Poke vs Ride - What's the difference?

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Poke is a related term of ride.

As verbs the difference between poke and ride

is that poke is to prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick while ride is .

As a noun poke

is (us|slang) a lazy person; a dawdler or poke can be or poke can be (dialectal) pokeweed.

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.

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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)

ride

English

Verb

(transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.

* 1597 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 1 :

Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.

* 1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :

I will take my horse early tomorrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.

* 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.

(transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.

* 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.

The cab rode him downtown.

Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.

* Dryden

Men once walked 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

(intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.

The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.

To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

(transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.

* c. 1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", Canterbury Tales :

Womman is mannes Ioye and al his blis / ffor whan I feele a nyght your softe syde / Al be it that I may nat on yow ryde / ffor þat oure perche is maad so narwe allas [...].

* 1997 , Linda Howard, Son of the Morning , p. 345:

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

(colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).

* 2002 , Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation , p. 375:

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

Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.

* 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.

To rely, depend (on).

* 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.

Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).

* 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.

(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

* Jonathan Swift

The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.

To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

* Sir Walter Scott

The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.

(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.

Derived terms

* ride bareback * ride bitch * ride herd on * ride one's luck * ride roughshod over * ride shotgun * ride tall in the saddle * ride the rails * ride the pine * ride with the punches

Noun

(en noun)

An instance of riding.

Can I have a ride on your bike?

(informal) A vehicle.

That is a nice ride you are driving.

An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

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

Can you give me a ride ?

(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.

(UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.

(Wright)

Derived terms

* bike-and-ride * free ride * go along for the ride * joy ride * Nantucket sleigh ride * ride cymbal * white-knuckle ride

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