shake meaning
EN
[ˈʃeɪk] [-eɪk] 
US WShake
- Shake may refer to:
- Handshake
- Milkshake
- Tremor
- NounPLshakes
- The act of shaking something.
- The cat gave the mouse a shake.
- A milkshake.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
- “And do you realize that in a few shakes I've got to show up at dinner and have Mrs Cream being very, very kind to me? It hurts the pride of the Woosters, Jeeves.”
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- The act of shaking something.
- VerbSGshakesPRshakingPTshookPPshaken
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- The earthquake shook the building.
- He shook the can of soda for thirty seconds before delivering it to me, so that, when I popped it open, soda went everywhere.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
- Shaking his head, he kept repeating "No, no, no".
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- to shake fruit down from a tree
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- her father's death shook her terribly; he was shaken by what had happened
- (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- I can't shake the feeling that I forgot something.
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- She shook with grief.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- OK, let's shake on it.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- She was shaking it on the dance floor.
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- to shake a note in music
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- As a campaigning politician, he really knew how to shake hands, kiss babies, and work the room.
- When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
- Some insiders said the chief executive’s priority would be to remotivate employees and restore confidence in a shaken company.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Her images are layered and slipped slightly off their undercolor as if a small creature has given them a good shaking.
- Punches were placed in haemolysing reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific), in duplicate or triplicate, and incubated at room temperature with shaking.
- The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of shake in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Verbs by inflection type
- Irregular verbs
- Irregular verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "shake" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb, a transitive verb and a verbs by inflection type.