Meaning of shake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
   countable, plural-normally, uncountable
4. A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
   countable, uncountable
5. A milkshake.
   countable, uncountable
6. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
   countable, uncountable
7. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
   countable, uncountable
8. An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
   US, slang, uncountable
9. A thin shingle.
   countable, uncountable
10. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
    countable, uncountable
11. A fissure in rock or earth.
    countable, uncountable
12. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
    countable, uncountable
13. Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
    countable, informal, uncountable
14. One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
    countable, uncountable
15. A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
    countable, uncountable
16. In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
    countable, uncountable
17. A shook of staves and headings.
    countable, uncountable
18. The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
    UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
19. A shock or disturbance.
    countable, uncountable
20. An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
    countable, historical, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The cat gave the mouse a shake.”

“She replied in the negative, with a shake of her head.”

“And when the princely Perſean Diadem, Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head, And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death, In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:”

“The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it.”

“[…] most suppliers will allow up to 120 grams of shake to a kilo, or 12 percent; kilo-level buyers are usually unhappy if they find more.”

““And do you realize that in a few shakes I've got to show up at dinner and have Mrs Cream being very, very kind to me? It hurts the pride of the Woosters, Jeeves.””

“Empty casks are[…]taken to pieces, and the staves closely packed up in a cylindrical form, constituting what are called shakes or packs”

“A Signora Rossinuola, with the face of a goddess, and the voice of an angel, made her first curtsy that evening to the Neapolitans. She was received with the most rapturous applause. Nothing was heard of next day but her shake and her smile.”

“As long as I had seen Mr Holdsworth in the rooms at the little inn at Hensleydale, where I had been accustomed to look upon him as an invalid, I had not been aware of the visible shake his fever had given to his health.”

“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, […]”

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