Wake

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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 gŵyl mabsant, 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, 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), 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

Science[]

• WAKE (cipher), a stream cipher
• Wake (physics), 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, 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.

See also[]

• Awaken (disambiguation)

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