to wake

Definition of to wake in English English dictionary: 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; {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; woke; 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 number of vultures assembled together; 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"; The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft; 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