Waking

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	But the way it's in there, waking up areas of the brain, it's a big mystery. (Phenomenon; writing credit: Gerald Di Pego) Sometimes there's a moment as you're waking and you become aware of the real world around you, but you are still dreaming. (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.) I think the hardest time is waking up in the morning those moments before I remember who I am, and think instead about who I was. (The Other Side of the Mountain; writing credit: David Seltzer; E.G. Valens) And when I was in the delivery room, waking up from the ether, I asked the nurse whether it was a boy or a girl. (The Great Gatsby; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola; F. Scott Fitzgerald) At every waking moment, alert. (Persona; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman)
Lyrics	The work devoured my waking hours but when my time (Good Company; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May) I, like noise, cuz I like waking up the house (I Don't Want Your Love; performing artist: Duran Duran) In a way I know my heart is waking up (Breathe; performing artist: Faith Hill) Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) Every waking moment, even in my dreams (I Will Love Again; performing artist: Lara Fabian)
Clever	Some people hate waking up and getting out of bed. I enjoy it. I do it three or four times a day. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Waking Up the Town (1925) The Waking (2001) Waking Up In Ireland (2001)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Waking

Domain	Title
Books	Every Waking Moment (reference) The Lucid Dreamer: A Waking Guide for the Traveler Between Worlds (reference) Waking the Moon (reference) Waking the Wild Spirit Tarot: Discover the Magic in Nature (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Waking Life (reference) Waking the Dead (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	I'm Waking Up to Us [CD-SINGLE] (reference) Waking Hour (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Image Slideshow: Waking

Photo Album: Waking

Sounds Captioned with "Waking".

Familiar Quotations: Waking

Use in Literature: Waking

Title	Author	Quote
Through the Looking-Glass	Carroll, Lewis	Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams	The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	You are beside him, sleeping and waking.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	They usually met at nightfall, their waking hour, in the waste grounds near La Salpetriere.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	They stirred, waking from sleep, troubled by the heated air.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The cotton field scurried with waking life, the quick flutter of morning birds feeding on the ground, the scamper over the clods of disturbed rabbits.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	However, upon waking I found myself much recovered.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Non-Fiction Usage: Waking

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		A few months ago I started waking up in the middle of the night sweating. (references)
		Sleeping in a cool room may keep hot flashes from waking you up during the night. (references)
		This tube stays closed during waking hours, and the person breathes and speaks normally. (references)
Business		GDP climbed by an average of 2.9 percent annually between 1993 and 1999. The competitiveness of Swedish industry has greatly improved, due to among other things the waking of the krona that occurred when the link with ECU was removed in November 1992. Capital spending has also risen rapidly. (references)
Civil Liberties	Gambia	For example, on February 28, Salieu Mbowe, a freelance journalist, reported that police officers harassed him by forcefully entering his residence at Latrikunda and waking him at 2 o'clock in the morning. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Waking

Expressions: Waking

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Waking

Modern Translations: Waking

Language		Translations for "waking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zgjim (arousal, awakening, rising, rouse, rousing, stirring up), i zgjuar (apt, artful, astir, awake, awaken, bright, cagey, cagy, clever, exalted, ingenious, intelligent, nimble, quick, quick-witted, ready-witted, reasonable, responsible, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, sleepless, smart, wakeful). (various references)

Arabic		‏صحو (awareness, shine). (various references)

Bulgarian		буден (alert, alive, awake, sleepless, unsleeping, wakeful), бодърствуващ, безсънен (sleepless, wakeful), бдителен (alert, awake, hawk-eyed, jealous, observant, open-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide awake). (various references)

Chinese		�'来 (Waked, Woke). (various references)

Danish		vågen tilstand (waking state), mareridt der fortsaetter i vaagen tilstand (oneirism, onirism, waking dream state). (various references)

Dutch		oneirisch delirium (oneirism, onirism, waking dream state). (various references)

Finnish		hereillä oleva, herätys (awakening, revival). (various references)

French		veille (radio watch, watch, watchfulness). (various references)

