Move vs Poke - What's the difference?

Move is a synonym of poke.

As verbs the difference between Move and poke

is that Move is to change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another while poke is to prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick.

As nouns the difference between Move and poke

is that Move is the act of moving; a movement while poke is (us|slang) a lazy person; a dawdler or poke can be or poke can be (dialectal) pokeweed.

Move

English

Alternative forms

* meve * (l) (obsolete) * (l)

Verb

(mov)

To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

A ship moves rapidly.

I was sitting on the sofa for a long time, I was too lazy to move .

* 1839 , Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95

Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.

To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.

to move in a matter

Come on guys, let's move : there's work to do!

(senseid)To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.

I decided to move to the country for a more peaceful life.

They moved closer to work to cut down commuting time.

(intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.

The rook moved from a8 to a6.

My opponent's counter was moving much quicker round the board than mine.

(ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir.

The waves moved the boat up and down.

The horse moves a carriage.

(chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.

She moved the queen closer to the centre of the board.

To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

This song moves me to dance.

* Knolles

Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.

* Dryden

No female arts his mind could move .

To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite, as an emotion.

That book really moved me.

* Bible, Matthew ix. 36

When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them.

To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.

I move to repeal the rule regarding obligatory school uniform.

* Shakespeare

Let me but move one question to your daughter.

* Hayward

They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects.

(obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).

(obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.

* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book VII:

"Sir," seyde Sir Boys, "ye nede nat to meve me of such maters, for well ye wote I woll do what I may to please you."

(obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.

(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

* actuate * affect * agitate * impel * incite * incline * induce * influence * instigate * offer * persuade * prompt * propose * rouse * stir * transfer * trouble

Derived terms

{{der3, move about , move along , move down , move house , move in , move into , move it , move on , move one's arse/move one's ass/move one's bum/move one's butt , move out , move over , move the deckchairs on the Titanic , move the goalposts , move the needle , move up , movable , movability , movableness , movably , movant , moveless , movelessly , movelessness , movement , movent , mover , movie , moving , movingly , movingness , remove}}

Noun

(en noun)

The act of moving; a movement.

A slight move of the tiller, and the boat will go off course.

An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

He made another move towards becoming a naturalized citizen.

A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.

She always gets spontaneous applause for that one move .

He can win a match with that one move .

The event of changing one's residence.

The move into my fiancé's house took two long days.

They were pleased about their move to the country.

A change in strategy.

I am worried about our boss's move .

It was a smart move to bring on a tall striker to play against the smaller defenders.

A transfer, a change from one employer to another.

* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:

Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland.

(board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.

The best move of the game was when he sacrificed his rook in order to gain better possession.

It's your move ! Roll the dice!

If you roll a six, you can make two moves .

Synonyms

* (act of moving) * (moving to another place) removal, relocation

Derived terms

* camera move * get a move on * make a move * on the move

References

Statistics

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poke

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from (etyl) poken or (etyl) poken (both from (etyl) ), perhaps imitative.

Verb

(pok)

To prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick.

* {{quote-news

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To poke a fire to remove ash or promote burning.

(figuratively) To rummage as in to poke about in.

(computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).

* 1984 , Franco Frey, SPECGRAFFITI'' (in ''Crash magazine, issue 6, July 1984)

The 200 UDGs may be used either by paging between 10 sets of 20 UDGs or, alternatively, by displaying 96 different characters by poking the system variable CHARS with 256 less than the starting address of your graphics.

* 1985 , Tom Weishaar, Bert Kersey, The DOStalk Scrapbook (page 44)

If you try to poke a value outside this range into a byte, Basic will beep you with an ILLEGAL QUANTITY error.

To put a poke on.

to poke an ox

To thrust with the horns; to gore.

(informal, internet) To notify.

(label) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.

Derived terms

{{der3, poke along , poke bonnet , poke box , poke fun , toepoke}}

Noun

(en noun)

(US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.

(US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.

(Bartlett)

(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.

* 1988 , "Lloyd Mangram", Forum'' (in ''Crash magazine issue 54, July 1988)

Perhaps all those super hackers who so regularly produce infinite lives etc. could produce pokes to be used by 128K users.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) poke, whence pocket

Noun

(en noun)

* c. 1386 , , The Canterbury Tales'', ''The Miller's Prologue and Tale :

Gerveys answerde, “Certes, were it gold,
Or in a poke nobles alle untold,
Thou sholdest have, as I am trewe smyth.

* c. 1599 , , 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 , , Remaines Concerning Brittaine'', 1629 edition, ''Proverbes , page 276:

When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke .

* 1627 , , 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, p. 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, p. 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.

A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.

(Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.

Derived terms

* buy a pig in a poke * pocket

Etymology 3

Either a shortening of, or from the same source as, (quod vide).

Noun

(en noun)

(dialectal) Pokeweed.

Synonyms

* see the list at (pokeweed)