wake : Idioms & Phrases


battle of wake

  • noun in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines
    Battle of Wake.
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battle of wake island

  • noun in December 1941 the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines
    Battle of Wake.
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early wake-robin

  • noun a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States
    dwarf-white trillium; snow trillium.
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Lich wake

  • the wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial. Prov Eng. Chaucer.
Webster 1913

prairie wake-robin

  • noun trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers
    Trillium recurvatum; prairie trillium.
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wake board

  • noun a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat
    wakeboard.
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wake island

  • noun an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
    Wake.
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Wake play

  • the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See Wake, n., 3 (b), above. Obs.
Webster 1913

wake up

  • verb cause to become awake or conscious
    awaken; waken; arouse; wake; rouse.
    • He was roused by the drunken men in the street
    • Please wake me at 6 AM.
  • verb stop sleeping
    waken; come alive; arouse; wake; awake; awaken.
    • She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
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wake-robin

  • noun any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
    trillium; wood lily.
  • noun common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
    Arisaema atrorubens; jack-in-the-pulpit; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip.
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Wake"-rob`in noun
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  1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). ✍ In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
Webster 1913

wake-up call

  • noun a warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglected
    • the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthen domestic security
  • noun a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels)
    • she left a wake-up call for 7 a.m.
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wake-up signal

  • noun (military) signal to wake up
    reveille.
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waking up

  • noun the act of waking
    awakening; wakening.
    • it was an early awakening
    • it was the waking up he hated most
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