a shake is a form of:
Shake
noun
- 1.
- (An act of shaking, an unsteady movement; a shaking vibration, jolt, severe shock to system: friendly grasping of hands by two individuals. -shake down to reduce, to cause to come down, to test. -shake off to reject desert, depart. -shake one's head to disagree, to reject. -shake up to shake in order to mix or loosen, to jar, upset; disturb. -two shakes two shakes of a lamb's tail a moment, a very short time) He has ashake ដំណើរញ័រ
Example: The branches shook in the wind, Makara shook with laughter, The wind shook the branches, Narong shook the cloth out of the window, The dog shook himself, The nurse shook the child, Shake my trust.
verb — past tense: Shook ; past participle: Shaken ; present participle: Shaking ; 3rd person singular present Shakes
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to move quickly and often jerkily up and down or back and forth, to dislodge by doing this, to cause to tremble, to cause to totter or become unsteady, to unnerve, to brandish) ជជុះ, ដាស់តឿន, កម្រើក
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
- 2.
- A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
- 3.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- 4.
- A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- 5.
- One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- 6.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- 7.
- The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
verb — past tense: Shook ; past participle: Shaken ; present participle: Shaking ; 3rd person singular present Shakes
- 1.
- 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.
- 2.
- (FIGURATIVE) To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
- 3.
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
- 4.
- 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.
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.