shake
The act of shaking or being shakenThe act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
» Let's shake hands and be friends.
Lass uns die Hand reichen und Freunde sein.
Давай пожмём руки и будем друзьями.
Давайте пожмём руки и будем друзьями.
Давай потиснемо руки і будемо друзями.
Потиснімо руки й будьмо друзями.
Meaning
18 senses(countable, uncountable)The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
The cat gave the mouse a shake.
She replied in the negative, with a shake of her head.
Schütteln
трясі́нняtrjasínnja
(countable, usually plural, uncountable)A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
(countable, uncountable)A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
(countable, uncountable)A milkshake.
Milchshake
кокте́йльkoktɛ́jlʹ, шейкšejk
(countable, uncountable)A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
(countable, uncountable)Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
(US, slang, uncountable)An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
(countable, uncountable)A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
отлупotlup
(countable, uncountable)A fissure in rock or earth.
(countable, uncountable)A type of wooden shingle originally made from split timber.
Schindel
(countable, informal, uncountable)Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
(countable, uncountable)One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
Examples
666 sentencesLet's shake hands and be friends.
Давай потиснемо руки і будемо друзями.
ruДавай пожмём руки и будем друзьями.
deLass uns die Hand reichen und Freunde sein.
I want to shake your hand.
Я хочу потиснути тобі руку.
ruЯ хочу пожать тебе руку.
Tom didn't even shake my hand.
Том навіть не потиснув мені руку.
ruТом даже не пожал мне руку.
deTom hat mir nicht mal die Hand gegeben.
I don't shake hands.
Я руки не тисну.
ruЯ руки не жму.
I felt the house shake.
Я почув, як будинок здригнувся.
ruЯ почувствовал, как дом содрогнулся.
deIch fühlte, wie das Haus wackelte.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English schaken, from Old English sċeacan, sċacan (“to shake”), from Proto-WesFrom Middle English schaken, from Old English sċeacan, sċacan (“to shake”), from Proto-West Germanic *skakan, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, swing, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (“to jump, move”).
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Forms
plural: shakesSynonyms
11 synonyms- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract):handshakehandshakinghandclasp
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it:trill
- building material used as siding or roofing:shingle
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side:wagwaggle
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement:trembleshiver
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream:milkshakemilk shake
Word family
25 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- shake hands
- shake the feeling
- couldn't shake the
- pretty shaken up
- shake hands with
- the house shake
- hands are shaking
- house shake
- refused to shake
- couldn't shake
- to shake hands
- pretty shaken