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.
Mahatma 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
Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
Barack Obama
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
We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.
Richard Branson
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
Princess Diana
I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
Elizabeth Taylor
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca
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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