Wake or The Wake may refer to:

Culture

* Wake (ceremony), a ritual which takes place during some funeral ceremonies * Wakes week, an English holiday tradition * Parish Wake, another name of the Welsh ', the fairs held on the local parish's patron saint's annual feast

Entertainment

Film, television, and audio

* ''Wake'' (2009 film), an independent film * ''Wake'' (cancelled film), a cancelled American action thriller film * "Wake" (''The Secret Circle''), a television episode * ''The Wake'' (1986 film), a Canadian drama film * ''The Wake'' (2005 film), a Greek film * ''The Wake'' (audio drama), a ''Doctor Who'' related audio drama

Literature

* ''Wake'' (McMann novel), 2008 * ''Wake'' (Sawyer novel), 2009 * ''Wake'' (comics), a French comic created by Morvan and Buchet * ''The Wake'' (novel), 2014, by Paul Kingsnorth *'' The Sandman: The Wake'', a 1995 graphic novel

Games

*'' Alan Wake'', a 2010 video game *

Crasher Wake Crasher(s) may refer to: * Gate crasher, a person who attends an invitation only event when not invited * Crasher Squirrel Crasher Squirrel is the name given to a squirrel seen in a photograph originally intended to be a self-portrait of a Minn ...

, a Gym Leader in the Pokémon video games

Music

* ''Wake'' (opera), a 2018 opera by Giorgio Battistelli * The Wake (UK band), a post-punk band *

The Wake (American band) The Wake is an American gothic rock band from Columbus, Ohio, United States. The Wake has been featured on thirty plus compilations worldwide. The band has opened for bands such as NIN, Skinny Puppy, Christian Death, Innocence Mission, Alien S ...

, a gothic rock band * ''Wake'' (Dead Can Dance album), 2003 * ''Wake'' (Floater album), 2010 * ''Wake'' (Mortal album), 1994 * ''Wake'' (Tara MacLean album), 2008 * ''Wake'' (Trio Töykeät album), 2005 * ''Wake'' (Lycia album), 1989 * ''Wake'' (For Today album), 2015 * ''The Wake'' (IQ album), 1985 * ''The Wake'' (Scott Kelly album), 2008 * ''The Wake'' (Voivod album), 2018

Places and schools

* Wake, Okayama, Japan * Wake, Virginia, U.S. * Wake County, North Carolina, U.S. * Wake Forest, North Carolina, U.S. * Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S. ** Wake Forest Demon Deacons, this school's athletic program * Wake Island, in the Pacific Ocean *

Bade Airport Bade Airport is an airport in South Papua, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatr ...

, the airport in Papua, Indonesia, assigned ICAO code WAKE

Science

WAKE (cipher) In cryptography, WAKE is a stream cipher designed by David Wheeler in 1993. WAKE stands for Word Auto Key Encryption. The cipher works in ''cipher feedback'' mode, generating keystream blocks from previous ciphertext blocks. WAKE uses an S-box ...

, a stream cipher *

Wake (physics) In fluid dynamics, a wake may either be: * the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary blunt body, caused by viscosity, which may be accompanied by flow separation and turbulence, or * the wave pattern on the water ...

, the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving solid body * Wake low, a meteorological phenomenon which can cause high winds * Wake-on-LAN, a signal that activates a device via a network connection *

Wake-on-ring {{short description, Signal that activates a device via a telephone connection Wake-on-Ring (WOR), sometimes referred to as Wake-on-Modem (WOM), is a specification that allows supported computers and devices to "wake up" or turn on from a sleeping, ...

, or Wake-on-Modem (WOM), a signal that activates a device via a telephone connection * Wake turbulence, the air turbulence that forms around and behind an aircraft *Wake, a group of vultures

Other uses

* WAKE (AM), radio station in Indiana, United States * ''Wake'' (sculpture), a 2004 weathering steel sculpture by Richard Serra * Wake (surname) * USS ''Wake'', the only U.S. ship to surrender in World War II.