different between poke vs ride

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)

1. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. [from later 14th c.]
2. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
3. (figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around. [from early 19th c.]

4. (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
5. (transitive) To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).

6. (transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
7. (transitive, informal, Internet) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
8. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
9. (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)

1. A prod, jab, or thrust.
2. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
3. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.

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4. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
5. (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.
6. (informal, Internet) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
7. 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)

1. (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…’

   • 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 […]

   • 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.

2. A long, wide sleeve.

   Synonym: poke sleeve

3. (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)

1. (dialectal) pokeweed

Synonyms

• see the list at pokeweed

Translations

Etymology 4

From Hawaiian poke (“slice crossways”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po?.ke?/

Noun

poke (uncountable)

1. (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

1. (slang) doorman, bouncer (at a bar or nightclub)

Declension

Etymology 2

From porno (“pornography”).

Noun

poke

1. (slang) pornography

Declension

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?poke/

Adverb

poke

1. slightly

Maori

Adjective

poke

1. grimy

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pok, poc, puke

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman poke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??k(?)/

Noun

poke (plural pokes)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. 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

English

Etymology

From Middle English riden, from Old English r?dan, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreyd?-.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

ride (third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past rode or (obsolete) rade or (obsolete) rid, past participle ridden or (now colloquial and nonstandard) rode)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c., transitive usage from 9th c.]
   • 1923, "Mrs. Rinehart", Time, 28 Apr 1923

     It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.

   • 2010, The Guardian, 6 Oct 2010

     The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.

2. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. [from 9th c., transitive usage from 19th c.]
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.

   • 1960, "Biznelcmd", Time, 20 Jun 1960

     In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.

3. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. [from 17th c.]

4. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. [from 10th c.]
   • 1717, John Dryden, Art of Love

     where ships at anchor ride.

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home […]

5. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. [from 10th c.]

6. (transitive) To traverse by riding.
   • 1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present

     Early women tobogganists rode the course in the requisite attire of their day: skirts. In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances.

7. (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
8. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

9. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. [from 13th c.]
   • 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345

     She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.

10. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). [from 19th c.]
    • 2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375

      “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.

11. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. [from 19th c.]
    • 2008, Ann Kessel, The Guardian, 27 Jul 2008

      In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.

12. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on). [from 20th c.]
    • 2006, "Grappling with deficits", The Economist, 9 Mar 2006:

      With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.

13. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). [from 20th c.]
    • 2001, Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer, 16 Sep 2001

      She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.

14. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
15. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
    • 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit

      The nobility […] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.

16. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
17. (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
    • 2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook

      The board operator normally watches the meter scale marked for modulation percentage, riding the gain to bring volume peaks into the 85% to 100% range.

    • 2017, Michael O'Connell, Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting (page 22)

      “You don't want them riding the volume knob, so that's why you learn how to do your levels properly to make the whole thing transparent for the listener. […]

18. (music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.

Synonyms

• (to have sexual intercourse): do it, get it on; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

ride (plural rides)

1. An instance of riding.

2. (informal) A vehicle.

3. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

4. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.

5. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
6. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.

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7. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
   • 2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you, in soc.culture.irish, Usenet:

     Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.

8. (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
   • 2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism (page 238)

     The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.

9. A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.

10. (informal) An act of sexual intercourse

    Synonyms: shag, fuck, cop, bang

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, dire, drie, ired

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?ð?/, [??iðð?]
• Rhymes: -i?d?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Faroese ryta, rita or Icelandic rita, from Old Norse rytr, derived from the verb rjóta (“to cry”), from the verb Proto-Germanic *reutan?.

Noun

ride c (singular definite riden, plural indefinite rider)

1. black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ríða, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, cognate with English ride, German reiten.

Verb

ride (past tense red, past participle redet, c reden, definite or plural redne)

1. to ride (to sit on the back of an animal)
2. (slang) to have intercourse with (sex position with one person sitting on top of another like on a horse)

Inflection

Derived terms

• ridetur
• ridning

French

Etymology

From rider.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?id/
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

ride f (plural rides)

1. wrinkle, line (on face etc.)
2. ripple
3. ridge

Related terms

• ridé
• rider

Verb

ride

1. first-person singular present indicative of rider
2. third-person singular present indicative of rider
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of rider
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of rider
5. second-person singular imperative of rider

Further reading

• “ride” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dire

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Verb

ride

1. third-person singular indicative present of ridere

Anagrams

• dire

Latin

Verb

r?d?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of r?de?

Middle English

Verb

ride

1. Alternative form of riden

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ri

Etymology

From Old Norse ríða

Verb

ride (imperative rid, present tense rider, passive rides, simple past red or rei, past participle ridd, present participle ridende)

1. to ride (e.g. a horse)

Derived terms

• ridedyr
• ridepisk
• ridning

References

• “ride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ride (present tense rid, past tense reid, past participle ride or ridd or ridt, present participle ridande, imperative rid)

1. Alternative form of rida

Derived terms

• ridedyr
• ridepisk

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian r?da, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reyd?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rid?/, /?ri?d?/

Verb

ride

1. (intransitive) to ride
2. (transitive, intransitive) to drive

Inflection

Further reading

• “ride (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011