What part of speech is shakes?

Shakes can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. shakes is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of shake (infinitive).
  • 2. shakes is a noun, plural of shake.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does shakes mean?

Definitions

Verb
shake - move or cause to move back and forth; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking"
shake - move with or as if with a tremor; "his hands shook"
shake - shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state; "shake one's head"; "She shook her finger at the naughty students"; "The old enemies shook hands"; "Don't shake your fist at me!"
shake - undermine or cause to waver; "my faith has been shaken"; "The bad news shook her hopes"
shake - bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking; "He was shaken from his dreams"; "shake the salt out of the salt shaker"
shake - get rid of; "I couldn't shake the car that was following me"
shake - stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
shake - move back and forth or sideways; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet"
shake - shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively; "The old engine was juddering"

Noun
shake - The act of shaking something.
shake - A milkshake.
shake - A beverage made by adding ice cream to a usually carbonated drink; a float.
shake - Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
shake - A thin shingle.
shake - A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
shake - A fissure in rock or earth.
shake - One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
shake - A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
shake - A shook of staves and headings.
shake - The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
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Examples of shakes

#   Sentence  
1. verb On being introduced to somebody, a British person often shakes hands.
2. verb My house always shakes when a truck goes by.
3. verb He nods and shakes the spheres.
4. verb Kei is startled by that question, but shakes her head as it to say that it's nothing.
5. verb Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.
6. verb When the train goes through the station, the windows rattle noisily and the whole house shakes.
7. verb Tom shakes his spear in anger at bear.
8. verb The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
9. verb Tom is good at making milk shakes.
10. verb "Troy once more / shakes off her ten years' sorrow. Open stand / the gates. With joy to the abandoned shore, / the places bare of foes, the Dorian lines we pour."
11. verb As when a wounded bull / shakes from his neck the faltering axe and, fain / to fly the cruel altars, roars in pain.
12. verb "Here, where thou seest the riven piles o'erthrown, / mixt dust and smoke, rock torn from rock away, / great Neptune's trident shakes the bulwarks down, / and from its lowest base uproots the trembling town."
13. verb Sami's voice shakes when he talks about it.
14. verb Look at my grandpa having coffee, look how he shakes it.
15. verb The way this bridge shakes is worrying.
16. noun We felt the house shake.
17. noun Feeling the house shake, I ran out into the street.
18. noun Feeling the house shake, I ran outside.
19. noun Feeling the house shake, I ran out into the yard at the back of the house.
20. noun As soon as he felt his house shake, he rushed out into the garden.
21. noun I felt the house shake.
22. noun Let's shake hands and be friends.
23. noun Please shake hands.
24. noun Did you feel the earth shake last night?
25. noun Let's shake on it.
26. noun The police were heading for a shake down.
27. noun Did you feel the earth shake just now?
28. noun I felt the floor shake.
29. noun I felt the earth shake.
30. noun He gave an angry shake of his head.
Sentence  
verb
On being introduced to somebody, a British person often shakes hands.
My house always shakes when a truck goes by.
He nods and shakes the spheres.
Kei is startled by that question, but shakes her head as it to say that it's nothing.
Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.
When the train goes through the station, the windows rattle noisily and the whole house shakes.
Tom shakes his spear in anger at bear.
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
Tom is good at making milk shakes.
"Troy once more / shakes off her ten years' sorrow. Open stand / the gates. With joy to the abandoned shore, / the places bare of foes, the Dorian lines we pour."
As when a wounded bull / shakes from his neck the faltering axe and, fain / to fly the cruel altars, roars in pain.
"Here, where thou seest the riven piles o'erthrown, / mixt dust and smoke, rock torn from rock away, / great Neptune's trident shakes the bulwarks down, / and from its lowest base uproots the trembling town."
Sami's voice shakes when he talks about it.
Look at my grandpa having coffee, look how he shakes it.
The way this bridge shakes is worrying.
noun
We felt the house shake.
Feeling the house shake, I ran out into the street.
Feeling the house shake, I ran outside.
Feeling the house shake, I ran out into the yard at the back of the house.
As soon as he felt his house shake, he rushed out into the garden.
I felt the house shake.
Let's shake hands and be friends.
Please shake hands.
Did you feel the earth shake last night?
Let's shake on it.
The police were heading for a shake down.
Did you feel the earth shake just now?
I felt the floor shake.
I felt the earth shake.
He gave an angry shake of his head.
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