Invoke vs Summon - What's the difference?
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To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
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To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
To conjure up with incantations.
To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
(computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
* C++ lets you invoke an operator function either by calling the function or by using the overloaded operator with its usual syntax. — Stephen Prata.
To call people together; to convene.
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To ask someone to come; to send for.
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(legal) To order someone to appear in court, especially by issuing a summons.
As verbs the difference between invoke and summon
is that invoke is to call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance while summon is to call people together; to convene.As a noun summon is
call, command, order.invoke
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Alternative forms
* envokeVerb
(invok)- In certain Christian circles invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.
- This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.
- Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.
- The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another draught.
- Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.
Synonyms
* invocate * (sense) call, execute, runDerived terms
* invokerExternal links
* *summon
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(wikipedia summon)Verb
(en-verb) (transitive)- Silence is primary, summoning presence to itself; so it's a connection to the realm of origin.
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- City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.