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What (who) is Wake - definition
Wake (McMann novel)
NOVEL BY LISA MCMANN
WAKE (novel); Wake (Lisa McMann novel)
Wake (Stylized WAKE) is a novel by Lisa McMann centered on seventeen-year-old Janie Hannagan's involuntary power which thrusts her into others' dreams. The novel follows Janie through parts of her young adulthood, focusing mainly on the events that occur during her senior year, in which she meets an enigmatic elderly woman, and becomes involved with Cabel, a loner and purported drug-dealer at Fieldridge High School.
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wake1
¦ verb (past woke or US, dialect, or archaic waked; past participle woken or US, dialect, or archaic waked)
1. (often wake up) emerge or cause to emerge from a state of sleep; stop sleeping.
(wake up to) become alert to or aware of.
cause to stir or come to life.
2. Irish or N. Amer. dialect hold a vigil beside (someone who has died).
¦ noun
1. a watch or vigil held beside the body of someone who has died.
(especially in Ireland) a party held after a funeral.
2. (wakes) [treated as sing.] an annual festival and holiday in some parts of northern England.
Phrases
be a wake-up Austral./NZ informal be fully alert or aware.
Derivatives
waker noun
Origin
OE (recorded only in the past tense woc), also partly from the weak verb wacian 'remain awake, hold a vigil', of Gmc origin; cf. watch.
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wake2
¦ noun a trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft.
Phrases
in the wake of following as a consequence or result.
Origin
C15: prob. via Mid. Low Ger. from ON v?k, vaka 'hole or opening in ice'.
Wake
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·vt To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
II. Wake ·vt To rouse from sleep; to Awake.
III. Wake ·vi To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
IV. Wake ·noun The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
V. Wake ·vi To be or to continue awake; to Watch; not to sleep.
VI. Wake ·noun The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
VIII. Wake ·vi To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
IX. Wake ·noun The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
X. Wake ·noun The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an Army.
XI. Wake ·vi To be excited or roused from sleep; to Awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep;
- often with up.
XIII. Wake ·noun 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.
Examples of use of Wake
1. We want those who did not wake up until now to wake up.
2. Anita Pinc, credits the rabbit with telling Ed Murphy "Wake up, wake up.
3. I‘d wake up in the morning and sometimes I‘d have no reason to wake up, and that‘s what was missing.‘
4. Wake up, regulators: voluntary regulation has failed.
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