Wake (disambiguation)
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Wake is the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving solid body.
Wake may also refer to:
Culture
- Wakes week, an English holiday tradition
- Parish Wake, another name of the Welsh gŵyl mabsant, the fairs held on the local parish's patron saint's annual feast
- Wake (ceremony), a ritual which takes place during some funeral ceremonies
Entertainment
Film and television
- The Wake (film), a 2005 Greek film
- Wake (film), a 2009 independent film
- "Wake" (The Secret Circle), an episode of the television series The Secret Circle
Literature
- The Wake (novel), a 2014 novel by Paul Kingsnorth
- Wake (McMann novel), a novel by Lisa McMann
- Wake (Sawyer novel), a 2009 novel by Robert J. Sawyer
- Wake (comics), a French comic in book collection format created by Morvan and Buchet
- The Sandman: The Wake, a graphic novel in the Sandman series
- Finnegans Wake, a 1939 novel by James Joyce
- The Wake, a 10-issue comic book series by Scott Snyder
Games
- Alan Wake, a 2010 video game
- Crasher Wake, a Gym Leader in the Pokémon video games
Music
- The Wake (UK band), a British post-punk band
- The Wake (US band), an American goth rock band from Columbus, Ohio
- 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
- The Wake (IQ album), 1985
- The Wake (Scott Kelly album), 2008
- The Wake (Bernice Summerfield), a Big Finish Productions audio drama
- "The Wake", a song from August Burns Red 2015 album Found in Far Away Places
- "Wake", a song from The Antlers' 2009 album Hospice
- "Wake", a song from Linkin Park's from Minutes to Midnight
- "Wake", the video release of one of The Sisters of Mercy's 1985 concerts at The Royal Albert Hall
- "The Wake", a song by Abney Park
Places and schools
- Wake, Okayama, Japan
- Wake, Virginia
- Wake County, North Carolina, county in North Carolina, in which the state capital of Raleigh is located
- Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
- Wake Forest University
- Wake Forest Demon Deacons, this school's athletic program
- Wake Island, a U.S. possession in the Pacific Ocean
Science and nature
Technology and engineering
- WAKE (cipher), a stream cipher designed by David Wheeler in 1993
- Wake, to awaken computer and electronic devices, is to return from sleep mode
- Wake turbulence, the air turbulence that forms around and behind an aircraft
Other uses
- Wake (surname)
- WAKE (AM), radio station in Indiana, United States
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