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Definition: Spoke |
SpokeNoun1. Support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim. 2. One of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spoke" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Spoke \Spoke\, noun. [Old English spoke, spake, AS, sp[=a]ca; akin to Dutch speek, Low German speke, Old High German speihha, German speiche. Compare to Spikea nail.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Spoke (verb). When members of the House of Commons and other debaters call out Spoke, they mean that the person who gets up to address the assembly has spoken already, and cannot speak again except in explanation of something imperfectly understood. Spoke (noun). I have put my spoke into his wheel. I have shut him up. The allusion is to the pin or spoke used to lock wheels in machinery Don't put your spoke into my wheel. Don't interfere with my business; Let my wheel turn, and don't you put a pin in to stop it or interrupt its movement. The Dutch have "Een spaak in t'wiel stecken, " to thwart a purpose. When solid wheels were used, the driver was provided with a pin or spoke, which he thrust into one of the three holes made to receive it, to skid the cart when it went down-hill. The carts used by railway navvies, and tram-waggons used in collieries, still have a wheel "spoked" in order to skid it. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Spokes can be made of wood or metal. Some types of wheel have removable spokes which can be replaced individually if they break or bend. These include bicycle and wheelchair wheels.
(incidentally... old bent bicycle spokes are sometimes kept in toolkits; they are useful for unblocking plugs etc.)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spoke."
Synonyms: SpokeSynonyms: radius (n), rundle (n), rung (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Render difficult; Adjective: enmesh, encumber, embarrass, ravel, entangle; put a spoke in the wheel; (hinder); lead a pretty dance. |
Hindrance | Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude. |
Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora. | |
Impotence | Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear. |
Length | Line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius. |
Sharpness | Nib, tooth, tusk; spoke, cog, ratchet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Spoke |
| Specialty definitions using "spoke": AI koan, As though ♦ Bte Noire, Black Joke ♦ Galeed ♦ INSURANCE ♦ Keep your Breath to Cool your Porridge ♦ NAIL-MAKING-MACHINE TENDER ♦ Pentreath, Position, Pull Bacon, PUNCH ♦ Some AI Koans, Speaking Heads ♦ Vanoc ♦ wheel assembler, WHEEL LACER AND TRUER, wheel truer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "spoke": RADIUS ♦ Slav, Spokesman ♦ Tetractinellida. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | She spoke of my father and the fall of Gondor. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome and then, of course, you spoke. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus) But what of all those sweet words you spoke in private? (Army of Darkness; writing credit: Sam Raimi and Ivan Raimi.) Hey, you spoke, man. (Water; writing credit: Dick Clement; Ian La Frenais) Well, I have heard a few complaints over the years, but then I just killed whoever spoke up, and that was pretty much that. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | Always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand. (Ride Like the Wind; performing artist: Christopher Cross) Thunder magic spoke, (RUN THROUGH THE JUNGLE; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) The thief he kindly spoke ("All Along the Watchtower"; performing artist: Jimi Hendrix) I might, hop off the Harley, spoke mine like Bob Marley (Awnaw; performing artist: Nappy Roots) He looked to me to be the eyes of age as he spoke right out (Mr. Bojangles; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) | |
Clever | In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. (references; author: Mark Twain) I believe in the Big Bang theory. God spoke and BANG!, it was. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | When the Sphinx Spoke (1912) The Man Who Spoke to Himself (1999) | |
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 | "Rear Admiral Lewis Ashfield Kimberly U.S.N. painted these pictures of the hurricane at Samoa after his retirement while he lived at 72 Perkins St. West Newton, Massachusetts. I can recall his saying that it was the swift and tremendously strong under tow that was a great factor in keeping the U.S.S. Trenton from pounding down on the sharp reefs as each wave threw her upon them. He also spoke of the spontaneous cheer of the men on the Trenton, as the Calliope drew past and went out to sea." Comments by Miss Elsie S. Kimberly, daughter of Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, concerning the sketches of the Apia hurricane that are contained in his personal journal. Credit: NAVY. |  | The Virginian eased the pressure of his finger. A British officer stepped forward and spoke sharply in instruction. