shaking

Pluralshakings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A trembling or jolting movement of something back and forth.

   The shaking from the earthquake lasted nearly a minute.

   She noticed a slight shaking in her hands before stepping on stage.

   Similartrembling, tremor, vibration, shuddering

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of shake.

   The whole house was shaking during the tremor.

   Shaking the bottle thoroughly helps the ingredients blend.

   Note

   This form does two jobs, and both keep the verb's grammar. As a participle it follows be and can go either way: intransitive in the house was shaking, transitive in he was shaking the rug. As a gerund it heads a noun phrase yet still takes an object, as in shaking the bottle helps. That object is the tell: the trembling noun takes articles and a plural, shakings, but never a direct object.

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