Wake or The Wake may refer to:
Culture
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Wake (ceremony)
A wake is a social gathering associated with death, held before or after a funeral. Traditionally, a wake involves family and friends keeping watch over the body of the dead person, usually in the home of the deceased. Some wakes are held at a ...
, a ritual which takes place during some funeral ceremonies
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Wakes week
The Wakes Week is a holiday period in parts of England and Scotland. Originally a religious celebration or feast, the tradition of the Wakes Week developed into a secular holiday, particularly in North West England during the Industrial Revolution ...
, an English holiday tradition
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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
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''Wake'' (2009 film), an independent film
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''Wake'' (cancelled film), a cancelled American action thriller film
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"Wake" (''The Secret Circle''), a television episode
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''The Wake'' (1986 film), a Canadian drama film
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''The Wake'' (2005 film), a Greek film
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''The Wake'' (audio drama), a ''Doctor Who'' related audio drama
Literature
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''Wake'' (McMann novel), 2008
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''Wake'' (Sawyer novel), 2009
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''Wake'' (comics), a French comic created by Morvan and Buchet
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''The Wake'' (novel), 2014, by Paul Kingsnorth
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The Sandman: The Wake'', a 1995 graphic novel
Games
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Alan Wake
''Alan Wake'' is an action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment. The story follows best-selling thriller novelist Alan Wake as he tries to uncover the mystery behind his wife's disappearance during a vacation in the small fictional ...
'', a 2010 video game
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Crasher Wake, a Gym Leader in the Pokémon video games
Music
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''Wake'' (opera), a 2018 opera by Giorgio Battistelli
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The Wake (UK band)
The Wake are a British post-punk, synth-pop and later indie pop band, formed in Glasgow in 1981 by Gerard "Caesar" McInulty (formerly of Altered Images), Steven Allen (drums) and Joe Donnelly (bass), the latter replaced by Bobby Gillespie. Stev ...
, a post-punk band
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The Wake (American band), a gothic rock band
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''Wake'' (Dead Can Dance album), 2003
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''Wake'' (Floater album), 2010
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''Wake'' (Mortal album), 1994
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''Wake'' (Tara MacLean album), 2008
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''Wake'' (Trio Töykeät album), 2005
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''Wake'' (Lycia album), 1989
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''Wake'' (For Today album), 2015
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''The Wake'' (IQ album), 1985
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''The Wake'' (Scott Kelly album), 2008
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''The Wake'' (Voivod album), 2018
Places and schools
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Wake, Okayama
is a town located in Wake District, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
As of October 2016, the town has an estimated population of 14,191. The total area is 144.21 km².
The town is famous in the region for the 'Wamojiyaki' festival that takes pl ...
, Japan
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Wake, Virginia
Wake is an unincorporated community in Middlesex County, Virginia, United States. Wake is east-southeast of Saluda. Wake has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting ...
, U.S.
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Wake County, North Carolina
Wake County is located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In the 2020 census, its population was 1,129,410, making it North Carolina's most-populous county. From July 2005 to July 2006, Wake County was the 9th-fastest growing county in the U ...
, U.S.
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Wake Forest, North Carolina
Wake Forest is a town in Franklin, Granville and Wake counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina; located almost entirely in Wake County, it lies just north of the state capital, Raleigh. At the 2020 census, the population was 47,601. That i ...
, U.S.
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Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...
, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
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Wake Forest Demon Deacons
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Wake Forest University, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level as a mem ...
, this school's athletic program
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Wake Island
Wake Island ( mh, Ānen Kio, translation=island of the kio flower; also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, east of Guam, west of Honolulu, southeast of ...
, in the Pacific Ocean
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Bade Airport, the airport in
Papua, Indonesia
Papua is a province of Indonesia, comprising the northern coast of Western New Guinea together with island groups in Cenderawasih Bay to the west. It roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Tabi Saireri. It is bordered by the ...
, assigned ICAO code WAKE
Science
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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-b ...
, a stream cipher
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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
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, the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving solid body
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Wake low
A wake low, or wake depression, is a mesoscale low-pressure area which trails the mesoscale high following a squall line. Due to the subsiding warm air associated with the system's formation, clearing skies are associated with the wake low. Onc ...
, a meteorological phenomenon which can cause high winds
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Wake-on-LAN, a signal that activates a device via a network connection
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Wake-on-ring, or Wake-on-Modem (WOM), a signal that activates a device via a telephone connection
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Wake turbulence
Wake turbulence is a disturbance in the atmosphere that forms behind an aircraft as it passes through the air. It includes variety of elements, the most significant of which are wingtip vortices and jetwash. Jetwash refers to the rapidly moving g ...
, the air turbulence that forms around and behind an aircraft
*Wake, a group of
vulture
A vulture is a bird of prey that scavenges on carrion. There are 23 extant species of vulture (including Condors). Old World vultures include 16 living species native to Europe, Africa, and Asia; New World vultures are restricted to North and ...
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Other uses
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WAKE (AM)
WAKE (1500 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format.
WAKE had an adult standards format until 2009, when it briefly switched to CNN Headline News, before adopting a classic country format in 2010. In November 2011, the station swit ...
, radio station in Indiana, United States
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''Wake'' (sculpture), a 2004 weathering steel sculpture by Richard Serra
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Wake (surname)
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USS ''Wake'', the only U.S. ship to surrender in World War II.
See also
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Awaken (disambiguation)
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