different between shake vs spasm

English

Etymology

From Middle English schaken, from Old English s?eacan, s?acan (“to shake”). from Proto-Germanic *skakan? (“to shake, swing, escape”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg-, *(s)kek- (“to jump, move”). Cognate with Scots schake, schack (“to shake”), West Frisian schaekje (“to shake”), Dutch schaken (“to elope, make clean, shake”), Low German schaken (“to move, shift, push, shake”) and schacken (“to shake, shock”), Norwegian Nynorsk skaka (“to shake”), Swedish skaka (“to shake”), Dutch schokken (“to shake, shock”), Russian ???????? (skakát?, “to jump”). More at shock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k
• Homophones: sheik, sheikh (one pronunciation)

Verb

shake (third-person singular simple present shakes, present participle shaking, simple past shook or (rare) shaked or (slang) shooketh, past participle shaken or (dialectal) shook)

1. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
2. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
3. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
4. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.

   Synonym: traumatize
5. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).

6. (intransitive) To move from side to side.

   Synonyms: shiver, tremble
7. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.

8. (intransitive) To dance.

9. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.

10. (transitive, figuratively) To threaten to overthrow.

11. (intransitive, figuratively) To be agitated; to lose firmness.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

shake (plural shakes)

1. 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.

2. A milkshake.
3. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
4. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
5. (building material) A thin shingle.
6. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
7. A fissure in rock or earth.
8. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
9. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
10. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.

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11. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
12. A shook of staves and headings.

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13. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
14. A shock or disturbance.
    • 1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis

      As long as I had seen Mr Holdsworth in the rooms at the little inn at Hensleydale, where I had been accustomed to look upon him as an invalid, I had not been aware of the visible shake his fever had given to his health.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (crack or split in wood): knot

Anagrams

• Hakes, hakes

Japanese

Romanization

shake

1. R?maji transcription of ???
2. R?maji transcription of ???

Spanish

Noun

shake m (plural shakes)

1. shake (drink)

English

Etymology

From Middle English spasme, from Old French spasme, from Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (spasmós, “spasm, convulsion”), from ???? (spá?, “to draw out, pull out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spæz.?m/

Noun

spasm (plural spasms)

1. A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.
2. A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.
3. A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.

Related terms

• spastic

Translations

Verb

spasm (third-person singular simple present spasms, present participle spasming, simple past and past participle spasmed)

1. To produce and undergo a spasm.

Translations

Anagrams

• samps, spams

Romanian

Etymology

From French spasme.

Noun

spasm n (plural spasme)

1. spasm

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French spasme, from Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (spasmós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spasm/, [?spas?m]

Noun

spasm c

1. spasm

Declension

References

• spasm in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)