1. shake - Noun
2. shake - Verb
4. Shake - Proper noun
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 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.
The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. Basil Hume
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. Denis Diderot
If you shake a dog, you shake his owner. Rwandan Proverb
The earth does not shake when the flea coughs. Lower Austria Proverb
If you want apples, you have to shake the trees. Bulgarian Proverb