Definition of Shake

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Definition of Shake

Shake

obs. p. p. of Shake.

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.

Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.

To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.

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.

To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.

The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.

A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.

A fissure in rock or earth.

A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.

One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.

A shook of staves and headings.

The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

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Shake Quotations

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Jim Morrison

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Martin Luther

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord Byron

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
George W. Bush

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

Shake Translations

shake in Afrikaans is skok
shake in Danish is ryste
shake in Dutch is schokken
shake in Finnish is pudistaa
shake in Italian is scuotere
shake in Latin is mico, contremo, contremisco, tremo, palpito
shake in Spanish is batido

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