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quake
(encz) | quake,chvět se v: [obec.] mamm |
quake
(encz) | quake,třást se v: [obec.] mamm |
quake
(encz) | quake,zemětřesení n: IvČa |
Quake
(gcide) | Quake \Quake\, v. t. [Cf. AS. cweccan to move, shake. See
Quake, v. t.]
To cause to quake. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Quake
(gcide) | Quake \Quake\, n.
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder;
a quivering.
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Quake
(gcide) | Quake \Quake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quaking.] [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. Quagmire.]
1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually
repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to
tremble. "Quaking for dread." --Chaucer.
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She stood quaking like the partridge on which the
hawk is ready to seize. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid,
as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind;
as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. " Over quaking
bogs." --Macaulay.
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quake
(wn) | quake
n 1: shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting
from underground movement along a fault plane of from
volcanic activity [syn: earthquake, quake, temblor,
seism]
v 1: shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils
palpitated" [syn: quiver, quake, palpitate]
2: shake with seismic vibrations; "The earth was quaking" [syn:
tremor, quake] |
quake
(foldoc) | Quake
A string-oriented language designed to support the
construction of Modula-3 programs from modules, interfaces
and libraries. Written by Stephen Harrison of DEC SRC, 1993.
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earthquake
(encz) | earthquake,zemětřesení |
earthquakes
(encz) | earthquakes,zemětřesení |
quake in his boots
(encz) | quake in his boots, |
quaked
(encz) | quaked,otřesený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
quaker
(encz) | quaker,kvaker n: přezdívka člena náboženské společnosti vzniklé v Anglii
a rozšířené i v USA, sami kvakeři se tak nenazývají sheeryjay |
quakeress
(encz) | Quakeress, |
quakerism
(encz) | Quakerism, |
quakerization
(encz) | Quakerization, |
quakerizations
(encz) | Quakerizations, |
quakerize
(encz) | Quakerize, |
quakerizes
(encz) | Quakerizes, |
quakers
(encz) | quakers,osoba třesoucí se strachem Zdeněk BrožQuakers,kvakeři n: sekta, Náboženská Společnost Přátel (založená George
Foxem okolo 1660) sheeryjay |
quakes
(encz) | quakes,otřesy n: pl. Zdeněk Brožquakes,zemětřesení n: pl. IvČa |
seaquake
(encz) | seaquake, n: |
submarine earthquake
(encz) | submarine earthquake, n: |
Cowquake
(gcide) | Cowquake \Cow"quake`\ (-kw[=a]k`), n. (Bot.)
A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass.
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Earthquake
(gcide) | Earthquake \Earth"quake`\, n.
A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to
subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise.
The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere,
destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also
earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock.
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Earthquake alarm, a bell signal constructed to operate on
the theory that a few seconds before the occurrence of an
earthquake the magnet temporarily loses its power.
[1913 Webster]Earthquake \Earth"quake`\, a.
Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; startling.
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The earthquake voice of victory. --Byron.
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Earthquake alarm
(gcide) | Earthquake \Earth"quake`\, n.
A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to
subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise.
The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere,
destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also
earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock.
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Earthquake alarm, a bell signal constructed to operate on
the theory that a few seconds before the occurrence of an
earthquake the magnet temporarily loses its power.
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Fleshquake
(gcide) | Fleshquake \Flesh"quake`\, n.
A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. [Obs.] --B.
Jonson.
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Heartquake
(gcide) | Heartquake \Heart"quake`\ (-kw[=a]k`), n.
Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.
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In many an hour of danger and heartquake. --Hawthorne.
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Icequake
(gcide) | Icequake \Ice"quake`\ ([imac]s"kw[=a]k`), n.
The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses
of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.
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Quake
(gcide) | Quake \Quake\, v. t. [Cf. AS. cweccan to move, shake. See
Quake, v. t.]
To cause to quake. [Obs.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Quake \Quake\, n.
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder;
a quivering.
[1913 Webster]Quake \Quake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quaking.] [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. Quagmire.]
1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually
repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to
tremble. "Quaking for dread." --Chaucer.
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She stood quaking like the partridge on which the
hawk is ready to seize. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid,
as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind;
as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. " Over quaking
bogs." --Macaulay.
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Quaked
(gcide) | Quake \Quake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quaking.] [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. Quagmire.]
1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually
repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to
tremble. "Quaking for dread." --Chaucer.
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She stood quaking like the partridge on which the
hawk is ready to seize. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid,
as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind;
as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. " Over quaking
bogs." --Macaulay.
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Quaker
(gcide) | Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
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2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of
Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of
which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers,
originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
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Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of
repentance . . . The trembling among the listening
crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given
to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
lay struggling as if for life. --Encyc. Brit.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) The nankeen bird.
(b) The sooty albatross.
(c) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus Edipoda; --
so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
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Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica.
Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material;
-- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold
to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
Quaker ladies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant
(Houstonia c[ae]rulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas
which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
called bluets, and little innocents.
