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poke
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /p??k/
- (US) enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /po?k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
Middle English, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken (both from Proto-Germanic *puk-), which is probably imitative.
Verb
poke (third-person singular simple present pokes, present participle poking, simple past and past participle poked)
- To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. [from later 14th c.]
- To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
- (figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around. [from early 19th c.]
- (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
- (transitive) To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
- (transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
- (transitive, informal, Internet) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
- (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
Synonyms
- (rummage): fumble, glaum, root; see also Thesaurus:feel around
- (penetrate in sexual intercourse): drill, nail, pound; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
poke (plural pokes)
- A prod, jab, or thrust.
- (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
- (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
- (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
- (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
- (informal, Internet) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
- A poke bonnet.
Derived terms
- better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
Etymology 2
From Middle English poke, from Anglo-Norman poke (whence pocket), from Frankish *poka. More at pocket.
Noun
poke (plural pokes)
- (now regional) A sack or bag. [from early 13th c.]
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7:
- And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock…’
- And then he drew a dial from his poke,
- 1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276:
- When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke.
- 1627, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, 1907 edition, poem Nimphidia:
- And suddainly vntyes the Poke,
Which out of it sent such a smoke,
As ready was them all to choke,
So greeuous was the pother […]
- And suddainly vntyes the Poke,
- 1814, September 4, The Examiner, volume 13, number 349, article French Fashions, page 573:
- … and as to shape, a nightmare has as much. Under the poke and the muff-box, the face sometimes entirely disappears …
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, page 91:
- In the summertime they'd reach out and snatch your straw hat right off your head, and if you were fool enough to go after it your poke was bound to be lighter when you came out.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 138:
- She did not eat blood-oranges. Her maw gived her one in a poke and she was going to throw it in the bin, Oh it is all black.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7:
- A long, wide sleeve.
- Synonym: poke sleeve
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Either a shortening of, or from the same source as, pocan (“pokeweed”) (q.v.).
Noun
poke (uncountable)
- (dialectal) pokeweed
Synonyms
- see the list at pokeweed
Translations
Etymology 4
From Hawaiian poke (“slice crossways”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?po?.ke?/
Noun
poke (uncountable)
- (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
Usage notes
Often typeset as poké to aid pronunciation.
Anagrams
- kepo
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?poke/, [?po?ke?]
- Rhymes: -oke
- Syllabification: po?ke
Etymology 1
From portsari (“doorman”).
Noun
poke
- (slang) doorman, bouncer (at a bar or nightclub)
Declension
Etymology 2
From porno (“pornography”).
Noun
poke
- (slang) pornography
Declension
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?poke/
Adverb
poke
- slightly
Maori
Adjective
poke
- grimy
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pok, poc, puke
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman poke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??k(?)/
Noun
poke (plural pokes)
- sack, pouch, bag
Descendants
- English: poke
- Yola: poake, pooke
References
- “p?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Alternative forms
- poque, pouche, puche
Etymology
From Frankish *poka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?.k?/
Noun
poke f (oblique plural pokes, nominative singular poke, nominative plural pokes)
- sack
- E puis les poudrez bien de sel e les mettez ensemble en une poke de bon kanevaz
Derived terms
- poket
Descendants
- ? Middle English: poc, poke, pooke
- English: poke (regional)
- Scots: pok, poke, polk, poik
Tocharian A
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *pokowjä-, earlier *p?kewjä-, from pre-Tocharian *b?eh???ow-h?en- (definite), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh???ús (“arm”). Compare Tocharian B pokai.
Noun
poke
- arm
References
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) , “poko*”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, ?ISBN, page 434
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drive
English
Alternative forms
- (type of public roadway): Dr. (when part of a specific street’s name)
Etymology
From Middle English driven, from Old English dr?fan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *dr?ban, from Proto-Germanic *dr?ban? (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“support, hold”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: dr?v, IPA(key): /d?a?v/
- IPA(key): [d??? ??a?v]
- Rhymes: -a?v
Noun
drive (countable and uncountable, plural drives)
- Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- 1881, Matthew Arnold, The Incompatibles
- The Murdstonian drive in business.