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | For a long time neither of them spoke. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Is you gwine hush when you spoke to, or is I bound to whup you befo' de school? / E. Potthast. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The people who spoke to me were earnest souls, with an idealism which seemed to lift them above party politics. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | As Coughlin spoke in Boston. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The three heroes, Earl Schenck, Earl Williams, and Dmitri Goulandris, who spoke before labor-management committee members at Hazleton, July 30th. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Nurse Anne Bernatitus spoke to anthracite miners on the crucial need for more coal production, at the anthracite rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, her hometown. The rally was one of four held in Eastern Pennsyl. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Dickens | Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. |
Homer | Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. |
Oliver Goldsmith | The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. |
Plutarch | Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less. |
Thomas B. Aldrich | Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | That all men by nature are equal, I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of equality: age or virtue may give men a just precedency: excellency of parts and merit may place others above the common level: birth may subject some, and alliance or benefits others, to pay an observance to those to whom nature, gratitude, or other respects, may have made it due: and yet all this consists with the equality, which all men are in, in respect of jurisdiction or dominion one over another; which was the equality I there spoke of, as proper to the business in hand, being that equal right, that every man hath, to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | I spoke earlier of the Temple of Peace. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Some of the objects of his curiosity spoke very amiable feelings. |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He spoke before the bell had sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy ONE. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She conquered her fears, and spoke. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He bent over and spoke in an under tone to the guide Lacoste. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard in it an echo of the infuriated cries within him. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Spoke like a tall man that respects thy reputation. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Casy spoke again, and his voice rang with pain and confusion. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I spoke in the Balnibarbian tongue, and my interpreter delivered my meaning in that of Luggnagg. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Some of my friends spoke as if I was coming to the woods on purpose to freeze myself. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Mozambique | Johnson subsequently visited Maputo in July and spoke before a large rally. (references) |
Malaysia | The Chief Minister spoke despite the ban and vowed that he would continue to speak wherever he was invited. (references) | |
Turkey | An HRA official with whom Asan spoke, Osman Baydemir, also was briefly detained and remained a codefendant on the same charge. (references) | |
Economic History | Australia | Most spoke several languages, and confederacies sometimes linked widely scattered tribal groups. (references) |
Greece | The Minoans were challenged and eventually supplanted by the Mycenaeans of the Greek mainland, who spoke a dialect of ancient Greek. (references) | |
Estonia | This "Letter of the Forty" spoke out against the use of force against protesters and the increasing threat to the Estonian language and culture. (references) | |
Human Rights | Peru | On February 28, Romero called his home and spoke to a family member. (references) |
Turkey | Minister for Human Rights Arseven attended these seminars and spoke forcefully against the country's problem of torture. (references) | |
Russia | In 2000 human rights Ombudsman Oleg Mironov estimated that 50 percent of prisoners with whom he spoke claimed to have been tortured. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | Because one of the men spoke only Kekchi, and the Public Ministry in Zacapa had no interpreter available; the judge allowed one suspect to translate for another. (references) |
Minorities | Yugoslavia | For example, Dragos Kalajic, a Serb nationalist, spoke of the "Jewish conspiracy" on one program. (references) |
Belarus | Police claimed that they looked very suspicious because they spoke the Belarusian language to each other. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | The police did not arrest anyone, and spoke with one priest. (references) |