German		wachend (up), aufweckend (arousing). (various references)

Greek		ονειρικό παραλήρημα (oneirism, onirism, waking dream state), ονειρική ψευδαίσθηση (oneirism, onirism, waking dream state). (various references)

Hebrew		�"קצ�". (various references)

Hungarian		ébredés (arousal, awakening). (various references)

Italian		sveglia (alarm, alarm clock, alarmclock, radio watch, reveille, wake-up, waking up, watch), onirismo (oneirism, onirism, waking dream state). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		目覚め . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		めざめ. (various references)

Korean		� 깸. (various references)

Pig Latin		akingway

Portuguese		vigilante (acock, argus-eyed, awake, deputy, hawser, observant, on the alert, open-eyed, popgun, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful), sem sono (sleepless), sem dormir (sleepless), desperto (awake, wakeful), alerta (acock, adroit, agile, alarm, alert, alertness, brisk, keen, prompt, unwinking, vigilance, vigilant, wakeful, watchful), acordamento, acordado (awake, concerted, wakeful). (various references)

Russian		бодрствующий (sleepless, wakeful, wide awake), бдительный (alert, Argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, open-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, ware, watchful, wide awake, wide-awake). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji budi (rousing). (various references)

Spanish		onirismo (oneirism, onirism, waking dream state). (various references)

Swedish		vakande. (various references)

Turkish		uyumama (vigilance), uykusuzluk (insomnia, restlessness, sleeplessness), uyanık olma (being awake, vigilance), uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, enterprising, fly, guarded, heady, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), gözü açık. (various references)

Ukranian		недремний (wakeful), безсонний (sleepless, wakeful), пробудження (arousal, awakening, revival, wakening), пильнування (belay, vigil, wake). (various references)

Welsh		deffroad (awakening). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Waking

Bible Trace: Waking

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 6, Verse 48
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai eiden autouV basanizomenouV en tw elaunein hn gar o anemoV enantioV autoiV kai peri tetarthn fulakhn thV nuktoV ercetai proV autouV peripatwn epi thV qalasshV kai hqelen parelqein autouV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et videns eos laborantes in remigando erat enim ventus contrarius eis et circa quartam vigiliam noctis venit ad eos ambulans super mare et volebat praeterire eos
Old English	990	West Saxon	& he ge-seah hyo on reowette swincende.heom wæs wiðerward wind. Ændon nyht ymbe þa feorþan weccan he comto heom ofer þa sæ gangende. & wolde hyofor-bugen.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And he syy hem trauelinge in rowynge; sothli the wynd was contrarie to hem. And aboute the fourthe waking of the nyyt, he wandrynge on the see cam to hem, and wolde passe hem.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And he sawe the troubled in rowynge for the wynde was cotrary vnto them. And aboute ye fourth quartre of ye nyght he came vnto the walkinge apon the see and wolde have passed by the.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary to them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh to them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Matched Bible Translations: Waking

