wake
part of speech
verb (wake, wakes, woke, woken, waking); noun (a wake — rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) To wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping. tree →
2) To wake someone is to make them stop sleeping. tree →
3) The wake of a boat is the line of waves it leaves behind on the water. tree →
4) «In the wake of» means after something and because of it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a clock time in a story; hours of sleep from bedtime to wake time. In everyday life: waking up for school, an alarm clock that wakes you, being quiet so as not to wake the baby. In stories: a hero who wakes in a strange place. Phrases: «wake up», «wake-up call», «wide awake».
examples
- She wakes up at 7:00. tree →
- He went to bed at 9:00 and woke at 6:00. tree →
- How many hours did he sleep? tree →
- They woke up 30 minutes late. tree →
- Shh, don't wake the baby! tree →
- My alarm wakes me every school day. tree →
- Bears wake up in spring after sleeping all winter. tree →
- The boat left a long white wake behind it. tree →
- Are you sleeping, or are you waking?" tree →
note
Past «woke», past participle «woken» («I have woken»). «Wake up» and «get up» differ: you can wake up and stay in bed. «Awake» means not asleep. Maths: gives an end time; sleep time = wake time − bedtime, counting past midnight (9:00 at night to 6:00 in the morning is 9 hours, not 3).
In the corpora
- Mediterranean tortoises hibernate, and owners guided by a vet keep them steady at about 5 degrees so they neither wake early nor freeze.
- Cave bears slept through the winter in caves, and many never woke up, so some caves hold the bones of thousands.
- Toad: «What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!
- Back home, a coal slips in the fire and the Rat wakes up.
- Then «a small sting of frozen sleet on the skin woke them as from a dream».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wake» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.