- 1881, Matthew Arnold, The Incompatibles
- An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 79:
- Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 79:
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- a typical steam drive, a nuclear drive; chain drive, gear drive; all-wheel drive, front-wheel drive, left-hand drive
- 2001, Michael Hereward Westbrook, The Electric Car, IET (?ISBN), page 146:
- Heat engine-electric hybrid vehicles : The hybrid vehicle on which most development work has been done to date is the one that couples a heat engine with an electric drive system. The objective remains the same as it was in 1900:
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
- We merely waited to rouse good Mrs. Vesey from the place which she still occupied at the deserted luncheon-table, before we entered the open carriage for our promised drive.
- 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
- A driveway.
- A type of public roadway.
- (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
- (psychology) Desire or interest.
- 1995 March 2, John Carman, "Believe it, You Saw It In Sweeps", SFGate [1]
- On the latter show, former Playboy Playmate Carrie Westcott said she'd never met a man who could match her sexual drive.
- 1995 March 2, John Carman, "Believe it, You Saw It In Sweeps", SFGate [1]
- (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
- (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- a whist drive; a beetle drive
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
- (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
Usage notes
- In connection with a mass-storage device, originally the word “drive” referred solely to the reading and writing mechanism. For the storage device itself, the word “disk” was used instead. This remains a valid distinction for components such as floppy drives or CD drives, in which the drive and the disk are separate and independent items. For other devices, such as hard disks and flash drives, the reading, writing and storage components are combined into an integrated whole, and cannot be separated without destroying the device. In these cases, the words “disk” and “drive” are used interchangeably.
Synonyms
- (self-motivation): ambition, enthusiasm, get-up-and-go, motivation, self-motivation, verve
- (sustained advance in the face of the enemy): attack, push
- (mechanism used to power a vehicle): engine, mechanism, motor
- (trip made in a motor vehicle): ride, spin, trip
- (driveway): approach, driveway
- (public roadway): avenue, boulevard, road, street
- (psychology: desire, interest): desire, impetus, impulse, urge
- (computing: mass-storage device): disk drive
- (golf term):
- (baseball term): line drive
- (cricket term):
Antonyms
- (self-motivation): inertia, lack of motivation, laziness, phlegm, sloth
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
drive (third-person singular simple present drives, present participle driving, simple past drove or (archaic) drave or (dialectal) driv, past participle driven or (dialectal) druv)
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
- My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction.
- To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act IV, Scene 7,[2]
- One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
- Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act IV, Scene 7,[2]
- To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett (translator), Thucydides [History of the Peloponnesian War], Oxford: Clarendon, Volume I, Book 4, p. 247,[3]
- […] Demosthenes desired them first to put in at Pylos and not to proceed on their voyage until they had done what he wanted. They objected, but it so happened that a storm came on and drove them into Pylos.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett (translator), Thucydides [History of the Peloponnesian War], Oxford: Clarendon, Volume I, Book 4, p. 247,[3]
- (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field
- (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 6,[4]
- There is a litter ready; lay him in’t
- And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet
- Both welcome and protection.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 6,[4]
- (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
- (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- (transitive) To compel (to do something).
- (transitive) To cause to become.
- 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Maud, XXV, 1. in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 90,[5]
- And then to hear a dead man chatter
- Is enough to drive one mad.
- 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Maud, XXV, 1. in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 90,[5]
- (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Chapter 2,[6]
- […] Unequal match’d,
- Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide;
- 1697, John Dryden (translator), The Aeneid, Book I, lines 146-148, in The Works of Virgil, Volume 2, London: J. Tonson, 1709, 3rd edition, pp. 306-307,[7]
- Thus while the Pious Prince his Fate bewails,
- Fierce Boreas drove against his flying Sails.
- And rent the Sheets […]
- 1833, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters” in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 113,[8]
- Time driveth onward fast,
- And in a little while our lips are dumb.
- 1855, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., Volume I, Chapter 1, p. 7,[9]
- Charles, ill in body and mind, and glad to escape from his enemies under cover of the night and a driving tempest, was at length compelled to sign the treaty of Passau […]
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Chapter 2,[6]
- (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act III, Prologue,[10]
- […] as a duck for life that dives,
- So up and down the poor ship drives:
- 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 12,[11]
- […] the Captain […] order’d the Cable to be cut, and let the Ship drive nearer the Land, where she soon beat to pieces:
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act III, Prologue,[10]
- (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Chapter 19, p. 186,[12]
- He driuen to dismount, threatned, if I did not the like, to doo as much for my horse, as Fortune had done for his.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 4,[13]
- But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
- Environ you, till mischief and despair
- Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!
