Spoked vs Scare - What's the difference?
spoked | scare |
having spokes
*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Olive M. Briggs, title=The Black Cross, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The river winds underneath it, and the great spoked wheel turns slowly, tossing the water into a cloud of yellow foam, flinging the spray afar into the dark, flowing stream, catching it again; playing with it, half sportive, half fierce, like some monster alive. }}
* 1986 , Mary Dove, The perfect age of man's life (page 84)
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=June 1, author=R.M. Johnson, title=On Exhibit: The Mountain Bike's Primitive Ancestors, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=It features equal-sized spoked hickory wheels, pneumatic tires, a chain drive, and an elliptical chain ring, something Japanese manufacturers reintroduced on bicycles in the late 1970s. }}
A minor fright.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=June 4
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=England 2 - 2 Switzerland
, work=BBC
A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
* (The Langoliers)
As an adjective spoked
is having spokes.As a noun scare is
a minor fright.As a verb scare is
to frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.spoked
English
Adjective
(-)citation
- On the north wall of the former chapel of St Anthony in Leominster Priory church in Herefordshire, a ten-spoked wheel, with ten medallions on the circumference and one central medallion, is all that can now be seen
citation
scare
English
Noun
(en noun)- Johnny had a bad scare last night.
citation, page= , passage=England were held to a draw after surviving a major scare against Switzerland as they were forced to come from two goals behind to earn a point in the Euro 2012 qualifier at Wembley.}}
- JM is a scare to the capitalists of this country.
Synonyms
* frightSee also
* scarecrowVerb
- Did it scare you when I said "Boo!"?
- The noise of thy crossbow / Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
- (Laurel Stevenson) Would you please be quiet? You're scaring the little girl.
- (Craig Toomey) Scaring the little girl?! Scaring the little girl?! Lady!
