'Wake' definitions:

Definition of 'wake'

From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: aftermath, wake, backwash]
noun
An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii [syn: Wake Island, Wake]
noun
The wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe" [syn: wake, backwash]
noun
A vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" [syn: wake, viewing]
verb
Be awake, be alert, be there [ant: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep, slumber]
verb
Stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off]
verb
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" [syn: inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up]
verb
Make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"
verb
Cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep]

Definition of 'Wake'

From: GCIDE
  • Wake \Wake\, v. t.
  • 1. To rouse from sleep; to awake. [1913 Webster]
  • The angel . . . came again and waked me. --Zech. iv. 1. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. "I shall waken all this company." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. [1913 Webster]
  • To second life Waked in the renovation of the just. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Wake'

From: GCIDE
  • Wake \Wake\, n. [Originally, an open space of water s?rrounded by ice, and then, the passage cut through ice for a vessel, probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. v["o]k a hole, opening in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage, perhaps akin to E. humid.] The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. [1913 Webster]
  • This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
  • Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Wake'

From: GCIDE
  • Wake \Wake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wakedor Woke (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Waking.] [AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka, OS. wak?n, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahh?n, Icel. vaka, Sw. vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., Skr. v[=a]jay to rouse, to impel. ????. Cf. Vigil, Wait, v. i., Watch, v. i.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. [1913 Webster]
  • The father waketh for the daughter. --Ecclus. xlii. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. [1913 Webster]
  • The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]
  • He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. [1913 Webster]
  • Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Then wake, my soul, to high desires. --Keble. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Wake'

From: GCIDE
  • Wake \Wake\, n.
  • 1. The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake. [Obs. or Poetic] [1913 Webster]
  • Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Singing her flatteries to my morning wake. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. [1913 Webster]
  • The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Specifically: (a) (Ch. of Eng.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England. --Ld. Berners. [1913 Webster]
  • And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer. --Drayton. [1913 Webster] (b) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish. "Blithe as shepherd at a wake." --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • Wake play, the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'wake'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Wake -- U.S. County in North Carolina

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wake -- U.S. County in North Carolina
Population (2000) :
627846
Housing Units (2000) :
258953
Land area (2000) :
831.923863 sq. miles (2154.672822 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
25.331901 sq. miles (65.609320 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
857.255764 sq. miles (2220.282142 sq. km)
Located within :
North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location :
35.796512 N, 78.665751 W

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