(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.
(v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
(v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
(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.
(v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
(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.
(n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
(n.) A fissure in rock or earth.
(n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
(n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
(n.) A shook of staves and headings.
(n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
Example Sentences:
(1) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(2) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
(3) Almost a year on, I am still shaking my head in disbelief.
(4) In the modified test, shake cultures in Brewer's fluid thioglycolate medium with 0.3% agar added are observed for growth in the anaerobic zone of the tubes.
(5) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(6) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
(7) In order to assess this inter-relationship isolated rat glomeruli were incubated with and without shaking.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
(9) In the spinalized preparation, steady-state and nonsteady-state responses have an equal likelihood of emerging from the initial cycles of a paw-shake response, suggesting that regular coupling of joint oscillations is not planned by pattern-generating networks within lumbosacral segments.
(10) Systemic administration of drugs that augment 5-HT2 activity generally induces 'wet dog' shaking (WDS) in rats.
(11) The yes camp should have made no bones about a call to the nation to shake things up, by bringing him down a peg or two.
(12) The after-discharge induced by subconvulsant electrical stimulations, is followed by a behavioral phenomenon, named Wet Dog Shakes (WDS).
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift: Shake It Off Taylor Swift – 1989 Live web streams!
(14) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(15) The relationship between ultrasonographic detection of fetal vernix and visual assessment of amniotic fluid (AF) and fetal pulmonary maturity evaluated by the "shake test" was studied in 73 high-risk patients undergoing amniocentesis for obstetrical indications.
(16) In light of how often during his career he has been forced to take on more defensive roles Mascherano shakes his head and insists that he is not shifting from the No5.
(17) I couldn't shake the harsh words from my head and worried about if, or when, they would spill over into real life.
(18) She slept in the hall, covered in a duvet, and by the time her cleaner arrived the next day, she was sweating, vomiting repeatedly and shaking.
(19) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(20) As the authors failed to obtain a contiuous cell line from a single cell colony the method of "shaking" was applied.
Shimmy
Definition:
(n.) A chemise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having given his marker the slip, Sturridge picked up the ball on the edge of the penalty area, turned Antonio Luna inside-out, then somehow shimmied his way around Brad Guzan and fired the ball high into the roof of the net in order to avoid two defenders who'd rushed back to man the line.
(2) 14 min: Zabaleta gets on the end of a beautifully angled David Silva pass on the right-hand side of the Dortmund penalty area and tries to shimmy and wriggle his way towards goal from the goal-line.
(3) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
(4) 3.34pm BST 34 mins: Brilliant build up play by Suarez outside the box, as he drops a shoulder to create some space, then shimmies past one defender, but his left-footed shot is scuffed and straight to Krul for an easy save.
(5) The cerebral midfielder shimmies this way and that, hoping to prise United open somehow, but the red line holds firm.
(6) The man whose idea of small talk was once endogenous growth theory shimmied round the dance floor, swayed his hips and ran his hands up and down his (strangely non-shrinking) body, mouthing the words: “Oooooooooooh, sexy laaaydeee …” We all had high hopes for Balls on Strictly, but none of us could have ever predicted these dizzying highs – not even his wife Yvette Cooper , who watches every week with the expression of a mother watching her over-enthusiastic toddler at a dancing display.
(7) He dinks into Vargas, who looks to shimmy a yard of space, but Javi Martinez's tackle bobbles a foot or so wide.
(8) 65 min: Di Maria dances, shimmies, shakes and makes other disco-friendly movements down the right, before cutting inside, romping into the area, and whacking a low shot goalwards.
(9) Trochowski shimmies down the left and lifts a cross into the centre for Klose, who sidefoots a dropping ball into the bottom-left corner.
(10) ET21: Shimmying down the left, Kaka tries to muscle his way around the the back of the Bayern Munich defence.
(11) As Kalaba had a free-kick glance just wide off Cheik Tioté, there were shimmies and shuffles all over, almost as though they were determined to rile Ivory Coast.
(12) I can see myself speaking – it’s humiliating.” With that, she shimmies away to the far end of the couch.
(13) His songs were the soundtrack to my life: a quavering New York voice with little range singing songs of alienation and despair, with flashes of impossible hope and of those tiny, perfect days and nights we want to last for ever, important because they are so finite and so few; songs filled with people, some named, some anonymous, who strut and stagger and flit and shimmy and hitch-hike into the limelight and out again.
(14) They came in all different price points and in all different styles: round elephants reminiscent of French cartoons from the 1960s, and strange pseudo-sexual shimmies, and with 1920s straw boater hats leading parades.
(15) Those pre-ordering now get an instant download of the excellent Almost Like the Blues , a sombre lyric full of suffering set to a classy shimmy.
(16) A shirtless young man shimmied down a lamppost after scrawling "Leave you murderer" across a billboard of the president's face.
(17) Hey, nothing says "rave" quite like the CEO of Barclaycard shimmying around a chocolate teardrop in black tie get-up.
(18) No problem – depression, sexual frustration, genocide – it seemed, was so big that it couldn't be solved by a spontaneous shimmy.
(19) Anyone who missed a cinema ad in which a glass of Baileys gloop is transformed into scores of shimmying beauties, so as "to celebrate the spirit of modern womanhood", can still catch its festive promotion, "spend time with the girls this Christmas", in which three modern women, discovering that they prefer the beverage to any amount of testosterone, illustrate how positive action can be cute and fun.
(20) Backed up by a few handheld cameras and 22 radio mikes, they capture the ups and downs of academic life, from the maths teacher singing One Direction to himself as he shimmies down the corridor, to the lies told by a year 11 pupil as she successfully pins the blame on another pupil for a fight she had a hand in starting.