Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The act or process of moving with a rapid vibratory motion, jolting, agitating, etc.
- Specifically
- A violent jolting or agitation: as, give him a good shaking.
- plural Small pieces of cordage, rope, yarn, or canvas used for making oakum or paper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
shake . - noun A movement that shakes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements
- noun a shaky motion
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Examples
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Flight attendant: “Well, the shaking is the turbulence that the plane is flying through, and the noise is coming from the engines.”
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Flight attendant: “Well, the shaking is the turbulence that the plane is flying through, and the noise is coming from the engines.”
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It is what they call shaking off the yoke, and they try to imitate this.
Pascal's Pensées Blaise Pascal 1642
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The mystery of ecstatic shaking has been called shaking medicine.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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The entire system was deadlocked cause no one with the power to was really interested in shaking it up.
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[Looks at watch, hastily tries to kiss her, succeeds only in shaking hand, starts across stage toward left.]
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Walked the final 20 yards to my stand and climbed in shaking for awhile.
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Anyways, having escaped the second follower I managed to pick up in shaking off the first (and it was a crap exchange, the second being old and fugly,) and finally found my way out of the park, after a little more wandering and a brief return to Al and Heather's place, it was time for the gathering of the clan what I'd been arranging over Twitter and email.
Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Walked the final 20 yards to my stand and climbed in shaking for awhile.
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The advocacy group also uses the umbrella term "abusive head trauma," but says shaking is the leading cause of death in these cases.
Pediatricians to say 'abusive head trauma,' not 'shaken baby syndrome' 2009
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