggle, comb, concuss, condition, confound, confuse, convulse, cord, cordwood, coup, cower, crack, cracked voice, cram, cramp, cripple, croak, croon, crow, crowd, crush, curdle the blood, curtsy, damage, damp, dampen, dance, dangle, dash, daunt, deaden, deal, debilitate, debug, decline, delirium tremens,
demoralize, descant, deter, devitalize, didder, dig, disaffect, disappoint, disarrange, discard, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discontinue, discourage, disenchant, dishearten, dislodge, disorder, display, disquiet, distress, disturb, ditch, dither, do-re-mi, dodder, double, drawl, driftwood, drink, drinkable, drive, drop, dull, dysarthria, dyslalia, dyslogia, dysphasia, dysphonia, dysphrasia, elbow, electrify, elude, enervate, enfeeble, escape, evade, eviscerate, exchange
greetings, excite,
exhaust, exhibit, extenuate, face, fade, fail, falsetto, falter, faze, ferment, fidget, firewood, flap, flash, flaunt, flicker, flip out, flit, flitter, float, flop, flourish, fluctuate, flurry, fluster, flutter, fly, foot, force, fox-trot, freak out on,
freeze, freeze to death,
fret, fright, frighten, frosted, frosted shake, funk, get along, get around, get
away from, get high on, get on, get out of, get rid of, get to,
give up, glass, glaze, glow, go pitapat, goad, greet, grimace, grind, grow cold, grow old,
gruel, gyrate, gyration, hail, half a jiffy, half a mo, half
a second, half a shake, halt, hardwood, harm, harshness, have a chill, have
an ague, have goose pimples, have the fidgets, have the shakes,
hawking voice, heave,
hiss, hoarseness, hold up, hoof, hop, horrify, horripilate, hum, hurtle, hustle, hymn, idioglossia, idiolalia, impair, impairment of speech,
instant, intonate, intone, jab, jactitate, jam, jar, jarring, jerk, jiff, jiffy, jig, jigget, jiggle, jimjams, jog, joggle, jolt, jolting, jostle, jounce, jump, jumps, kick, kiss, kiss hands, knock down,
lath, lathing, lathwork, lay low, leave off,
librate, lift the hat,
lilt, limp, liquid, liquor, lisp, lisping, log, look all over, look everywhere,
lose, lose heat, loss of
voice, lumber, lurch, make one tremble, malt, microsecond, millisecond, mince, minstrel, minute, mitigate, mix up, moment, muzzy speech, nasal tone,
nasalization, nod
to, nudge, nutate, oscillate, outwit, overawe, overcome, paddle, palpitate, palpitation, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, pant, paper, parade, pendulate, perish with cold,
perplex, perturb, perturbate, pile drive,
pipe, pitapat, pitch, pitter-patter, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, poke, pole, pop, post, potable, potation, prance, press, prod, prostrate, prove, psalm, psych out, pull the
forelock, pulsate,
pump, punch, puncheon, push, puzzle, quail, quake, quaker, quaking, quaver, quiver, quivering, raise
apprehensions, rake,
ram, ram down, ransack, rattle, reduce, reel, resonate, revet, rictus, rifle, rile, ripple, rock, roil, roll, roughen, roulade, ruffle, rummage, rumple, run, run against, salute, sap, say hello, scare, scour, search high heaven,
sec, second, serenade, shake all over, shake
down, shake hands, shake off, shake up, shaking, sheathe, sheathing, sheathing board,
sheeting, shimmy, shingle, shiver, shivering, shivers, shock, shoulder, shove, show off, shrivel, shudder, shuddering, shuffle, shuffle out of,
sibilation, sideboard, siding, sing, sing in chorus, sink, skip, skirt, slab, slat, slate, slip, soda, soda pop, soda water, soft
drink, soften up, softwood, sol-fa, solmizate, speech defect,
speech impediment, splat,
split second, splutter,
spook, sputter, squeeze, squirm, stagger, startle, stave, stick, stick of wood, stir, stir up, stirring up,
stone, stop, stovewood, stress, stroke, stun, swag, sway, swear off, swell, swell with emotion,
swing, swirl, take aback, talk
incoherently, tamp,
tap-dance, teeter,
temblor, test, thatch, the shakes, threaten, three-by-four,
thrill, thrill to,
throb, throw off, thrust, tic, tick, tile, timber, timbering, timberwork, tingle, tingle with excitement,
tonic, toss, toss and turn, totter, touch the hat, tremble, trembling, tremolando, tremolant, tremolo, tremor, tremors, trice, trill, trillet, trilleto, trillo, trip, troll, trouble, tumble, turn gray, turn inside
out, turn on to, turn upside down, turn white, twang, tweedle, tweedledee, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twist and turn,
twit, twitch, twitter, two shakes,
two-by-four, unbrace,
uncover, undermine, undo, undulate, unman, unnerve, unsettle, unstrengthen, unstring, upset, vacillate, vaunt, veneer, vibrate, vibrato, vocalize, wag, waggle, wall in, wall up,
wallpaper, waltz, wane, warble, waste away, wave, waver, wavering, weaken, weatherboard, whip, whip up, whisk, whistle, wield, wiggle, wigwag, willies, wink, wither, wizen, wobble, wobbling, wood, work up, worry, wriggle, wrinkle, writhe, yodel