(a.) Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.
(a.) Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2.
(n.) Impaired, as by a shock.
Example Sentences:
(1) under one year of age) a pattern emerged which has previously been described as the 'shaken baby syndrome'.
(2) Everybody has been shaken by the death of Ann Maguire and the notion that any teacher should lose their life in the classroom.
(3) The net lag periods determined spectrophotometrically varied inversely with temperature and were shorter at 5 and 10 degrees C for cultures from shaken versus from statically grown inocula.
(4) Lebanon Ever volatile Lebanon has been shaken by documents showing close links between the pro-western government and the US.
(5) With two exceptions, the decreases in mRNA levels were dependent on developmental conditions and were not seen when cells were shaken in starvation buffer.
(6) Series of 1,3-dihalogeno-5-nitrobenzenes, 3- and 3,5-halogenoanilines, and 2,6-dihalogeno-4-nitroanilines were tested for fungitoxicity against Aspergillus niger, A. oryzae, Trichoderma viride, Myrothecium verrucaria, and Trichophyton mentagrophytes in shaken culture by using Sabouraud dextrose broth enriched with yeast extract as the test medium.
(7) When both specimens became positive at the same time, 88% of the shaken cultures had higher growth indices than their nonshaken counterparts.
(8) AIDS), and the failure to find single causes even for some well-known diseases, has shaken the widespread conviction that the universe of disease is finite, and that every disease will have a cure.
(9) Years of failed talks and prevarication by industrialised countries have shaken his belief in the UN process.
(10) But Allardyce’s self-belief isn’t shaken: he moves to Bury as a part-time coach, before being handed his first big management chance in Ireland.
(11) Instead he realised that while his teammates were wrestling him on the ground in celebration, he hadn’t yet shaken hands with his opponent, David Goffin.
(12) And it has shaken the changes consolidated by Clement Attlee, that deeply uncharismatic but honourable and far-sighted politician.
(13) Bahrain, a small Gulf island state where the Shia majority is ruled by the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty, was shaken in February 2011 by protests known locally as the Pearl Revolution, which ended when Saudi led-forces intervened.
(14) Dubbed the Switzerland of South America for its relative wealth and stability, its image would be shaken up with a former guerrilla and self-described "hot head" in charge.
(15) If you haven’t seen it,” Clinton said, “you need to see her speech in New Hampshire.” Michelle Obama denounces Trump's rhetoric: 'It has shaken me to my core' Read more In fact, Obama’s oratory was a Clinton campaign highlight Thursday, a much-shared, widely tweeted and overwhelmingly celebrated defense of girls’ and women’s rights not to be demeaned or assaulted by anyone, not a construction worker on the street or the man who would be president.
(16) After the vial was sealed and shaken by hand, 1 ml of its headspace gas was taken by disposable syringe and injected into the gas chromatograph.
(17) Low-Earth orbit is quickly becoming the realm of the private sector – including the loose agglomeration of companies known collectively as NewSpace, which have shaken human spaceflight progress out of a sluggish period.
(18) Twenty known penicillic acid (PA)-producing Aspergillus and Penicillium cultures were grown under various conditions in shaken flasks to determine the highest yielding strains and their requirements for maximum toxin production.
(19) The revelations haven shaken one of the stalwarts of Japanese industry.
(20) Greater viable-cell counts resulted with the cells that were shaken in lactose buffer than with the control cells when each was incubated at 5 C for several weeks.
Unshakable
Definition:
(a.) Not capable of being shaken; firm; fixed.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
(2) Whether motivated by fear of failure or the desire to win, the victor's personality type requires the constant assertion of the self – a self in which one can only place the most fervent and unshakeable belief.
(3) James Mattis, the new US defence secretary, has reassured his British counterpart that Washington has an “unshakeable commitment” to Nato , despite Donald Trump previously casting the military alliance as obsolete.
(4) After five days away from his homeland, Abu Majid is convinced that the four decades of unshakable autocracy he left behind are now steadily unravelling.
(5) The residents of the Rock seem to have an unshakeable faith that the odds will always be on their side.
(6) In the circumstances, you do have to marvel at that mulishly self-regarding "for any offence caused" – the classic non-apology apology typically proffered by those with a belief in their own absolute probity, which is as unshakeable as it is misplaced.
(7) This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable."
(8) But despite all the denial and the falls, his commitment to his sport remains unshakeable.
(9) The US president, Barack Obama, spoke to the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, and the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Thursday and reaffirmed the “unshakeable US commitment” to their security.
(10) Its fans had proved over 40 years that they were unshakably, bloody-mindedly loyal, addicted to the hope of seeing City successful, apparently whatever it took.
(11) In a speech that was widely seen as his most supportive of Israel as president, Obama spoke about the US's "unshakeable" commitment to the Jewish state's security, and said that any lasting peace must recognise Israel's "very real security concerns".
(12) The framework demonstrates the unshakeable resolve of the two countries in combating and defeating terrorism, including the threat posed by foreign fighters joining extremist groups,” it said.
(13) You can quote the many statistics that challenge this view, yet, reinforced by parts of the media and some politicians, it is unshakable.
(14) If it seems eccentric to compare Churchill, scion of the Dukes of Marlborough, with Davis, who was brought up in a council flat in south London, then factor in their shared attributes: unshakable self-confidence, a certain vanity, and a capacity to inspire affection and extreme irritation.
(15) Sadly, circumstances would keep us apart for six years, during which time we slowly built an unshakable friendship and the eventually basis for our partnership.
(16) Open your ears, and you will hear our voice and unshakable anger already on the doorstep of your cell.
(17) My confidence in the Egyptian state and its institutions is unequivocal and unshakeable."
(18) The duck house is lodged there, unshakeably fixed in the national psyche, despite the fact that newer and bigger scandals have come to take its place: the revelations of phone-hacking in the press and the connected accusations of police corruption, to name but two.
(19) The unshakable courage of the students and families in Ayotzinapa are testing the indifference of the Mexican government to the core.
(20) She ridicules his unshakeable belief that government is exactly analogous to business.