Crossword clues for quake
quake
- Frequent occurrence in California
- Earth-shaking event
- Tremble, as in fear
- Show trepidation
- Seismic episode
- Reason for 2011 relief efforts
- Product of a fault
- One might scare a visitor to California
- Moving experience, of a sort
- Mover and shaker?
- First-person shooter of 1996
- Fault product
- Fault plane phenomenon
- Famed first-person shooter game
- Event near a fault line
- Event in tectonics
- Earthshaking occurrence
- Earthshaking news?
- Cereal that lost to Quisp in a 1970s contest
- Betray fright
- 1906 San Francisco event
- Temblor
- Show fear
- Faultfinder's concern?
- Seismic occurrence
- California worry
- Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
- It can move mountains
- Tremble in fear
- Tragic 1980 event in Italy
- Richter-scale item
- Seismologist's concern
- Earth tremor
- Shudder with fear
- Earth mover
- Seismic event
- Seismograph detection, briefly
- Earthshaking event
- Shake with fear
- Betray fear
- It may have an aftershock
- Groundswell cause
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quake \Quake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Quaking.] [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. Quagmire.]
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To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. ``Quaking for dread.''
--Chaucer.She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.
--Sir P. Sidney. 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.
Quake \Quake\, n. A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
Quake \Quake\, v. t. [Cf. AS. cweccan to move, shake. See
Quake, v. t.]
To cause to quake. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cwacian "quake, tremble, chatter (of teeth)," related to cweccan "to shake, swing, move, vibrate," of unknown origin with no certain cognates outside English. Perhaps somehow imitative. In reference to earth tremors, probably by c.1200. Related: Quaked; quaking.
early 14c., "a trembling in fear," from quake (v.). Rare except in combinations. Now usually as a shortening of earthquake, in which use it is attested from 1640s. Old English had the verbal noun cwacung "shaking, trembling."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tremble or shake. 2 An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force. vb. 1 (lb en intransitive) To tremble or shake. 2 (lb en transitive obsolete) To cause to tremble or shake.
WordNet
n. shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity [syn: earthquake, temblor, seism]
Wikipedia
Quake is a first-person shooter video game, developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive in 1996. It features music composed by Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. It is the first game in the Quake series. In the game, players must find their way through various maze-like, medieval environments while battling a variety of monsters using a wide array of weapons.
The successor to id Software's Doom series, Quake built upon the technology and gameplay of its predecessor. Unlike the Doom engine before it, the Quake engine offered full real-time 3D rendering and had early support for 3D acceleration through OpenGL. After Doom helped popularize multiplayer deathmatches, Quake added various multiplayer options. Online multiplayer became increasingly common, with the QuakeWorld update and software such as QuakeSpy making the process of finding and playing against others on the Internet easier and more reliable.
Programmer Michael Abrash had stated in a 2013 interview that Quake is his favourite game "of all time."
Quake is a series of first-person shooter video games, starting with the game of the same name.
Quake is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers series.
Quake, also known as Aftershock and The Stalker, is a United States Suspense thriller TV movie, released on June 23, 1992. The film starred Steve Railsback and Erika Anderson. The film was directed by Louis Morneau.
Quake is a 2003 album by cellist Erik Friedlander which was released on the Cryptogramophone label featuring the quartet that previously appeared on Topaz .
Quake primarily means an earthquake, a shaking of the earth's surface.
Quake may also refer to:
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Quake (video game)
- Quake (series), the subsequent franchise
- Quake engine, game engine that was written to power 1996's Quake
- Quake II engine, upgraded from the Quake engine
- Quake (natural phenomenon), surface shaking on interstellar bodies in general
- Quake (Transformers), one of several characters in the Transformers universe
- Quake (album), a 2003 album by cellist Erik Friedlander
- Quake (film), a television movie
- Quake Inc., a media company
- Quake, a superhero code name used by the Marvel Comics character, Daisy Johnson
- Quake, a ready-to-eat cereal marketed with Quisp
Usage examples of "quake".
As the sleep-walker waked with pain, White-clothed in the midnight blast, Doth stare and quake, and stride again To houseward all aghast.
But somethingperhaps a quake caused by the Tyre Macula nuclear devicehad deflated its insulating raft, and perhaps some biowar macroform had destroyed its heat sink.
The microseisms, hundreds of tiny earthquake waves coming from the crust strains, could help predict the location and force of the major quake.
It was not music that the little maiden made to her ear, but only motion to her body, and just as the deaf who are deaf alone are sometimes found to take pleasure in all forms of percussion, and to derive from them some of the sensations of sound--the trembling of the air after thunder, the quivering of the earth after cannon, and the quaking of vast walls after the ringing of mighty bells--so Naomi, who was blind as well and had no sense save touch, found in her fingers, which had gathered up the force of all the other senses, the power to reproduce on this instrument of music the movement of things that moved about her--the patter of the leaves of the fig-tree in the patio of her home, the swirl of the great winds on the hill-top, the plash of rain on her face, and the rippling of the levanter in her hair.
She leaned back, propping on her arms as he moved lower, his lips and tongue producing pleasurable quakes inside of her as he made his way down her stomach to her belly, sending flurries of goose bumps racing across her flesh.
And all this time, while they struggled and fought, blackened with powder and parched with thirst, spilling their blood as though it were water, the man who called himself their King was spurring over the countryside with a loose rein and a quaking heart, his thoughts centred upon saving his own neck, come what might to his gallant followers.
I have mathematically calculated the effects of a Richter seven epicentered on the Kuril subduction trench twenty K from this island and have mapped an area on the plain above us that I believe will not be affected by the quake.
But even in my quaking fear I knew anything was better than going back down into that termite colony.
From Catahouatehe they entered Lake Salvator, and after that the world known as the prairie tremblant, the quaking lands: salt marsh, reeds, birds, February sky.
A black woman sporting an over-funded afro was administering to some of the victims of the quake.
Chaim was brilliant and fluent in his own field, but to expect this ancient, tiny, quaking man with the weak-and perhaps now nonexistent-voice to call down the Antichrist, to rally the very remnant of Israel, to stand against the forces of Satan?
He felt a drop of cold, sudden on his shoulder, and the scattered parts of him drew at once together like shattered bits of quicksilver, to leave him quaking and appalled.
He was keenly aware that, hidden by the buffcoat, the small pistol was pointed directly at his quaking body, and the Arab had assured him, besides, that he had ready an envenomed dagger.
I could hear them tearing at each other, and the sharp cries of pain, first one and then another gave as claw or tooth got home, and all the time, though the ground was quaking under their struggles and the air full of horrible uproar, not a thing was to be seen.
Logger Hilton, the mate, was trying to make sense out of the tattered charts, and La Cucaracha, her engines quaking at the suicidal thought, was plunging ahead through space into the Big Night.