Wake

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.

   “I woke up at four o'clock this morning.”

2. fiil (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.

   “The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.”

3. fiil 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.”

4. fiil 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,”

5. fiil 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; […]”

6. fiil 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;”

7. fiil To be alert; to keep watch

   “Command unto the guards that they diligently wake.”

8. fiil 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.”

9. isim 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 […]”

10. isim 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.”

11. isim 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.”

12. isim The act of waking, or state of being awake.

    “Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.”

13. isim A number of vultures assembled together.
14. isim The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
15. isim The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
16. isim The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
17. isim The area behind a moving person or object.

    “The player left the rest of the field trailing in her wake.”

18. isim The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
19. özel isim A surname.

    “The testator, in this cause, devised and bequeathed an equal fifth part of his real estate, and of his residuary personal estate, to the plaintiff Mrs. Wake, the wife of the plaintiff Mr. Wake[…]”

20. özel isim Ellipsis of Wake County.
21. özel isim Ellipsis of Wake Island.

    “This rendezvous at Wake took place on December 7, and for the next several days on board the Helena we were busy.”