Wake vs. Awake

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Wakeverb

(intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.

Wakeverb

(transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.

Wakeverb

To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.

Wakeverb

To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.

Wakeverb

To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.

Wakeverb

To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

Wakeverb

To be or remain awake; not to sleep.

Wakeverb

(obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch

Wakeverb

(obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

Wakenoun

The act of waking, or state of being awake.

Wakenoun

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

Wakenoun

A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.

Wakenoun

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.

Wakenoun

The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.

Wakenoun

The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.

Wakenoun

(figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.

Wakenoun

A number of vultures assembled together.

Wakenoun

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

Wakenoun

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

Wakenoun

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

Wakenoun

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.

Wakenoun

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

Wakeverb

To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

Wakeverb

To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

Wakeverb

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

Wakeverb

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

Wakeverb

To rouse from sleep; to awake.

Wakeverb

To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.

Wakeverb

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

Wakeverb

To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

Wakenoun

the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event);

Wakenoun

an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

Wakenoun

the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward;

Wakenoun

a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial;

Wakeverb

be awake, be alert, be there

Wakeverb

stop sleeping;

Wakeverb

arouse or excite feelings and passions;

Wakeverb

make aware of;

Wakeverb

cause to become awake or conscious;

Wake

In fluid dynamics, a wake may either be: the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary blunt body, caused by viscosity, which may be accompanied by flow separation and turbulence, or the wave pattern on the water surface downstream of an object in a flow, or produced by a moving object (e.g. a ship), caused by density differences of the fluids above and below the free surface and gravity (or surface tension).

Awakeadjective

Not asleep; conscious.

Awakeadjective

Alert, aware.

Awakeverb

(intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.

Awakeverb

(transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

Awakeverb

(transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.

Awakeverb

To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.

Awakeverb

To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

Awakeverb

To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

Awakeverb

To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.

Awakeverb

To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.

Awakeadjective

Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

Awakeverb

stop sleeping;

Awakeadjective

not in a state of sleep; completely conscious;

Awakeadjective

not unconscious; especially having become conscious;

Awakeadjective

(usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive;

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