Woke vs Broke - What's the difference?
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(wake)
(often followed by up ) To stop sleeping.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(often followed by up ) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
* Bible, Zech. iv. 1
(figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
* Milton
* J. R. Green
(figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
* Milton
* Keble
To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
* Bible, Eccles. xlii. 9
* Milton
* John Locke
(obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
* Dryden
* Milton
A period after a person's death before the body is buried, in some cultures accompanied by a party.
(historical, Church of England) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
* Ld. Berners
* Drayton
The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
(figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
* De Quincey
* Thackeray
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(papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
*1880 , James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper ,
*:If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.
*1914 ,
*:Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.
*2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood,
*:These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.
(break)
(archaic, or, poetic)
* 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama , season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company
# (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.
To broker; to transact business for another.
(obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
* Fanshawe
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between woke and broke
is that woke is past tense of wake while broke is simple past of break.As an adjective broke is
lacking money; bankrupt.As a noun broke is
paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.woke
English
Verb
(head)wake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) waken'', (etyl) ''wacan * Middle English wakien'', Old English ''wacianVerb
- I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
- How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.
- The angel came again and waked me.
- The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
- lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage
- Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
- Gentle airs due at their hour / To fan the earth now waked .
- Then wake , my soul, to high desires.
- The father waketh for the daughter.
- Though wisdom wake , suspicion sleeps.
- I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
- The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, / Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
Noun
(en noun)- Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.
- Singing her flatteries to my morning wake .
- The warlike wakes continued all the night, / And funeral games played at new returning light.
- The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, / Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) wacu.Noun
(en noun)- Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
- And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.
Synonyms
* death watchSee also
* arval, arvelEtymology 3
Probably (etyl), from (etyl) , Icelandic ).Noun
(en noun)- This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
- Several humbler persons formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.
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See also
* in the wake of * wakesEtymology 4
See also
* flockbroke
English
Synonyms
* boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (qualifier, UK slang') * See alsoNoun
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Verb
(head)- Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.
- He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.
Verb
(brok)- (Brome)
- We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said.
- And brokes with all that can in such a suit / Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.