Language	Mark Chapter 6, Verse 48
Cebuano	Ug nakita niya sila nga nagkalisudlisud sa paggaud, kay songsongon man ang hangin. Ug sa may ikaupat nga hugna sa bantay sa kagabhion, kanila miadto siya nga naglakaw ibabaw sa tubig. Tuyo unta niya ang paglabay kanila,
Chinese	看見門 �' 、 � 風不 � � 、搖 �" �"� 苦．夜裡約有四更天、就在海面上走、往他們那裡去、意思要走過他們去．
Croatian	Vidjevši kako se muèe veslajuæi, jer im bijaše protivan vjetar, oko èetvrte noæne straže doðe k njima hodeæi po moru. I htjede ih mimoiæi.
Dutch	En Hij zag, dat zij zich zeer pijnigden, om het schip voort te krijgen; want de wind was hun tegen; en omtrent de vierde wake des nachts, kwam Hij tot hen, wandelende op de zee, en wilde hen voorbijgaan.
Finnish	Ja kun hän näki heidän soutaessaan olevan hädässä, sillä tuuli oli heille vastainen, tuli hän neljännen yövartion vaiheilla heidän luoksensa kävellen järven päällä ja aikoi kulkea heidän ohitsensa.
French	Il vit qu`ils avaient beaucoup de peine � ramer; car le vent leur était contraire. A la quatrième veille de la nuit environ, il alla vers eux, marchant sur la mer, et il voulait les dépasser.
German	Und er sah, daß sie Not litten im Rudern; denn der Wind war ihnen entgegen. Und um die vierte Wache der Nacht kam er zu ihnen und wandelte auf dem Meer;
Haitian Creole	Li wè disip yo te gen anpil traka pou yo naje zaviwon yo, paske van an te kontrè pou yo. Vè twazè nan maten, Jezi pran mache sou dlo lanmè a pou li al jwenn disip yo. Li te prèt pou depase yo.
Hungarian	És látá õket, a mint veszõdnek az evezéssel; mert a szél szembe fú vala velök; és az éj negyedik szakában hozzájuk méne a tengeren járva; és el akar vala haladni mellettük.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Ia melihat mereka bersusah payah mendayung perahu itu karena angin berlawanan arah dengan perahu. Sebab itu, kira-kira antara pukul tiga dan pukul enam pagi, Ia datang kepada mereka berjalan di atas air. Dan Ia berjalan terus seolah-olah akan melewati mereka.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka dilihat-Nya mereka itu sangat payah berdayung karena angin sakal, lalu pada waktu lepas pukul tiga malam datanglah Ia kepadanya, yaitu dengan berjalan di atas air tasik, hendak melintas mereka itu.
Maori	Na ka kite ia i a ratou e ruwha ana i te hoenga; i he hoki te hau ki a ratou: a i te wha o nga mataaratanga o te po ka haere atu ia ki a ratou, i haere maori atu i runga i te moana, me te mea hoki ka pahika ke i a ratou.
Norwegian	Og da han så at de var i nød mens de rodde - for vinden var imot - kom han til dem ved den fjerde nattevakt, vandrende på sjøen, og han vilde gå forbi dem.
Portuguese	E, vendo-os fatigados a remar, porque o vento lhes era contrário, pela quarta vigília da noite, foi ter com eles, andando sobre o mar; e queria passar-lhes adiante;
Rumanian	A vqzut pe ucenici cq se necqjesc cu vkslirea, cqci vkntul le era kmpotrivq. Wi kntr`a patra strajq din noapte, a mers la ei, umblknd pe mare, wi voia sq treacq pe lkngq ei.
Shuar	Jesusa unuiniamurisha wia-wiantainiakua ti pimpikiarmiayi, nase tukumma ásar. Nuna Jesus Wáiniak tsawartin ishichik ajasmatai Entsá Pátatek wekas niin jeariarmiayi. Tura nankaamaktiasa wea Núnisan wémiayi.
Spanish	Viendo que ellos se fatigaban remando, porque el viento les era contrario, a eso de la cuarta vigilia de la noche, él fue a ellos caminando sobre el mar, y quería pasarlos de largo.
Swahili	Basi, akawaona wanafunzi wake wakitaabika kwa kupiga makasia, maana upepo ulikuwa unawapinga. Karibu na mapambazuko, Yesu aliwaendea akitembea juu ya maji. Alitaka kuwapita.
Swedish	Och han såg dem vara hårt ansatta, där de rodde fram, ty vinden låg emot dem. Vid fjärde nattväkten kom han då till dem, gående på sjön, och skulle just gå förbi dem.
Uma	Nahilo-hawo kawuhe-ramo mowose, apa' ngolu' mewui mpotomu sakaya-ra. Parabaja-mi, momako' -imi hilou hi lolo ue mpototoaka-ra, ntani' naliu-ra.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations & Misspellings: Waking

Rhyming with "Waking"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "waking" (pronounced wā"king)
5	w ā" k i ng	quaking.
4	-ā" k i ng	aching, baking, braking, breaking, faking, flaking, forsaking, making, mistaking, raking, remaking, retaking, shaking, snaking, staking, taking.
3	-k i ng	antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, filmmaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quarterbacking, racking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remarking, restocking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Anagrams: Waking

