Stoke vs Evoke - What's the difference?
stoke | evoke |
To poke, pierce, thrust.
To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
To stick; to thrust; to stab.
* Chaucer
(physics) (A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per millilitre)
To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
As a proper noun stoke
is stoke-on-trent, a city in staffordshire, england.As a verb evoke is
to cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc) in someone's mind or imagination.stoke
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stoken, from (etyl) , from the same Germanic source. More at (l).Verb
(stok)Etymology 2
From a back-formation of stoker, apparently from (etyl) stoker, from (etyl) , see: tandenstoker. Ultimately the same word as above.Verb
(stok)- Nor short sword for to stoke , with point biting.
Derived terms
* stokeholeEtymology 3
(wikipedia stoke) Misconstruction of stokesNoun
(head)Anagrams
* ----evoke
English
Verb
- Being here evokes long forgotten memories.
- Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.
- The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century.
