wake

Definition von wake im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: to lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects; (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water; (often followed by up) To stop sleeping
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.; A period after a person's death before the body is buried, in some cultures accompanied by a party; A number of vultures assembled together; The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft; {i} trail, trace, track left by ship in water, path of anything that has passed; practice of viewing a dead body in its coffin before the burial; funeral gathering characterized by festive remembrance of the deceased; A foamy swell caused by a boat passing through water; {n} a watch, feast, merriment, mark, track; {v} to cease to sleep, watch, rouse, awake; Trail of disturbed water behind a moving ship; The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army; The trail of waves left by a ship; The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil; A watch kept over the deceased, sometimes lasting the entire night preceding the funeral; Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep. It was work which consumed most of his waking hours; The liquid ramp made by the boat propellers Return to top; arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred"; Moving waves, track or path that a boat leaves behind when moving across the waters; – The track left by a moving boat, ship or other object in the water; it looks like a wave; To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite; To stop sleeping; To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive; If one thing follows in the wake of another, it happens after the other thing is over, often as a result of it. The governor has enjoyed a huge surge in the polls in the wake of last week's convention = following; Waves created by a moving boat; {f} arouse someone or something (as from sleep or inactivity); be aroused (as from sleep or inactivity); cause to be aware; become aware; The Irish practice of watching over the body by candlelight the night before the funeral and the often wild feasting which follows This may have developed simply because mistakes sometimes happened The purpose of the wake, therefore, was to ensure that the deceased was truly dead; To rouse from sleep; to awake; A V-shaped wave produced by the momentum of a passing ship; To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep; The visible track of turbulence left by something moving through water; A meteor train that is so short lived that it appears to move along with the meteor; The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish; To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; often with up; make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"; An expression used by certain religious and ethnic cultures where family members maintain watch over the loved one who has died; The region of turbulence immediately to the rear of a solid body in motion relative to a fluid Under certain conditions a series of vortices may form in the wake and extend downstream; such a vortex train in a turbulent wake is called a vortex street Compare lee eddies; A wake is a gathering or social event that is held before or after someone's funeral. A funeral wake was in progress; A period after a persons death before the body is buried, in some cultures accompanied by a party; If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go. Adam stumbles on, leaving a trail of devastation in his wake; To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel; 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; be awake, be alert, be there; To make somebody stop sleeping; stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"; be awake, be alert, be there make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation; The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake; a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake"; cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM "; the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe"; The visible track of turbulence left by something moving through water ADVANCE \x 540; a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe" be awake, be alert, be there make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation; The form waked is used in American English for the past tense; The wake of a boat or other object moving in water is the track of waves that it makes behind it as it moves through the water. Dolphins sometimes play in the wake of the boats; A region of a flow field located behind a body, which is moving through the air The velocity and the pressure in the wake region can be very different from the external flow field The wake contains information about the lift and the drag of the body that generated it Usually the pressure in the wake behind a body is lower than the pressure in the surrounding flow field The pressure difference corresponds to the drag of the body Lift forces can create strong vortices in a wake, which can make the wake exist for a long time, until it gets dissolved through friction effects; When you wake or when someone or something wakes you, you become conscious again after being asleep. It was cold and dark when I woke at 6.30 Bob woke slowly to sunshine pouring in his window She woke to find her dark room lit by flashing lights She went upstairs to wake Milton. Wake up means the same as wake. One morning I woke up and felt something was wrong At dawn I woke him up and said we were leaving; If you are following in someone's wake, you are following them or their example. In his wake came a waiter wheeling a trolley. the endless stream of female artists who released albums in her wake. to stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping; The wave created behind the boat which is used by a wakeboarder to jump of off or slide; the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"; To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active; To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body; an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii; Agitated water left by the propellers of a passing ship; the region of turbulence immediately behind a solid body caused by the flow of air over or around the body; Moving waves, created by vessel motion Track or path that a boat leaves behind it, when moving across the water; woke
wake flow: The turbulent flow, with many eddies, downstream of a blunt body
wake up: To become more aware of a real-life situation; to concentrate on the matter in hand
wake up: To awaken somebody
wake up: To awake
wake up and smell the coffee: To face reality and stop deluding oneself
wake up on the wrong side of bed: to feel grumpy, irritable; to be easily annoyed
He can't stop shouting at me: he must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
wake-up: An act or instance of waking up
wake-up: An act or instance of being awakened
wake-up call: A telephone call to awaken someone at a certain time, especially one requested by the person while staying at a hotel
She requested a five a.m. wake-up call from the front desk.
wake-up call: An alert, reminder, or call to action caused by a dramatic event
The recent deaths should serve as a wake-up call to others at risk.
wake-up calls: plural form of wake-up call
wake up: awaken, rouse from sleep; make alert
wake up call: a telephone call made at a prearranged time to wake someone up
wake up call: something that alerts people to an unsatisfactory situation
wake up call: (deyim) an event that warns someone that they need to deal with an urgent or dangerous problem
1999 İzmit earthquake was a wake-up call to strengthen the city's buildings.
