Poke vs Drag - 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.
To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
To move slowly.
To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
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* Byron
* Gay
To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
* Dryden
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
* Russell
(computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
(soccer) To hit or kick off target.
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To fish with a dragnet.
To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
(figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
* Tennyson
(uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
(countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
(countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
(countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
(countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
* J. D. Forbes
(countable, slang) Someone or something that is disappointing.
(countable, slang) Horse-drawn wagon or buggy.
(countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
(countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
(countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
(metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
(masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
(nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
* Hazlitt
(uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
(uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
Poke is a related term of drag.
In computing|lang=en terms the difference between poke and drag
is that poke is (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 while drag is (computing) to move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.As verbs the difference between poke and drag
is that poke is to prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick while drag is to pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.As nouns the difference between poke and drag
is that poke is (us|slang) a lazy person; a dawdler or poke can be or poke can be (dialectal) pokeweed while drag is (uncountable) resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it or drag can be (uncountable|slang) women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.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)drag
English
(wikipedia drag)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
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- The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.
- Long, open panegyric drags at best.
- have dragged a lingering life
- A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.
- Arsenal were struggling for any sort of rhythm and Aaron Lennon dragged an effort inches wide as Tottenham pressed for a second.
- while I dragged my brains for such a song
Derived terms
* drag one's feet * dragline * what the cat dragged inNoun
- When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.
- Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag .
- My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag .
- (Thackeray)
- to run a drag
- a stone drag
- Had a drag in his walk.
Derived terms
* drag race * main dragEtymology 2
Possibly from (etyl) Douglas Harper,"camp (n.)"in Online Etymology Dictionary , 2001ff
Noun
(-)- He performed in drag .
- corporate drag
Derived terms
* drag king * drag queen * drag showReferences
*Flight, 1913, p. 126] attributing to [[w:Archibald Low, Archibald Low]*