(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.
Wuther
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Example Sentences:
(1) • The Film weekly podcast saw host Jason Solomons talk to ... Bruce Robinson (director of Withnail & I) about his new film The Rum Diary ... Errol Morris (director of The Thin Blue Line) about Tabloid - his documentary on Joyce McKinney and the "Manacled Morman" case ... and Guardian film critic Xan Brooks (director of people to decent movies), who helped Jason review Arthur Christmas , The Awakening and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights .
(2) 1Wuthering Heights Her wild eyes, flailing limbs and high-pitched vocals instantly made her ripe for parody , but it was the sheer emotional force of Wuthering Heights that made Kate Bush’s debut single a smash.
(3) Wuthering Heights is also about many other things besides that relationship.
(4) But this has always been the fate of Wuthering Heights.
(5) He'd been watching Wuthering Heights and he said 'You're a bit like Heathcliff.
(6) A canny follow-up to Wuthering Heights, it showcased a softer side to her voice and banished any lingering suspicions that this strange woman might be a one-hit oddity.
(7) I have only one question to ask the 2,000 readers who, according to a new poll for UKTV Drama, have just voted Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights the greatest love story of all time.
(8) Moreover, what would happen to small-scale, high-impact films such as Shame , Wuthering Heights , The Deep Blue Sea and We Need to Talk About Kevin ; all low-budget, "difficult" films that required a "cultural" imperative to get off the ground?
(9) Wuthering Heights forsakes Arnold's beloved housing estates altogether – though even the most forbidding of these would resemble Paris in springtime next to the rain-lashed moors near the Pennine Way where Arnold filmed her adaptation.
(10) Wuthering Heights is pretty much my most treasured novel, astonishing with every reading.
(11) Gone was the wide-eyed, shrill-voiced ingenue of Wuthering Heights.
(12) But the two most influential culprits of the modern era are Hollywood and the Bronte industry, which in their separate but related ways have conspired to belittle Wuthering Heights and to reduce Emily Bronte to someone barely connected to the real world.
(13) Her younger sister, Emily Brontë, wrote Wuthering Heights.
(14) STV had not always lost out when it had passed up the chance to screen new ITV drama, Hain said: the seven-year-old Daniela Nardini drama Sirens recently did better in Scotland than Wuthering Heights had across the rest of the UK.
(15) Just 1,236 answered a question on Pride and Prejudice, a mere 285 tackled Far from the Madding Crowd, and only 187 braved Wuthering Heights.
(16) Sober Charlotte (Jane Eyre) Bronte not crazy Emily (Wuthering Heights) Bronte.
(17) His first wake-up call to dance, at the age of 13, was watching a friend act out Bush's Wuthering Heights .
(18) During a 35-year recording career Bush has travelled from the theatrical teen prodigy of Wuthering Heights to 80s pagan-pop goddess to a more wistful chronicler of the power of the elements.
(19) The production wasn't undiluted hardship: there were raucous weekend shindigs, says Arnold, who hired a Kate Bush impersonator to sing Wuthering Heights for the wrap party.
(20) The effect, though, has always been the same - to make Wuthering Heights something less than the book actually is.