- 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Chapter 19, p. 186,[12]
- (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- 1694, Jeremy Collier, Miscellanies in Five Essays, London: Sam. Keeble & Jo. Hindmarsh, “Of General Kindness,” p. 69,[14]
- You know the Trade of Life can’t be driven without Partners; there is a reciprocal Dependance between the Greatest and the Least.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- 1694, Jeremy Collier, Miscellanies in Five Essays, London: Sam. Keeble & Jo. Hindmarsh, “Of General Kindness,” p. 69,[14]
- (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- 1697, John Dryden (translator), The Aeneid, Book I, lines 744-745, in The Works of Virgil, Volume 2, London: J. Tonson, 1709, 3rd edition, p. 328,[15]
- We come not with design of wastful Prey,
- To drive the Country, force the Swains away:
- 1697, John Dryden (translator), The Aeneid, Book I, lines 744-745, in The Works of Virgil, Volume 2, London: J. Tonson, 1709, 3rd edition, p. 328,[15]
- (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
- If the miners find no ore, they drive or cut a gallery from the pit a short distance at right angles to the direction of the lodes found
- 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
- (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
- (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
- (herd (animals) in a particular direction): herd
- (cause animals to flee out of):
- (move something by hitting it with great force): force, push
- (cause (a mechanism) to operate): move, operate
- (operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle)):
- (motivate, provide an incentive for): impel, incentivise/incentivize, motivate, push, urge
- (compel): compel, force, oblige, push, require
- (cause to become): make, send, render
- (travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle): motorvate
- (convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle): take
Hyponyms
- test-drive
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Verdi, deriv., diver, rived, vired
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse drífa, from Proto-Germanic *dr?ban?, cognate with Swedish driva, English drive, Dutch drijven, German treiben.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dri?v?/, [?d??i???], [?d??i??]
Verb
drive (past tense drev, past participle drevet, attributive common dreven, attributive definite and plural drevne)
- (transitive) to force, drive, impel (to put in motion)
- (transitive) to run (a business)
- (transitive) to engage in, carry on (an activity or an interest)
- (transitive) to power (to give power to)
- (intransitive) to drift, float (to move slowly)
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “drive,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
From Old Norse drífa f, derived form the verb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dri?v?/, [?d??i???], [?d??i??]
Noun
drive c (singular definite driven, plural indefinite driver)
- drift (a pile of snow)
Inflection
Derived terms
- snedrive
References
- “drive,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 3
From English drive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drajv/, [?d???j?]
Noun
drive c (singular definite driven, not used in plural form)
- (psychology) drive (desire or interest, self-motivation)
Inflection
Noun
drive n (singular definite drivet, plural indefinite drives)
- (golf) drive (stroke made with a driver)
Inflection
References
- “drive,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: drivent, drives
Verb
drive
- first-person singular present indicative of driver
- third-person singular present indicative of driver
- first-person singular present subjunctive of driver
- third-person singular present subjunctive of driver
- second-person singular imperative of driver
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse drífa, from Proto-Germanic *dr?ban?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”). Compare with Swedish driva, Icelandic drífa, English drive, Dutch drijven, German treiben.
Verb
drive (imperative driv, present tense driver, passive drives, simple past drev or dreiv, past participle drevet, present tense drivende)
- to move; turn
- to pursue
- to deviate
- to float; drift
- to operate; run
- to follow
- to drive, propel
Derived terms
References
- “drive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
drive (present tense driv, past tense dreiv, supine drive, past participle driven, present participle drivande, imperative driv)
- Alternative form of driva
Derived terms
- drivverdig
- fordrive
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English drive.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?d?ajv/, /?d?aj.vi/
Noun
drive m (Brazil) or f (Portugal) (plural drives)
- (computer hardware) drive (a mass-storage device)
Scots
Etymology
Derived from the verb, from Old English dr?fan.
Noun
drive (plural drives)
- a drive
- a forceful blow, a swipe
Verb
drive (third-person singular present drives, present participle drivin, past drave, past participle driven)
- to drive
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