Indonesia | The President is aware of the problem and spoke about it in her first trip to the provinces immediately after the MPR Special Session ended. (references) | |
Swaziland | The Government continued to limit freedom of speech and of the press, restraints continued on news coverage by government-owned broadcast houses, and all media practiced some self-censorship, although journalists spoke out on key issues. (references) | |
Political Rights | India | Debate continues over the Women's Reservation Bill, first introduced in Parliament in late 1998. The Government spoke of passing this legislation in the November parliamentary session; however, debate continued at year's end. (references) |
Worker Rights | Japan | In any case, few spoke Japanese well, making escape even more difficult. (references) |
Guinea | In a 1999 speech to workers at the Coyah water plant, President Conte spoke of the willingness of many unemployed workers to take the places of those who strike. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. INSURANCE AGENT: My dear sir, that is a fine house -- pray let me insure it. HOUSE OWNER: With pleasure. Please make the annual premium so low that by the time when, according to the tables of your actuary, it will probably be destroyed by fire I will have paid you considerably less than the face of the policy. INSURANCE AGENT: O dear, no -- we could not afford to do that. We must fix the premium so that you will have paid more. HOUSE OWNER: How, then, can I afford that? INSURANCE AGENT: Why, your house may burn down at any time. There was Smith's house, for example, which -- HOUSE OWNER: Spare me -- there were Brown's house, on the contrary, and Jones's house, and Robinson's house, which -- INSURANCE AGENT: Spare me! HOUSE OWNER: Let us understand each other. You want me to pay you money on the supposition that something will occur previously to the time set by yourself for its occurrence. In other words, you expect me to bet that my house will not last so long as you say that it will probably last. INSURANCE AGENT: But if your house burns without insurance it will be a total loss. HOUSE OWNER: Beg your pardon -- by your own actuary's tables I shall probably have saved, when it burns, all the premiums I would otherwise have paid to you -- amounting to more than the face of the policy they would have bought. But suppose it to burn, uninsured, before the time upon which your figures are based. If I could not afford that, how could you if it were insured? INSURANCE AGENT: O, we should make ourselves whole from our luckier ventures with other clients. Virtually, they pay your loss. HOUSE OWNER: And virtually, then, don't I help to pay their losses? Are not their houses as likely as mine to burn before they have paid you as much as you must pay them? The case stands this way: you expect to take more money from your clients than you pay to them, do you not? INSURANCE AGENT: Certainly; if we did not -- HOUSE OWNER: I would not trust you with my money. Very well then. If it is certain, with reference to the whole body of your clients, that they lose money on you it is probable, with reference to any one of them, that he will. It is these individual probabilities that make the aggregate certainty. INSURANCE AGENT: I will not deny it -- but look at the figures in this pamph -- HOUSE OWNER: Heaven forbid! INSURANCE AGENT: You spoke of saving the premiums which you would otherwise pay to me. Will you not be more likely to squander them? We offer you an incentive to thrift. HOUSE OWNER: The willingness of A to take care of B's money is not peculiar to insurance, but as a charitable institution you command esteem. Deign to accept its expression from a Deserving Object. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Angela Ricci | Well, heartbroken for the Smart family. The only one he ever really spoke of was Ed. He didn't go on about the girls. |
Bob Costas | Right. But you never put Mays or Mantle on the spoke of your bike. Bubba Morton was on the spoke of your bike. |
Dennis Miller | Moses thought he could speak to God, Mohammed thought God spoke to him, Jesus thought he was the son of God. |
Louise Ashby | I didn't drink or do anything for four years, and recently I spoke to my doctor and I said, do you think I can have the occasional glass of wine, and he said absolutely. So I have the occasional drink. |
Robert Novak | But a majority of the president's party in Congress is opposing him on this issue and the House Democratic leader spoke out against the agreement on the same day that the Federal Reserve chairman was supporting it. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Since I spoke to you last January, other events have occurred that have major consequences for world peace. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Fifty years ago, in this room and at this very desk, President Woodrow Wilson spoke words which caught the imagination of a war-weary world. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Roosevelt spoke of a day of infamy and summoned a nation to arms. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | In fact I spoke by phone with President Gorbachev just today. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Thirty-four years ago, the man whose life we celebrate today spoke to us down there, at the other end of this Mall, in words that moved the conscience of a nation. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | The last time I spoke here, I expressed the hope that life would return to normal. |
