(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.
Trill
Definition:
(v. i.) To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.
(v. t.) To turn round; to twirl.
(v. t.) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.
(v. i.) To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
(n.) A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth -- tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip -- against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages.
(n.) The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d
(n.) A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.
Example Sentences:
(1) They opened it with a flourish to reveal a packet of Trill bird seed.
(2) Professor Monojit Chatterji Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge • Daniel Trilling lays into the EU for failing to act collectively over the migrants issue.
(3) The BBC's coverage is up and running and, as the grating MC persona trills, the boys are being called to the baize.
(4) It makes me feel good … I would very much like to go,” trilled the Chile international.
(5) With the sleeve strapped on, Burkhart trilled his fingers.
(6) The major differences were in the formant patterns of vocalic elements; the frequency of occurrence of fricatives, affricates, and trills; histograms of syllable type; and variation in vowel usage.
(7) Scott’s next retreat is 20-24 April, ecoyoga.org Kriya me a river, south-east Devon Facebook Twitter Pinterest A light-hearted, instinctive teacher, London-based Tania Brown leads seven, one-hour classes over a weekend at comfy, organic Trill Farm near Lyme Regis.
(8) "I had a dream last night where Evra and Suarez came face to face they suddenly took each other in their arms and began to waltz beautifully around the pitch while the crowd hummed the Blue Danube," trills Rick Harris.
(9) "Or emotional illiteracy," as my modern daughters sometimes trill.
(10) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
(11) Results showed that each bird species exhibited superior identification of conspecific final "trill" or "whistle" elements, relative to the alien species.
(12) No rush, lads, you whistle an insouciant trill and scratch the old jacksie.
(13) Fox had taken the stage right after Leadsom, Britain’s luckiest escape, who had trilled wide-eyed: “We’re selling coffee to Brazil, sparkling wine to France and naan bread to India.” We were even, Andrea smiled excitedly, selling “bottled English countryside air for up to £80 a go”.
(14) By the end of the century, he predicted, "the harridans who have been so proud of their spite will be trilling denials at their dinner tables".
(15) It is concluded that trills, twitters, and pecking are produced by activation of dopaminergic mechanisms.
(16) Three females gave brief trills with alternating fast and slow components.
(17) The frequency spectra of the clicks within trills were fully masculinized in females implanted at PM0, PM1, and PM2.
(18) Apical trill was regarded as the correct pronunciation of R in 17th-century German, but malarticulations of this difficult sound were widespread.
(19) Trill rate varied from 16-180 Hz with a mean of about 100, approximately four times the mean trill rate reported for adult talkers.
(20) She called him BAH‑rruck, with a trill of the r's.