Poke vs Roam - 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.
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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 wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
(intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
To or wander over.
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Poke is a related term of roam.
As verbs the difference between poke and roam
is that poke is to prod or jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick while roam is to wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.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)citation, page= , passage=Ward showed good pace to beat the advancing Reina to the ball and poke a low finish into the corner.}}
- 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)roam
English
Verb
(en verb)- Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam . Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear.
- And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam .
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}