Wake

[weɪk] or [wek]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; 'there's no weeping at an Irish wake'.

(noun.) the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; 'the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe'.

(verb.) be awake, be alert, be there.

(verb.) make aware of; 'His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation'.

編輯:思朋斯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.

(v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

(v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

(v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.

(v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.

(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.

(v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.

(v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.

(v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

(n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.

(n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.

(n.) An annual 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, often to excess.

(n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.

哈迪編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [1]. Watch, be awake, not be asleep.[2]. Awake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep.[3]. Revel, carouse, feast.

v. a. [1]. Awaken, waken, rouse from sleep.[2]. Arouse, rouse, excite, kindle, stimulate, provoke, stir up.

n. [1]. Vigil, watching.[2]. Track (of a vessel), trail.

克拉丽斯編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Rouse, suscitate, excite, reanimate, revive, awake, watch, revel, evoke,summon, provoke, call

ANT:Soothe, allay, appease, lay, hush, lullaby, mesmerize, tranquilize, quiet

手打:奥拉夫

解釋/意思:

n. the streak of smooth water left in the track of a ship: hence (fig.) 'in the wake of ' in the train of immediately after.

v.i. to cease from sleep: to lie awake: (B.) to watch: to be roused up active or vigilant: to return to life: (Shak.) to hold a late revel: to keep vigil.—v.t. to rouse from sleep: to keep vigil over: to excite disturb: to reanimate:—pa.t. and pa.p. waked or woke.—n. act of waking: feast of the dedication of a church formerly kept by watching all night: sitting up of persons with a corpse.—adj. Wake′ful being awake: indisposed to sleep: vigilant.—adv. Wake′fully.—n. Wake′fulness.—v.t. and v.i. Wā′ken to wake or awake: to be awake.—ns. Wake′ner one who or that which wakens; Wake′ning act of one who wakens; (Scots law) revival of an action; Wā′ker one who wakes.—adj. Wake′rife (Scot.) wakeful.—ns. Wake′-time time during which one is awake; Wā′king.—adj. being awake: rousing from sleep: passed in the waking state.

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