What is the difference between wake and awake?
wake | awake |
(often followed by up ) To stop sleeping.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(often followed by up ) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
* Bible, Zech. iv. 1
(figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
* Milton
* J. R. Green
(figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
* Milton
* Keble
To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
* Bible, Eccles. xlii. 9
* Milton
* John Locke
(obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
* Dryden
* Milton
A period after a person's death before the body is buried, in some cultures accompanied by a party.
(historical, Church of England) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
* Ld. Berners
* Drayton
The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
(figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
* De Quincey
* Thackeray
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(label) To become conscious after having slept.
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*:Each morning when I awake , I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
(label) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
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*:Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
(label) to excite or to stir up something latent.
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
*(Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
*:The national spirit again awoke .
*(Bible), xv. 34
*:Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
In intransitive terms the difference between wake and awake
is that wake is (often followed by up) To stop sleeping while awake is to become conscious after having slept.In transitive terms the difference between wake and awake
is that wake is (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep while awake is to excite or to stir up something latent.In transitive figurative terms the difference between wake and awake
is that wake is to put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite while awake is to rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.In intransitive figurative terms the difference between wake and awake
is that wake is to be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active while awake is to come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.As a noun wake
is the act of waking, or state of being awake.As a proper noun Wake
is {{surname|lang=en}.As an adjective awake is
not asleep; conscious.wake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) waken'', (etyl) ''wacan * Middle English wakien'', Old English ''wacianVerb
- I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
- How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.
- The angel came again and waked me.
- The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
- lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage
- Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
- Gentle airs due at their hour / To fan the earth now waked .
- Then wake , my soul, to high desires.
- The father waketh for the daughter.
- Though wisdom wake , suspicion sleeps.
- I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
- The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, / Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
Noun
(en noun)- Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.
- Singing her flatteries to my morning wake .
- The warlike wakes continued all the night, / And funeral games played at new returning light.
- The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, / Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) wacu.Noun
(en noun)- Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
- And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.
Synonyms
* death watchSee also
* arval, arvelEtymology 3
Probably (etyl), from (etyl) , Icelandic ).Noun
(en noun)- This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
- Several humbler persons formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.
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