transitive verb
intransitive verb
stoked, stok′ing- to stir up and feed fuel to (a fire, furnace, etc.)
- to tend (a furnace, boiler, etc.)
- to feed or eat large quantities of food; fill (up)
Origin of stoke
back-formation from stoker
noun
- The definition of a stoke is a measurement of the resistance of a liquid to flow, calculated by the viscosity of a the liquid (measured in poises), divided by the density of the liquid (expressed in grams per cubic centimeter).
An example of a stoke is a measurement of how resistant a liquid is to flow based on the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system.
- Stoke is defined as to stir up, or feed with fuel or food.
An example of stoke is to feed wood to a fire.
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stoke
a basic unit in the CGS system, equal to the viscosity of a fluid, measured in poises, divided by the density of the fluid, measured in grams per cubic centimeter (0.0001 square meter per second): abbrev. St
Origin of stoke
after Sir George Stokes (1819-1903), Irish-born physicist and mathematicianWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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stoke
verb
stoked, stok·ing, stokesverb
transitive- To stir up and feed (a fire or furnace).
- To feed fuel to and tend the fire of (a furnace).
verb
intransitive- To feed or tend a furnace or fire.
- Informal To eat steadily and in large quantities.
Origin of stoke
Back-formation from stokerTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present stokes, present participle stoking, simple past and past participle stoked)
Origin
From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust") or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust"), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stukÅnÄ… (“to be stiff, push"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teug- (“to push, beat"). Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab"), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust"). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike"), from the same Germanic source. More at stock.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present stokes, present participle stoking, simple past and past participle stoked)
Origin
From a back-formation of stoker, apparently from Dutch stoker, from Dutch stoken (“to kindle a fire, incite, instigate"), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust"), from stock (“stick, stock"), see: tandenstoker. Ultimately the same word as above.
Noun
- (physics) Common misspelling of stokes. (A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per millilitre)
Origin
Misconstruction of stokes
Proper noun
- Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England.
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Sentence Examples
- One of the men to whom Primitive Methodism owes its existence was Hugh Bourne (1772-1852), a millwright of Stoke-upon-Trent.
- Stoke is on the North Staffordshire railway, 146 m.
- He was one of the clerks at the Westminster Assembly, one of Cromwell's chaplains and a "trier," and held livings at Stoke Newington (1645) and St Paul's, Covent Garden (1656).
- The principal public buildings in the old town of Stoke are the town hall, with assembly rooms, law library and art gallery, the market hall, the Minton memorial building, containing a school of art and science; the free library and museum, and the North Staffordshire infirmary, founded in 1815 at Etruria, and removed to its present site in 1868.
- The Old North Road, entering London from the Lea valley through Hackney and Shoreditch as Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington Road and Kingsland Road, reaches the City by Bishopsgate.
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