Shakes (IPA: /ˈʃeɪks/)
| Shake () |
obs. p. p. of Shake. |
| Shake (v.) |
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. |
| Shake (v.) |
Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. |
| Shake (v.) |
To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. |
| Shake (v.) |
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. |
| Shake (v. i.) |
To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. |
| Shake (n.) |
The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation. |
| Shake (n.) |
A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. |
| Shake (n.) |
A fissure in rock or earth. |
| Shake (n.) |
A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. |
| Shake (n.) |
One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. |
| Shake (n.) |
A shook of staves and headings. |
| Shake (n.) |
The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. |
| Shakes |
Defect in timber |
| Shakes |
Family name |
| Shake |
Informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds |
| Shake |
Song by Little Boots |
| Shake |
Graphics software |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon." - Age |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Any sound can shake the air. My voice shakes the heart!" - The World Ends with You |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " I'll be there in two shakes of a... a lamb's tail." - Wallace and Gromit |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " The freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " The Grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou 'rt named: Nature, appall'd, Shakes off her wonted firmness." - Robert Blair |
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