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-k-n-w"
	-1 letter: awing, kiang, wigan.
	-2 letters: agin, akin, gain, gawk, gink, gnaw, kain, kina, king, wain, wing, wink.
	-3 letters: ain, ani, awn, gan, gin, ink, kin, nag, naw, wag, wan, wig, win.
	-4 letters: ag, ai, an, aw, in, ka, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-k-n-w"
	+1 letter: awaking, gawking, hawking, walking, warking, wauking.
	+2 letters: hawkings, rewaking, swanking, tweaking, wakening, walkings, weakling, whacking, wingback, wracking, wreaking.
	+3 letters: awakening, backswing, gawkiness, lawmaking, nighthawk, reawaking, squawking, thwacking, wakenings, weakening, weaklings, wingbacks.
	+4 letters: backswings, bulwarking, jaywalking, lawmakings, nighthawks, outwalking, rewakening, snowmaking, winemaking, workingman.
	+5 letters: backwashing, cakewalking, duckwalking, gawkinesses, gawkishness, hardworking, lawbreaking, nightwalker, pawnbroking, racewalking, reawakening, tomahawking, watchmaking, waterskiing, winemakings.
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Alternative Orthography: Waking

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 6B 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 006B 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Can it be possible that we are just waking up to the fact that we are alive?.Credit: Library of Congress.		Mary Worth. While Eve Adams pretends not to notice, Millicent Hull for days now has monopolized Duncan's every waking hour ...Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Morning; dawn; waking up; awaken; rise.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Joaquin Miller	Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.
Nathaniel Hawthorne	We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.
Novalis	We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Seneca	Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	86.62%	453	12,868
Adjective (general or positive)	10.13%	53	46,657
Noun (singular)	1.72%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	1.53%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	522	N/A

Expressions using "waking": in one's waking hours ♦ in waking hours ♦ waking dream ♦ waking dream state ♦ waking up. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "waking": waking-nightmare, waking-up time.
	Ending with "waking": half-waking.
	Containing "waking": do-dum-dum-waking-up-is-hard-to-do.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
waking life	181	abduls waking	4
abduls dream waking	71	night waking	4
waking the dead	37	problem up waking	4
waking up	34	abdul dream waking	4
waking up in reno	31	ear waking	4
waking ned devine	29	difficulty up waking	4
waking dream	28	waking ned divine	4
up waking wolf	20	off waking	4
life script waking	13	waking up in reno movie	3
life quote waking	12	life transcript waking	3
waking life movie	11	in reno soundtrack up waking	3
her infant mother waking	9	eyes waking	3
waking hours	9	bush kate waking witch	3
dream kill waking	8	dove waking	3
waking	7	infant night waking	3
baillie her infant joanna mother waking	6	in morning up waking	3
the waking theodore roethke	6	life soundtrack waking	3
trouble waking up	5	up waking wolf.com	3
night toddler waking	5	state waking	3
headache up waking	5	glory in up waking	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Period	Translations
Avestan	200-600	jakhaurvånghem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "waking": awaking, reawaking, rewaking. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Waking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: waching, wacking, wakan, wakin, wanking, warking, wasing, wazing, weaking. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Waking

Definitions: Waking

Waking

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Synonym: Waking

Crosswords: Waking

Modern Usage: Waking

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Photo Album: Waking

Sounds Captioned with "Waking".

Familiar Quotations: Waking

Joaquin Miller

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Novalis

Seneca

Use in Literature: Waking

Through the Looking-Glass

Carroll, Lewis

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Non-Fiction Usage: Waking

Usage Frequency: Waking

Expressions: Waking

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Waking

Modern Translations: Waking

Albanian

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Ukranian

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Ancestral Language Translations: Waking

Bible Trace: Waking

Matched Bible Translations: Waking

Derivations & Misspellings: Waking

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Waking"

Anagrams: Waking

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