shaking adj : vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands" [syn: quaking, quivering, shaky, shivering, trembling]

1 the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements

2 a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitation]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ

Verb

shaking

1. present participle of shake

Shake can refer to:

• Tremor
• Milkshake
• Handshake
• Shake (software), an image compositing package produced by Apple Inc.
• Shake (defragmentation utility), a largely filesystem‐independent defragmentation tool for Linux-based systems
• SHAKE algorithm, a time integration algorithm for molecular dynamics simulation
• Master Shake, a sentient milkshake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Shake (shingle), a wooden shingle made from split logs
• Shake (cannabis), the small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag
• Shake (time), an informal unit of time equal to ten nanoseconds
• Shake (John Schlitt album), an album released by singer John Schlitt
• Shake (Zucchero album), an album by Zucchero
• A shake on a brass instrument, especially the trumpet, implies quickly slurring to a note above the written note
• "Shake" (Sam Cooke song)
• "Shake!" (The Time song)
• "Shake" (Ying Yang Twins song)

See also

• Shook (disambiguation)
• Shaked (disambiguation)
• Shaken (disambiguation)
• Shaker (disambiguation)
• Shakes (disambiguation)
• Shake It

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