Poke vs Beef - What's the difference?
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To prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick.
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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)
* 1985 , Tom Weishaar, Bert Kersey, The DOStalk Scrapbook (page 44)
To put a poke on.
To thrust with the horns; to gore.
(informal, internet) To notify.
(label) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
(US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
(US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
(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)
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* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 91:
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 138:
A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.
(Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
# The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
(uncountable) Bovine animals.
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A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
a grudge (+ with )
(slang, uncountable) muscle, size, strength
(slang, uncountable) essence, content
To complain.
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To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
(slang) To fart.
(slang) To feud.
(intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire) To cry
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
Producing]] or known for raising lots of [[#Noun, beef.
Consisting]] of or containing [[#Noun, beef as an ingredient.
As verbs the difference between poke and beef
is that poke is to prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick while beef is to complain.As nouns the difference between poke and beef
is that poke is (us|slang) a lazy person; a dawdler or poke can be or poke can be (dialectal) pokeweed while beef is (uncountable) the meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.As an adjective beef is
being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.poke
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from (etyl) poken or (etyl) poken (both from (etyl) ), perhaps imitative.Verb
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- 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.
- If you try to poke a value outside this range into a byte, Basic will beep you with an ILLEGAL QUANTITY error.
- to poke an ox
Derived terms
{{der3, poke along , poke bonnet , poke box , poke fun , toepoke}}Noun
(en noun)- (Bartlett)
- 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 pocketNoun
(en noun)''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.
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…’
Remaines Concerning Brittaine'', 1629 edition, ''Proverbes , page 276:
- When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke .
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 [...].
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 …
- 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.
- 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.
Derived terms
* buy a pig in a poke * pocketEtymology 3
Either a shortening of, or from the same source as, (quod vide).Synonyms
* see the list at (pokeweed)beef
English
(wikipedia beef)Noun
- I love eating beef .
- lean finely textured beef
- boneless lean beef trimmings
- Do you want to raise beeves ?
- He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
- We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
- The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
Synonyms
* (meat of a cow)Hyponyms
* (meat of a cow) vealDerived terms
* beefcake * beef jerky * beef on weck * beefsteak * beef stew * lean finely textured beef * boneless lean beef trimmings * beefy * bully beef * corned beef * where's the beef?See also
* beefwoodVerb
(en verb)- Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.
- Ugh, who just beefed in here?
- Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.
- David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off
Derived terms
* beef up * beef outAdjective
(-)- We bought three beef calves this morning.
- beef farms
- beef country
- beef stew