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(ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Bunyan) (1628-1688)
To disturb emotionally; to shock.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
To move from side to side.
*, chapter=23
, title= To shake hands.
To dance.
To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
The act of shaking something.
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).)
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(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.
(UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
(Webster 1913)
(transitive, or, intransitive) To cook (something) in an oven.
To dry by heat.
To prepare food by baking it.
To be baked to heating or drying.
(figuratively) To be hot.
(slang) To smoke marijuana.
To harden by cold.
* Shakespeare:
* Spenser:
(UK, NZ) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
* 2009 , Rosalind Peters, Kate Pankhurst, Clive Boursnell, Midnight Feast Magic: Sleepover Fun and Food
The act of cooking food by baking.
As nouns the difference between shake and bake
is that shake is the act of shaking something while bake is nautical traffic sign or buoy.As a verb shake
is (ergative) to cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.shake
English
(wikipedia shake)Verb
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
- Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
- I could scarcely shake him out of my company.
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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 .}}
Derived terms
* more than one can shake a stick at * shake a leg * shake and bake, shake 'n bake * shake hands * shake off * shake one's ass * shake one's head * shake on it * shake the pagoda tree * shake upNoun
(en noun)- The cat gave the mouse a shake .
- (Totten)
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* in two shakes, in two shakes of a cow's tail, etc. * milk-shake * no great shakes * shakemap, shake map * shake table * shakeup, shake-upbake
English
Verb
(bak)- I baked a delicious cherry pie.
- She's been baking all day to prepare for the dinner.
- The clay baked in the sun.
- It is baking in the greenhouse.
- I'm baking after that workout in the gym.
- The earth is baked with frost.
- They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
Usage notes
In the dialects of northern England, the simple past book'' and past participle ''baken are sometimes encountered.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* baked * bake-off * baking * in a bake * half-bakedNoun
(en noun)- If you happen to have small, heat-proof glass or ceramic pots in your kitchen (known as ramekins) then you can make this very easy pasta bake in fun-size, individual portions.