[1913 Webster]Nankeen \Nan*keen"\, n. [So called from its being originally
manufactured at Nankin (Nanjing), in China.] [Written also
nankin.]
1. A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought
from China, made of a species of cotton ({Gossypium
religiosum}) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color
quite indestructible and permanent.
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2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
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3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton.
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Nankeen bird (Zool.), the Australian night heron
(Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.
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quaker
(gcide) | Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
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2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of
Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of
which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers,
originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
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Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of
repentance . . . The trembling among the listening
crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given
to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
lay struggling as if for life. --Encyc. Brit.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) The nankeen bird.
(b) The sooty albatross.
(c) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus Edipoda; --
so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
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Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica.
Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material;
-- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold
to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
Quaker ladies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant
(Houstonia c[ae]rulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas
which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
called bluets, and little innocents.
[1913 Webster]Nankeen \Nan*keen"\, n. [So called from its being originally
manufactured at Nankin (Nanjing), in China.] [Written also
nankin.]
1. A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought
from China, made of a species of cotton ({Gossypium
religiosum}) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color
quite indestructible and permanent.
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2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
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3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton.
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Nankeen bird (Zool.), the Australian night heron
(Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.
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Quaker buttons
(gcide) | Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
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2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of
Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of
which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers,
originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
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Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of
repentance . . . The trembling among the listening
crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given
to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
lay struggling as if for life. --Encyc. Brit.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) The nankeen bird.
(b) The sooty albatross.
(c) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus Edipoda; --
so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
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Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica.
Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material;
-- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold
to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
Quaker ladies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant
(Houstonia c[ae]rulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas
which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
called bluets, and little innocents.
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Quaker gun
(gcide) | Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
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2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of
Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of
which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers,
originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
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Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of
repentance . . . The trembling among the listening
crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given
to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
lay struggling as if for life. --Encyc. Brit.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) The nankeen bird.
(b) The sooty albatross.
(c) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus Edipoda; --
so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
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Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica.
Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material;
-- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold
to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
Quaker ladies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant
(Houstonia c[ae]rulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas
which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
called bluets, and little innocents.
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Quaker ladies
(gcide) | Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
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2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of
Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of
which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers,
originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
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Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of
repentance . . . The trembling among the listening
crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given
to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
lay struggling as if for life. --Encyc. Brit.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) The nankeen bird.
(b) The sooty albatross.
(c) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus Edipoda; --
so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
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Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica.
Quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material;
-- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold
to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
Quaker ladies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant
(Houstonia c[ae]rulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas
which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
called bluets, and little innocents.
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Quakeress
(gcide) | Quakeress \Quak"er*ess\, n.
A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
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Quakerish
(gcide) | Quakerish \Quak"er*ish\, a.
Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
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Quakerism
(gcide) | Quakerism \Quak"er*ism\, n.
The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the
Quakers.
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Quakerlike
(gcide) | Quakerlike \Quak"er*like\, a.
Like a Quaker.
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Quakerly
(gcide) | Quakerly \Quak"er*ly\, a.
Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish. --Macaulay.
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Quakery
(gcide) | Quakery \Quak"er*y\, n.
Quakerism. [Obs.] --Hallywell.
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Quaketail
(gcide) | Quaketail \Quake"tail`\, n. (Zool.)
A wagtail.
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Seaquake
(gcide) | Seaquake \Sea"quake`\ (s[=e]"kw[=a]k`), n.
A quaking of the sea.
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earthquake
(wn) | earthquake
n 1: shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting
from underground movement along a fault plane of from
volcanic activity [syn: earthquake, quake, temblor,
seism]
2: a disturbance that is extremely disruptive; "selling the
company caused an earthquake among the employees" |
quaker
(wn) | Quaker
n 1: a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by
George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves
Quakers) [syn: Friend, Quaker]
2: one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear [syn:
quaker, trembler] |
quaker gun
(wn) | Quaker gun
n 1: a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood |
quakerism
(wn) | Quakerism
n 1: the theological doctrine of the Society of Friends
characterized by opposition to war and rejection of ritual
and a formal creed and an ordained ministry |
quakers
(wn) | Quakers
n 1: a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly
called Quakers [syn: Religious Society of Friends,
Society of Friends, Quakers] |
seaquake
(wn) | seaquake
n 1: an earthquake at the sea bed [syn: seaquake, {submarine
earthquake}] |
submarine earthquake
(wn) | submarine earthquake
n 1: an earthquake at the sea bed [syn: seaquake, {submarine
earthquake}] |
earthquake
(foldoc) | earthquake
(IBM) The ultimate real-world shock test for computer
hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the
San Francisco Bay Area quake of 1989 was initiated by the
company to test quality-assurance procedures at its California
plants.
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(1995-04-22)
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QUAKER
(bouvier) | QUAKERS. A sect of Christians.
2. Formerly they were much persecuted on account of their peaceable
principles which forbade them to bear arms, and they were denied many rights
because they refused to make corporal oath. They are relieved in a great
degree from the consequent penalties for refusing to bear arms; and their
affirmations are everywhere in the United States, as is believed, taken
instead of their oaths.
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