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Shake vs Reflex - What's the difference?

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Shake is a related term of reflex.


As verbs the difference between shake and reflex

is that shake is (ergative) to cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly while reflex is to bend, turn back or reflect.

As nouns the difference between shake and reflex

is that shake is the act of shaking something while reflex is an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.

As an adjective reflex is

bent, turned back or reflected.

shake

English

(wikipedia shake)

Verb

  • (ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
  • To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
  • * (John Bunyan) (1628-1688)
  • I could scarcely shake him out of my company.
  • To disturb emotionally; to shock.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
  • To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
  • To move from side to side.
  • *, chapter=23
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking .}}
  • To shake hands.
  • To dance.
  • To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
  • Derived terms

    * more than one can shake a stick at * shake a leg * shake and bake, shake 'n bake * shake hands * shake off * shake one's ass * shake one's head * shake on it * shake the pagoda tree * shake up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of shaking something.
  • The cat gave the mouse a shake .
  • A milkshake.
  • A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
  • Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  • (building material) A thin shingle.
  • A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
  • A fissure in rock or earth.
  • (informal) Instant, second. (Especially (in two shakes).)
  • *
  • (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
  • (Totten)
  • (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
  • A shook of staves and headings.
  • (Knight)
  • (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * in two shakes, in two shakes of a cow's tail, etc. * milk-shake * no great shakes * shakemap, shake map * shake table * shakeup, shake-up

    reflex

    English

    (wikipedia reflex)

    Noun

    (es)
  • An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=He met Luis Suarez's cross at the far post, only for Chelsea keeper Petr Cech to show brilliant reflexes to deflect his header on to the bar. Carroll turned away to lead Liverpool's insistent protests that the ball had crossed the line but referee Phil Dowd and assistant referee Andrew Garratt waved play on, with even a succession of replays proving inconclusive.}}
  • (linguistics) the descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language
  • (obsolete) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Yon gray is not the morning's eye, / 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow.
  • * Tennyson
  • On the depths of death there swims / The reflex of a human face.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bent, turned back or reflected.
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • the reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions
  • Produced automatically by a stimulus.
  • (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
  • * 1878 , James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry , MacMillan, page 10:
  • A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex .
  • * 1895 , David Eugen Smith and Wooster Woodruff Bernan, New Plane and Solid Geometry , page 7:
  • An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute''; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be ''obtuse''; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be ''reflex'' or ''convex .
  • * 1958 , Howard Fehr, “On Teaching Dihedral Angle and Steradian” in The Mathematics Teacher , v 51, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, page 275:
  • If the reflex' region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is ' reflex .
  • * 1991 , B. Falcidieno et al, “Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling” in Eurographics '91: Proceedings , North-Holland, page 145:
  • A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.
  • * 2001 , Esther M. Arkin et al, “On the Reflexivity of Point Sets”, in Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings , Springer, page 195:
  • We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex .
  • * 2004 , Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings , part 3, Springer, page 117:
  • P'' denotes a polygon and ''r the number of reflex vertices.
  • (photography) Of a camera or camera mechanism, using a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass viewfinder, allowing the photographer to see it up to the moment of exposure.
  • Synonyms

    * (of an angle) re-entrant

    Derived terms

    * reflex camera * reflex mirror * reflex viewfinder * single-lens reflex, single lens reflex, SLR * twin-lens reflex, twin lens reflex, TLR, dual-lens reflex

    Verb

    (es)
  • to bend, turn back or reflect
  • to respond to a stimulus
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