wake
名词 n.
动词 v.
美 /ˈwæɪ̯k/|[ˈwæ̝ɪ̯k]
英文释义
名词 n.
- The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
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A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
— Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may by order prohibit the conduct of a wake over the body of that person or impose such conditions as he thinks fit on the conduct of such wake […]
- The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
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The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
— The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light.Comus
- The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
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A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
— 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
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The area behind a moving person or object.
— The player left the rest of the field trailing in her wake.
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The act of waking, or state of being awake.
— Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.
- The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
- A number of vultures assembled together.
动词 v.
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(often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
— I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
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(often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
— The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
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To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
— Not for my life, leſt fierce remembrance wake My ſudden rage to tear thee joint by joint.
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To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
— and gentle Aires due at thir hour To fan the Earth now wak'd,
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To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
— Dougal said that being alone with the dead on that floor of the tower (for naebody cared to wake Sir Robert Redgauntlet like another corpse) he had never daured^([sic]) to answer the call, but that now his conscience checked him for neglecting his duty; […]
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To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
— The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away sleepe;
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To be alert; to keep watch
— Command unto the guards that they diligently wake.
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To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
— The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
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词源 1
A merger of two verbs of related/similar form and meaning:
* Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną.
* Middle English wakien, Old English wacian, from Proto-West Germanic *wakēn, from Proto-Germanic *wakāną.
* Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną.
* Middle English wakien, Old English wacian, from Proto-West Germanic *wakēn, from Proto-Germanic *wakāną.
词源 2
From Middle English wake, from Old English wacu, from Proto-Germanic *wakō, related to the verb *wakjaną.
词源 3
Probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch wake, from or akin to Old Norse vǫk (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök), from Proto-Germanic *wakwō (“wetness”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“moist, wet”).
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