shake
part of speech
verb (shake, shakes, shook, shaken, shaking); noun (a shake, shakes)
meaning for a pupil
1) To shake is to move something quickly up and down or side to side. tree →
2) To shake hands is to hold someone's hand and move it up and down to greet them. tree →
3) To shake is to tremble, like shaking with cold or fear. tree →
4) A shake (milkshake) is a cold drink made with milk and ice cream. tree →
5) To shake your head is to move it side to side to mean «no». tree →
6) To shake something off can mean to get rid of it. tree →
sense in the lessons
an action in the story, often shaking hands (counting handshakes); also a milk shake that is bought; in science: in an earthquake the ground shakes; shaking a bottle mixes things; in manners: shake hands to greet; phrases: «shake hands», «shake your head», «shake off» (get rid of), «in two shakes» (very soon)
examples
- Each child shakes hands with every other child. tree →
- How many handshakes are there if 5 people each shake hands once? tree →
- A milk shake costs 3 dollars. tree →
- She shook the jar and 4 coins fell out. tree →
- Shake the bottle before you pour. tree →
- The ground shook during the earthquake. tree →
- He was shaking with cold after the swim. tree →
- She shook her head to say no. tree →
- I'll be ready in two shakes. tree →
- I'm preparin' fer to shake worldliness. tree →
note
For handshakes, each pair shakes once: with n people there are n × (n − 1) ÷ 2. Trap: do not count the same handshake twice. Irregular: shake, shook, (has) shaken. Not «shaked».
In the corpora
- Vibrato is a controlled wobble in the voice that singers use on purpose, different from a nervous shake.
- Small shakes are normal; artists draw lightly with many strokes from the shoulder and elbow, then darken the line they like.
- Bumblebees can buzz at a special pitch that shakes pollen out of tomato flowers, and farmers use them in greenhouses.
- Think of a fizzy drink: shake it and the gas wants out.
- Scooby-Doo shakes with fear, Garfield wolfs a tray of lasagne, Sonic zooms round loops faster than sound.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «shake» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.