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Definition: Stoke |
StokeVerb1. Stir up or tend; of a fire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stoke" was first used: 1683 (usage of stoker is from 1660). (references) |
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Mining | Unit of kinematic viscosity. The cgs unit of kinematic viscosity being that of a fluid that has a viscosity of 1 P (100 mPa.s) and a density of 1g/cm3 . (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Confusion can arise over the close naming of this town (one of six that form Stoke-on-Trent) to its parent city. The reasons for naming the city after Stoke, rather than one of the other consituent towns, are primarily historical and practical. Stoke was the first settlement in the region, and has been traced back to the Roman occupation. In more recent years, when the railways first came to the area the main station was built in, and named after, Stoke. Travellers to the region would therefore have Stoke as their ticketed destination, even if they were bound for another of the six towns. It therefore made sense to name the city after the oldest and most commonly used name, even though it was not the most significant from a commercial perspective.
Stoke itself, despite being the nominal central administrative town, is far outclassed by its neighbouring town, Hanley, in terms of size, population, shops and business opportunities.
Other towns in Stoke-on-Trent are Hanley, Tunstall, Burslem, Fenton and Longton. See also Stoke's Law in settling.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stoke."
Crosswords: Stoke |
| English words defined with "stoke": Grace stroke. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stoke": Stoker. (references) |
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| "Stoke" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.04% of the time. "Stoke" is used about 531 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 90.04% | 478 | 12,429 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.89% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.57% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.5% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 531 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "stoke" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stoke | Last name | 400 | 19,410 |
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Expression using "stoke": stoke up. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "stoke": Stoke-ash, Stoke-by-clare, Stoke-by-nayland, stoke-d'urbervilles, stoke-hole, Stoke-jewington, Stoke-mandeville, Stoke-newington, Stoke-on-trent, Stoke-sub-hamdon, Stoke-upon-trent. | |
Ending with "stoke": Leeds-manchester-stoke, three-stoke, two-stoke. | |
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| 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. |
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Albanian | Ushqej Zjarrin, Ushqej (cherish, feed, forage, Foster, nourish, nurse, prime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لهب النار, غذى (feed, nourish, nurse, nurture, supply, sustain, underfeed), سخن (broil, chafe, heat, heat up, hum, mull, overheat, overheating, run in, scald, stove, warm up, worm oneself), إتخم (cloy, cram, glut, gorge, overfeed, sate, satiate, saturate, stuff, surfeit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Поддържам (Favor), похапвам здраво, аботя Като Огняр. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 升火 (firing, Stokes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Topit (burn), Ládovat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vedligeholde fyret (to fire, to stoke), fyre (to fire, to stoke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verwarmen (heat), stoken (distil, heat, kindle, light). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | hejti (heat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | hita (heat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تابیدن (Glint, Glow, Radiate, Shine, Sun, Twist), سوخت ریختن در, اتش کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lämmittää (fire, heat, warm, warm up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Chauffer (stove). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | ferwaarmje (heat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schüren (fan the flames of, foment, poke, poke up, rake, rake up, stir up, to stoke), heizen (burn, give off heat, have heating on, heat, to heat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Τροφοδοτώ, 'άζω ίάρβουνα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ּספק ֳלק. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Tüzel (fire, fuel, to fire, to fire up, to stoke), Fût (heat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riscaldare (get excited, get warm, give heat, heat, heat up, heating, stir up, warm, warm up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stokal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | okestay comer s pressas, comer (capture, consume, eat, fare, itch, nosh, relish, take, to eat), carregar (bear, burden, carry, carrying, charge, convey, download, freight, heap, lade, load, shot, tamp, tote, wear), atuar como fogueiro, aquecer (bask, broil, calorify, heat, warm), alimentar uma fornalha. (various references) Mânca În Grabã, Încãrca (Lade), Alimenta (feed, fill, inflame, nourish, nurture, supply, support). (various references) Подбрасывать Топливо, Поддерживать Огонь. (various references) podstaći (abet, enforce, exhort, fire, foment, galvanize, goad, incite to, induce, instigate, pique, spark, stir, whet), ložiti (heat), žariti (calcine, stir, torrefy). (various references) calentar (animate, enliven, freshen, heat, heat up, hot up, scald, vivify, warm, warm through, warm up). (various references) Fyra På (fire away). (various references) Tıka Basa Doldurmak (choke up, clutter, clutter up, cram, encumber, glut, gorge, pack, tuck away), Ateşi Karıştırmak, Ateşe Kömür Atmak, Ateşçilik Yapmak, Atıştırmak. (various references) Підтримувати 'огонь. (various references) tanio (fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | stoken. (various references) |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | stoken. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stoke": stoked, stokehold, stokeholds, stoker, stokers, stokes, stokesia, stokesias. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "stoke": restoke. (additional references) | |
Words containing "stoke": restoked, restokes. (additional references) | |
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"Stoke" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Istok, Schmoke, Schokel, seoki, shoke, snoek, sotk, stoae, stobe, stoc, stoch, stode, stoe, stoge, stok, stoken, stokkr, stome, stooce, stooky, stpke, stuca, stuka, Sztuki, toki, tooke, Tsekov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tokes. | |
| Words within the letters "e-k-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: keto, okes, soke, toes, toke. | |
-2 letters: kos, oes, oke, ose, set, sot, toe, tsk. | |
-3 letters: es, et, oe, os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-k-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bosket, ketols, ketose, socket, stoked, stoker, stokes, stroke, tokens, tokers, trokes. | |
+2 letters: beknots, boskets, desktop, dockets, hokiest, jokiest, ketones, ketoses, ketosis, lockets, nektons, pockets, pokiest, restock, restoke, rockets, skatole, sockets, stenoky, stocked, stocker, stokers, stooked, stooker, stroked, stroker, strokes. | |
+3 letters: betokens, booklets, bookrest, boskiest, brockets, chokiest, cockiest, corkiest, crockets, desktops, diestock, dorkiest, fetlocks, forkiest, hookiest, hooklets, hotcakes, inkstone, instroke, jokester, kathodes, keitloas, keratose, keynotes, keystone, knotless, knotters, kookiest, kotowers, kurtoses, lekythos, lockstep, networks, oatcakes, outasked, outbakes, outkeeps, outskate, outsmoke, outspeak, outspoke, outtakes, overtask, penstock, petcocks, pockiest, porkiest, reitboks, restocks, restoked, restokes, rockiest, rookiest, seatwork, shakeout, skatoles, skeleton, skywrote, smokepot, smokiest, socketed, sprocket, stakeout, steenbok, steinbok, stockade, stockers, stockier, stockmen, stokesia, stookers, strokers, takeoffs, takeouts, tokenism, upstroke, wonkiest, yolkiest. | |
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