(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.
Shook
Definition:
(imp.) of Shake
() of Shake
() imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.
(n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
(n.) A set of boards for a sugar box.
(n.) The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
(v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sadler shook her head again when Cameron repeated the much-used statistic that enough water to fill Wembley Stadium three times was being pumped from the Levels each day.
(2) Scoble shook his head, suggesting that by showing his Glass to "more than 600 people: bus drivers, school teachers..." he (and thus Google) is getting feedback from a wider demographic group.
(3) In 2003 Mayweather allegedly punched two friends of his then-partner (and the mother of several of his children) Josie Harris in a nightclub and shook a female security guard.
(4) Djami Marika stood at the edge of a pristine Arnhem Land beach and shook his head at the boat moored across the channel.
(5) The Indianapolis Star reported that after the debate, Donnelly, the Democratic senate candidate, "shook his head over" Mourdock's comments.
(6) He shook his head from side to side, whispering or humming the same three-note tune.
(7) From the early pamphleteers – Tom Paine for one – to the muckrakers who fought injustice such as Nellie Bly; from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed ; from Mother Jones to the Pentagon papers, the words that shook America mostly came from passionate reporters with a cause to champion.
(8) Ukip shook the can before Tory MPs handed it to Cameron for opening, thereby spraying himself and his party in a sticky political mess.
(9) Bias's death not only shook the sporting world, its ramifications are still being felt today both in and out of the sporting world.
(10) Saturday’s attacks are likely to increase the tension and fear of instability that have endured since an attempted coup in July shook the country.
(11) Five years after the event that shook the very foundations of Norway’s national identity, the site of the 22 July massacre – the deadliest ever shooting by a single gunman in history (who also killed eight more people in Oslo with a car bomb earlier that day) – has been transformed into a place that tells the story with stark, stirring power.
(12) French police have charged a father with child abuse after he allegedly shook and beat his month-old baby because he could not bear the infant's crying – and then posted a photo of the baby's bruised face on Facebook "for a laugh".
(13) The pair shook hands before the meeting, which went on for several hours in a round-table format, and then also met one-on-one for two hours late in the evening.
(14) Then there were the plastic domes with Mao inside that rained gold flakes when you shook them.
(15) He shook hands with some of his fellow defendants as he left the dock to begin his life sentence.
(16) United will reflect on other chances, such as when Vidic's header shook the post from a first-half corner.
(17) The first decade of the 21st century shook the international order, turning the received wisdom of the global elites on its head – and 2008 was its watershed.
(18) One of the most forthright members of the new crossbench, the Tasmanian PUP senator Jacqui Lambie, shook hands with the leader of the government in the Senate, Eric Abetz, despite declaring in a weekend media interview that she did “not like the man” (she told News Corp Abetz was part of a “little men’s group” of Coalition senators who lacked achievements).
(19) Because ever since Nick Clegg shook hands with David Cameron on the steps of 10 Downing St and formed the coalition, doing well in byelections – hitherto the Liberal Democrats’ forte – has been beyond them.
(20) His death prompted protests and rioting that shook the city and caused millions of dollars in damage, and has since come to symbolize the broken relationship between the police and the public in Baltimore, and the treatment of black men by police in the US.