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| "Spoke" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 98.78% of the time. "Spoke" is used about 7,016 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 98.78% | 6,930 | 1,397 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.78% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 0.44% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,016 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "spoke": he spoke to professor in person ♦ hub and spoke system ♦ put a spoke in smb.'s wheel ♦ put a spoke in the wheel ♦ spoke bone ♦ spoke shave ♦ Tangent spoke ♦ To put a spoke in one's wheel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "spoke": spoke-arms, spoke-like, spoke-with. | |
Ending with "spoke": hub-and-spoke. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
spoke | 101 | motorcycle spoke wheels | 13 |
spoke rim | 83 | austin broken spoke | 12 |
broken spoke | 75 | chrome spoke wheels | 12 |
100 rim spoke | 72 | spoke wheel | 12 |
spoke wheels | 42 | hokey spoke | 12 |
broken saloon spoke | 32 | buchanan spoke | 12 |
spinning spoke | 26 | e spoke | 11 |
calculator spoke | 21 | bike spoke | 11 |
bicycle spoke | 21 | etc spoke | 10 |
100 spoke | 20 | 150 rim spoke | 10 |
motorcycle spoke | 19 | spoke shave | 10 |
calculator length spoke | 18 | model spoke | 9 |
thus spoke zarathustra | 18 | card in spoke | 8 |
100 spoke wheels | 16 | 100 spoke wheels wire | 8 |
rim spinning spoke | 15 | spoke wheels white | 8 |
spoke twisted | 14 | 3 rim spoke | 8 |
hub spoke | 14 | software spoke | 8 |
wire spoke wheels | 14 | 20 inch rim spoke | 8 |
dt spoke | 13 | sapim spoke | 8 |
car rim spoke | 13 | spoke wrench | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "spoke"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spicë (radius, shaft, splinter), këmbë shkalle (rung, stair), gishtëz (thimble, trigger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكبح العربة (lock), نطق (articulation, enunciate, enunciation, pronounce, pronouncement, say, speech, utterance, vocalization, vocalize), تكلم (bleat, mouth, say, speak, tongue), درجة في سلم (flyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стъпенка на подвижна стълба, спица (radius, rung, wheel arm), ръчка на ръба на щурвал, запирам (impound), прът за запиране на колело, пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, remora, rub, setback, stay, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse), поставям спици на. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 轮幅, 輻條 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | příèel (rail, rung), paprsek kola, min.èas od speak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rettekniv (spoke shave, spokeshave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stokschaaf (spoke shave, spokeshave), spookschaaf (spoke shave, spokeshave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پره چرخ , میله چرخ , میله دارکردن (Pale, Rod), محکم کردن (Clinch, Consolidate, Fix, Gird, Reinforce, Rivet, Stake, Tighten), اسپوک (Rung). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pyöränpuola, puola (bobbin, Poland, rung, spool), kehrävarsi (spindle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rayon, prononciation, échelon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | speiche (radius, rib, saliva). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαθμίδα κλίμακοσ, ακτίσ τροχού, ακτίνα (beam, radius, ray), αόρ. του speak (spake), αχτίνα (range). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לחשר, חשור (hub, nave), זרוע אופן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | létrafok (peg, round, rung, rung ladder, stave, step, traverse), küllõ (rung), beszélt (spoken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | raggio (beam, jet, radius, range, ray, saliva, shaft, spray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | スペックル干渉計 (cum, semen, sparing, special purpose, speckle interferometer, spell, spelling, spelunker, spencer jacket, sperm, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman, sport, sports car, sports center, sports club, sports drink, sports event, sports fair, sports programmer, sports shoes, sports test, sports trainer, sportscaster, sportsman, sportsmanship, sportswear, sportswoman, sportswriter, superiority complex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スポーク . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 스포크. