Wake

  • 51wake — awake, awaken, wake, waken 1. forms. Although the history of these words, and in particular of the various forms of past tense and past participle, is highly complex (see the OED entry), in current use awake and wake can be paired as strong verbs …

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  • 52Wake — A wake is the region of turbulence immediately to the rear of a solid body caused by the flow of air or water around the body. In fluid dynamics, a wake is the region of separated flow (usually turbulent)downstream of a solid body moving relative …

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  • 53Wake Up! — Infobox Album | Name = Wake Up! Type = Studio album Artist = The Boo Radleys Released = March 27 1995 (U.K.) June 12 2001 (U.S.) Recorded = September October 1994 Genre = Indie Length = 51:29 Label = Creation Records CRECD 179 (U.K.) Columbia… …

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  • 54Wake Up! WA — Infobox Television show name = Wake Up! WA caption = logoalt = launched = September 2005 format = Breakfast program picture format = 4x3 creator = Carol Wallbank country = Flagicon|Australia Australia network = Access 31 runtime = 60 minutes… …

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  • 55Wake up — Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine Rage Against The Machine au Big Day Out 2008, Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne. Pays d’origine Los Angeles …

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  • 56Wake — Wa|ke 〈f. 19; nddt.〉 Stelle in einem Fluss, die auch im Winter eisfrei bleibt [<mnddt. wake <germ. *wakwo „feuchte Stelle“; zu idg. *uegu „feucht“] * * * Wa|ke, die; , n [mniederd. wake] (nordd.): nicht od. nur oberflächlich zugefrorene… …

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  • 57wake-up — /wayk up /, n. 1. an act or instance of waking up. 2. an act or instance of being awakened: I asked the hotel desk for a wake up at 6. 3. a time of awaking or being awakened: I ll need a 5 o clock wake up to make the early plane. 4. flicker2. adj …

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  • 58wake up — phrasal verb Word forms wake up : present tense I/you/we/they wake up he/she/it wakes up present participle waking up past tense woke up past participle woken up 1) [intransitive/transitive] to start to feel more lively, or to make someone feel… …

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  • 59wake*/ — [weɪk] (past tense woke [wəʊk] ; past participle woken [ˈwəʊkən] ) verb [I/T] I to stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping I woke at 5 o clock this morning.[/ex] Be quiet or you ll wake the baby.[/ex] • wake (sb) up II noun [C] wake… …

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  • 60wake — English has two distinct words wake. The older, ‘not sleep’ [OE], goes back ultimately to the prolific Indo European base *wog , *weg ‘be active or lively’. This proliferated semantically in many directions, including ‘growth’ (in which it gave… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins