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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shaker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cocktail shaker
salt shaker
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
salt
▪ Show them the salt shaker and ask how salt could help. 3.
▪ Amelia seemed to pout, playing with a salt shaker.
▪ Clocks, salt and pepper shakers and tea pots will delight as they are put in daily service.
▪ Jim picked up a salt shaker and pretended it was a microphone.
■ NOUN
cocktail
▪ Business and pleasure only mix when you're wielding the cocktail shaker.
▪ Automatic mops and aluminum cocktail shakers.
pepper
▪ He was shaking food into the aquarium, holding a container like a pepper shaker, sprinkling Vitablend into the water.
▪ Clocks, salt and pepper shakers and tea pots will delight as they are put in daily service.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mover and shaker
▪ McKee was one of the city's movers and shakers in the late 19th century.
▪ As the movers and shakers of this peculiar saga, Bonnaire and Huppert are unnerving and fascinating to watch together.
▪ He has firm alliances with cable movers and shakers like John Malone.
▪ In doing so, organizers reportedly alienated traditional movers and shakers.
▪ Most of the movers and shakers in society know that they will not be affected.
▪ The annual crowd of movers and shakers at the National Press Foundation dinner presents a good example.
▪ The league brings together a cross-section of Tucson, the young and old, the movers and shakers.
▪ Through it all, Tatum maintained his posture of mover and shaker, champion of democracy, doer of good deeds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clocks, salt and pepper shakers and tea pots will delight as they are put in daily service.
▪ The chief shaker was Father Vic.
▪ The music is lively with drums and dried bean shakers.
▪ The nest is agitated by the shaker for a predetermined time interval, usually 15-20 minutes.
▪ Through it all, Tatum maintained his posture of mover and shaker, champion of democracy, doer of good deeds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shaker

Shaker \Shak"er\, n.

  1. A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.

  2. One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship.

    Note: The sect originated in England in 1747, and came to the United States in 1774, under the leadership of Mother Ann Lee. The Shakers are sometimes nicknamed Shaking Quakers, but they differ from the Quakers in doctrine and practice. They style themselves the ``United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.'' The sect is now confined in the United States.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) A variety of pigeon.
    --P. J. Selby.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shaker

mid-15c., "one who or which shakes," agent noun from shake (v.). Applied from 1640s (with capital initial) to various Christian sects whose devotional exercises often involved convulsions. The best-known, the American-based "Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing;" so called from 1784; the adjective with reference to furniture styles associated with these Shakers is recorded from 1866. Meaning "container for mixing cocktails, etc." is recorded from 1868. Phrase movers and shakers is attested from 1874.

Wiktionary
shaker

n. 1 A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. 2 A variety of pigeon. 3 One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered. 4 A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.

WordNet
shaker
  1. n. a person who wields power and influence; "a shaker of traditional beliefs"; "movers and shakers in the business world" [syn: mover and shaker]

  2. a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world

  3. a container in which something can be shaken

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Wikipedia
Shaker (instrument)

The word shaker describes a large number of percussive musical instruments used for creating rhythm in music.

They are called shaker because the method of creating the sound involves shaking them—moving them back and forth rather than striking them. Most may also be struck for a greater accent on certain beats. Shakers are often used in rock and other popular styles to provide the ride pattern along with or substituting for the ride cymbal.

Shaker (laboratory)

A shaker is a piece of laboratory equipment used to mix, blend, or to agitate substances in tube(s) or flask(s) by shaking them, which is mainly used in the fields of chemistry and biology. A shaker contains an oscillating board which is used to place the flasks, beakers, test tubes, etc. Although the magnetic stirrer has come to replace the uses of shaker lately, the shaker is still a preferred choice of equipment when dealing with such large volume substances, or simultaneous agitation is required.

Shaker (testing device)

A shaker is a device used in vibration testing to excite the structure either for endurance testing or modal testing.

Shaker (album)

Shaker is the second and final album David Johansen recorded with the Harry Smiths. The album was released in 2002 by Chesky Records and continues highlighting the folk style music from the previous album, David Johansen and the Harry Smiths. Additionally, the album brings in blues music with songs from Son House, Muddy Waters and Charlie Patton.

Shaker is currently the last album David Johansen has released as a solo artist since reuniting and returning to the New York Dolls in 2004.

Shaker (disambiguation)

Shaker may refer to:

  • Cocktail shaker, a container used to mix alcoholic drinks
  • Salt shaker, used to dispense salt
  • Shaker (codename), long-burning illuminating flares dropped from Bomber Command aircraft during World War II
  • Shaker (laboratory), a device used to stir liquids in chemistry and biology
  • Shaker gene, which codes for voltage-gated potassium channels in neurons
  • Shaker (percussion), an indirect struck idiophone
  • Shaker (testing device), a vibration device used in endurance testing or modal testing
  • Shaker scoop, an auto component

Shakers may refer to:

  • Shakers, United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, who espoused celibacy and pacifism
  • Indian Shaker Church, Pacific Northwest U.S.A. religious sect influenced by American Indian culture
  • Bury F.C., an English football club, nicknamed "The Shakers"
  • The Shakers, Uruguayan band a.k.a. Los Shakers
  • The Shakers (U.S. band), alternative folk band now known as The Royal Court of China
Shaker (Lil Shaker)

Elikplim Yao Atiemo (born in Accra, Ghana), better known by his stage name Shaker (Lil Shaker), is a Ghanaian recording artist, songwriter, producer and performer. He started his musical career at age 15. He is currently signed to Ghana's biggest record label and multimedia company, BBnZ Live.

Usage examples of "shaker".

Shakers axed me to go to their meetin, as they was to hav sarvices that mornin, so I put on a clean biled rag and went.

Though she had already been well briefed on who would and would not be present, the seating arrangements, and which of the delegation were figureheads, and which were the real movers and shakers in Congress, her staff could not tell her what the attitude of the senators and congressmen would be at the time of the meeting.

Shaker pegs upon which to hang coats, a heavy wrought iron boot scraper, and big standing bootjack and a long, massive oak table.

Everybody knows all about the Pythagorean craze, its rise in Boston, its rapid spread, and its subsequent consolidation with mental and Christian science, theosophy, hypnotism, the Salvation Army, the Shakers, the Dunkards, and the mind-cure cult, upon a business basis.

American, from Bohemia Manor, Woman in the Wilderness and Ephrata, through the Shakers, Owenites and Fourierists, to Brook Farm and Oneida.

At the same time he signaled to the waiter, who brought him another glass of maha, setting a plastic shaker of cinnamon next to it.

Captain of all the Mongs and high servant to Khad Tambur, Scourge of the World and Shaker of the Universe.

If the Data Bank has obliterated all record of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, the Rappites, New Harmony, and many more, the fact should have been played up.

Alice pointed her forkful of fried egg at the wall next to the kitchen window, where painted shelves held the things Helen had started and stopped collecting over the years saltcellars, vintage salt and pepper shakers, cobalt blue glassware.

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.

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Wu and Liu Dahong had studied with the same kungfu Master, and Shaker had quite a reputation on River and Lake.

I ordered two vodka martinis and we exchanged inane remarks while I watched him pour a stream of vodka into a silver shaker and add a stingy dash of vermouth.

She pushed salt and pepper shakers into a circle and mimed squinting through them.

With all the new movers and shakers pushing their way into her circle of influence, Star Catcher had to be out there as much as possible.