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | spake, doarnane (haft, hand grip, handle of door, sheaf of papers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | okespay travão (pt.) (shoe, stopper), raio (bolt, gleam, lightning, radius, ray, thunder, thunderbolt). (various references) spiţã (line, relationship), treaptã (bench, degree, horse, level, pace, peg, rank, remove, round, rung, stage, stair, step, tread), frânã (brake, check, chock, drag, scotch). (various references) спица (knitting-needle, needle, radius, spokes), перекладина (epistyle, horizontal bar, rail, slat, spar, stave, traverse). (various references) spòc (a spoke). (various references) spica, zubac (cog, fang, jag, sprocket, tine, tooth), proš. vreme od speak. (various references) rayo de rueda, rayo (beam, blue streak, bolt, gleam, radio, radius, ray, shaft, thunderbolt, wireless), radioactivo (radioactive), radio (arm, beam, radio, radium, radius, ray, rayon, wireless), pret de speak. (various references) eker. (various references) ที่จับรอบนอกพวงมาลัยเรือ, กริยาช่อง 2 ของ speak, ซี่ล้อรถ, ขั้นบันไ". (various references) tekerlek parmaklığı, tekerleğe çomak sokmak, portatif merdiven basamağı (rung, stave), fren düzeni, at arabası tekerine dönmemesi için sokulan çomak, çubuk sokarak durdurmak. (various references) уставляти спиці, спиця (arm, needle, radius), щабель (stair-step). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | radius. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | rai. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipen kurioV o qeoV tw nwe legwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Locutus est autem Deus ad Noe dicens |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The Lord forsothe spake to Noe, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And God spake vnto Noe saynge: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And God spake unto Noah, saying, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And God spoke to Noah, saying, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And God said to Noah, |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Ug nagsulti ang Dios kang Noe nga nagaingon: |
| Chinese | 神 對 挪 亞 說 、 |
| Croatian | Tada Bog reèe Noi: |
| Danish | Da sagde Gud til Noa: |
| Dutch | Toen sprak God tot Noach, zeggende: |
| Finnish | Ja Jumala puhui Nooalle sanoen: |
| French | Alors Dieu parla Noé, en disant: |
| German | Da redete Gott mit Noah und sprach: |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lè sa a, Bondye di Noe: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu berkatalah Allah kepada Nuh, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu firman Allah kepada Nuh, kata-Nya: |
| Maori | ¶ Na ka korero te Atua ki a Noa, ka mea, |
| Norwegian | Da talte Gud til Noah og sa: |
| Portuguese | Então falou Deus a Noé, dizendo: |
| Rumanian | Atunci Dumnezeu a vorbit lui Noe, wi i -a zis: |
| Spanish | Entonces dijo Dios a Noé: |
| Swedish | Då talade Gud till Noa och sade: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spoke": spoked, spoken, spokes, spokeshave, spokeshaves, spokesman, spokesmanship, spokesmanships, spokesmen, spokespeople, spokesperson, spokespersons, spokeswoman, spokeswomen. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "spoke": bespoke, forespoke, misspoke, outspoke, respoke, unspoke. (additional references) | |
Words containing "spoke": bespoken, forespoken, misspoken, outspoken, outspokenly, outspokenness, outspokennesses, plainspoken, plainspokenness, plainspokennesses, respoken, unspoken. (additional references) | |
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"Spoke" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bpoke, iswprke, seoki, sepoku, shoke, skope, snoek, Sookey, spoak, spock, spocs, spoe, spokey, spoky, spone, spooge, spooker, spookie, spope, spose, spote, spule, stpke. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spoke" (pronounced spō"k) |
| 4 | s p ō" k | misspoke. |
| 3 | -p ō" k | poke. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pokes. | |
| Words within the letters "e-k-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: epos, keps, kops, okes, opes, peso, poke, pose, skep, soke. | |
-2 letters: kep, kop, kos, oes, oke, ope, ops, ose, pes, sop. | |
-3 letters: es, oe, op, os, pe, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-k-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: kopeks, kopjes, pekoes, pokers, pokeys, pokies, spoked, spoken, spokes. | |
+2 letters: bespoke, copecks, desktop, kopecks, koppies, mopokes, pinkoes, pockets, pokiest, porkers, porkies, presoak, respoke, spooked, unspoke. | |
+3 letters: bakeshop, bespoken, copydesk, cowpokes, desktops, koupreys, kyphoses, lockstep, misspoke, outkeeps, outspeak, outspoke, peacocks, penstock, petcocks, pockiest, pokiness, porkiest, porkpies, prebooks, precooks, presoaks, provokes, pyknoses, respoken, shoepack, slowpoke, smokepot, soaplike, spookery, spookier, sprocket, unspoken, upstroke. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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