1. • noun - building material used as siding or roofing
   • noun - frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
   • noun - a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
   • noun - grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
   • noun - a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
   • noun - causing to move repeatedly from side to side
   • verb - move or cause to move back and forth
   • verb - move with or as if with a tremor
   • verb - shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
   • verb - move back and forth or sideways
   • verb - undermine or cause to waver
   • verb - stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
   • verb - get rid of
   • verb - bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
   • verb - shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
2. • To cause to move to and fro with jerky movements.
   • To cause to quiver, tremble, vibrate, or rock.
   • To cause to lose stability or waver: a crisis that shook my deepest beliefs.
   • To remove or dislodge by jerky movements: shook the dust from the cushions.
   • To bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking: “It is not easy to shake one’s heart free of the impression” (John Middleton Murry).
   • To get rid of: couldn’t shake the man who was following us.
   • To disturb or agitate; unnerve: She was shaken by the news of the disaster.
   • To brandish or wave, especially in anger: shake one’s fist.
   • To clasp (hands) in greeting or leave-taking or as a sign of agreement.
   • To trill (a note).
   • Games.
   • To move to and fro in short, irregular, often jerky movements.
   • To tremble, as from cold or in anger.
   • To be unsteady; totter or waver.
   • To move something vigorously up and down or from side to side, as in mixing.
   • To trill.
   • To shake hands: Let’s shake on it.
   • The act of shaking.
   • A trembling or quivering movement.
   • An earthquake.
   • A fissure in rock.
   • A crack in timber caused by wind or frost.
   • A moment or an instant; a trice: I’ll do it in a shake.
   • A trill.
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   • A beverage in which the ingredients are mixed by shaking.
   • Uncontrollable trembling, as in a person who is cold, frightened, feverish, or ill.
   • A bargain or deal: getting a fair shake.
   • To extort money from.
   • To make a thorough search of: shook down the prisoners’ cells for hidden weapons.
   • To subject (a new ship or aircraft) to shakedown testing.
   • To become acclimated or accustomed, as to a new environment or a new job.
   • To upset by or as if by a physical jolt or shock: was badly shaken up by the accident.
   • To escape from or get rid of: We managed to give our pursuers the shake.
   • To dance.
   • To arouse to action or reaction; disturb: “[He] so shook Hollywood’s tree that... all manner of... people called me unsolicited to itemize his mistakes or praise his courage” (Tina Brown).
3. • adj - to move to and fro with short, rapid movements [v SHOOK, SHAKEN, SHAKING, SHAKES] : SHAKABLE

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