What is the difference between weak and wake?
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Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
* Joseph Addison, The Fair Petinent Act I, scene I:
Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
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(physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
(slang) Bad or uncool.
(mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a statement which implies it.)
Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
* Milton
Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
* Milton
Lacking in vigour or expression.
Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
* Shakespeare
(stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
(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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Wake is a anagram of weak.
As an adjective weak
is lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.As a verb wake is
(often followed by up) To stop sleeping.As a noun wake is
the act of waking, or state of being awake.As a proper noun Wake is
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English
Adjective
(er)- a poor, infirm, weak , and despised old man
- weak with hunger, mad with love
- a weak''' timber; a '''weak rope
- weak''' resolutions; '''weak virtue
- Guard thy heart / On this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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- If evil thence ensue, / She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
- The prosecution advanced a weak case.
- convinced of his weak arguing
- a weak''' sentence; a '''weak style
- weak prayers
- a weak market
Synonyms
* (lacking in force or ability) feeble, frail, powerless, vincible, assailable ,vulnerable * (lacking in taste or potency) dilute, watery * See alsoAntonyms
* (lacking in force or ability) healthy, powerful, robust, strong, invincible * (lacking in taste or potency) potent, robust, strongDerived terms
* weaken * weakling * weakness * weak sisterAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----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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