Wake Island: An island of the western Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Guam. Annexed by the United States in 1898, it was a commercial air base and later a military base. Wake Island was held by the Japanese from 1941 to 1945. Atoll, central Pacific Ocean. An unincorporated territory of the U.S., Wake Island comprises three low-lying coral islets (Wilkes, Peale, and Wake) that surround a lagoon and occupy a total land area of 2.5 sq mi (6.5 sq km). The atoll was claimed by the U.S. in 1899. The U.S. Navy began construction of an air and submarine base in 1939; it was half-completed when Wake was attacked and occupied by Japanese forces in December 1941 after a 15-day resistance by a small contingent of U.S. Marines. Now administered by the U.S. Air Force, it has been used since 1974 as a commercial aircraft emergency stopover. It is also the site of weather research stations. There is no indigenous population on Wake Island, and U.S. military personnel have left, but some 100 civilians remained at the beginning of the 21st century
Wake Island: {i} atoll in the North Pacific Ocean (two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to the Northern Mariana Islands) which forms a part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands
wake board: a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat
wake island: an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
wake up: If something such as an activity wakes you up, it makes you more alert and ready to do things after you have been lazy or inactive. A cool shower wakes up the body and boosts circulation. see also wake 1
wake up: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
wake up: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM "
wake up: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
wake up and smell the coffee: face reality, face the facts, acknowledge the true situation
wake up to: If you wake up to something, you become aware of it. People should wake up to the fact that people with disabilities have got a vote as well
wake-up call: If you say that something is a wake-up call to a person or group of people, you mean that it will make them notice something and start to take action. The Ambassador said he hoped the statement would serve as a wake-up call to the government
wake-up call: A wake-up call is a telephone call that you can book through an operator or at a hotel to make sure that you wake up at a particular time
wake-up call: a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels); "she left a wake-up call for 7 a
wake-up call: " a warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglected; "the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthene domestic security
wake-up call: a warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglected; "the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthene domestic security"
wake-up call: a warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglected; "the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthene domestic security
in the wake of: As a result of
in the wake of: In the noticeable disturbance of water behind (a maritime vessel)
in the wake of: Following
wakeful: vigilant and alert; watchful
wakes: A community holiday, particularly in northern England
wakes: plural form of wake
wakes: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wake
waking: Occurring during wakefulness
It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”.
waking: Present participle of wake
wakefulness: a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world
in wake of: 1. as a result of2. succeeding; following
wakeful: {a} not sleeping well, watchful, awake
wakefully: {a} in a wakeful manner
wakefulness: {n} a want of sleep, watchfulness
waker: Someone who rouses others from sleep. (synonym) rouser, arouser
Finnegan's Wake: a book by James Joyce which is written in a strange style and language that many people find very difficult to understand (1939)
Woke: wook
afraid to wake up: scared to awaken
battle of wake: in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines
in one's wake: in one's tracks, in second place
in the wake of: behind, following after
in the wake of the news: as a result of the news, due to the news
prairie wake-robin: trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers
waked: past of wake
wakeful: sleepless
wakeful: {s} awake; animated; not sleeping
wakeful: Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant
wakeful: Someone who is wakeful finds it difficult to get to sleep and wakes up very often when they should be sleeping. + wakefulness wake·ful·ness It is never a good idea to take sleeping tablets regularly for this kind of wakefulness. a not sleeping or unable to sleep
wakeful: awake rather than sleeping
wakeful: (of sleep) easily disturbed; "in a light doze"; "a light sleeper"; "a restless wakeful night"
wakeful: carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger; "a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchful parent with a toddler in tow"
wakefully: with alertness
wakefulness: a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep
wakefulness: the state of being wakeful
wakefulness: {i} absence of sleep; alertness, vigilance
wakefulness: a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep
waker: someone who rouses others from sleep
waker: a person who awakes; "an early waker"
waker: a person who awakes; "an early waker" someone who rouses others from sleep
waker: One who wakes
wakes: plural of wake
waking: A watch; a watching
waking: Gerund and present participle of verb to wake
waking: The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake
waking: When awake, alert or fully conscious
waking: marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours"
waking: the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of waking"
waking: {s} awake, alert; pertaining to the hours of wakefulness
waking: the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of waking
waking: waking hours/life/day etc all the time when you are awake
woke: Woke is the past tense of wake. A past tense of wake. the past tense of wake
woken: Woken is the past participle of wake. the past participle of wake
woken: past participle of wake