Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - wake
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1. v. & n. --v. (past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked) 1 intr. & tr. (often foll. by up) cease or cause to cease to sleep. 2 intr. & tr. (often foll. by up) become or cause to become alert, attentive, or active (needs something to wake him up). 3 intr. (archaic except as waking adj. & n.) be awake (in her waking hours; waking or sleeping). 4 tr. disturb (silence or a place) with noise; make re-echo. 5 tr. evoke (an echo). 6 intr. & tr. rise or raise from the dead. --n. 1 a watch beside a corpse before burial; lamentation and (less often) merrymaking in connection with this. 2 (usu. in pl.) an annual holiday in (industrial) northern England. 3 hist. a a vigil commemorating the dedication of a church. b a fair or merrymaking on this occasion. Phrases and idioms be a wake-up (often foll. by to) Austral. sl. be alert or aware. wake-robin 1 Brit. an arum, esp. the cuckoo-pint. 2 US any plant of the genus Trillium. Derivatives waker n. Etymology: OE wacan (recorded only in past woc), wacian (weak form), rel. to WATCH: sense 'vigil' perh. f. ON 2. n. 1 the track left on the water's surface by a moving ship. 2 turbulent air left behind a moving aircraft etc. Phrases and idioms in the wake of behind, following, as a result of, in imitation of. Etymology: prob. f. MLG f. ON v{ouml}k hole or opening in ice
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I. verb (woke; also ~d; woken or ~d; also woke; waking) Etymology: partly from Middle English ~n (past wook, past participle ~n), from Old English wacan to a~ (past wōc, past participle wacen); partly from Middle English wakien, ~n (past & past participle ~d), from Old English wacian to be a~ (past wacode, past participle wacod); akin to Old English wæccan to watch, Latin vegēre to enliven Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to be or remain a~, to remain a~ on watch especially over a corpse, to stay up late in revelry, a~, transitive verb to stand watch over (as a dead body), 2. to rouse from or as if from sleep ; a~, stir, excite , to arouse conscious interest in ; alert, ~r noun II. noun Date: 13th century the state of being a~, 2. a. an annual English parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the church's patron saint, vigil 1a, the festivities originally connected with the ~ of an English parish church, an annual holiday or vacation, a watch held over the body of a dead person prior to burial and sometimes accompanied by festivity, III. noun Etymology: akin to Middle Low German ~ ~, Norwegian dialect vok, Old Norse vǫk hole in ice Date: 1627 the track left by a moving body (as a ship) in a fluid (as water), aftermath 3 ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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