wake
noun
- vigil held over the dead before burial
- region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary solid body
verb
- to rouse (a person or animal) from or as if from sleep
- have a viewing for the dead
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪk/ / /ˈweɪ̯k/ / [ˈweɪ̯k] / /ˈweːk/
name
Etymology: English and Scottish surname from Old Norse vakr (“vigilant, wakeful”).
- 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[…]”
- Ellipsis of Wake County.
“Mr. Boylan was public-spirited and progressive. He first saw the possibilities, and set the example of raising great quantities of cotton on the uplands of Wake.[...]Governor Swain says of him that he was dignified and grave, and it also is sure that he must have been charitable, for he is responsible for the building of the first county poor-house in Wake.”
“Trade with the Indians. — There is every likelihood that the brisk trade that flourished between the settlers on the coast and the Indians in the interior, both before and after the Tuscarora War, included trade in and through the woods of Wake. Although the “Trading Path to the Indians” described by William Byrd in 1728 when surveying the Virginia-Carolina dividing line passed to the north and west of Wake, there was trading through Wake’s forests. The celebrated “Green’s Path” from eastern Virginia toward the southward lay along portions of the present boundary line between Wake and Johnston counties; and the “Pee Dee Trail” traversed southern Wake County on its east-west route between Johnston and Chatham counties.”
- 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.”
“It takes only a brief glimpse at a 1941 map of the Pacific to see why Wake Island was considered to be of such strategic value to the United States and why it was such an early target in Japan's program of conquest. As the war planners on both sides saw the situation in the late 1930s, possession of Wake was vital to the defense of their territory.”
noun
Etymology: 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”).
- The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
- The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- The area behind a moving person or object.
“The player left the rest of the field trailing in her wake.”
“This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.”
- The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
verb
Etymology: 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.
- (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
“I woke up at four o'clock this morning.”
“How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.”
- (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
“The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.”
“And the Angell that talked with me, came againe and waked me, […]”
- 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.”
“Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.”
- 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,”
“Then wake, my soul, to high desires, And earlier light thine altar fires: […]”
- 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; […]”
- 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;”
“And oft though wiſdom wake, ſuspicion ſleeps At wiſdoms Gate,”
- To be alert; to keep watch
“Command unto the guards that they diligently wake.”
- 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.”