Stoke | Definition of stoke by Merriam-Webster

Full Definition of STOKE

transitive verb

1

: to poke or stir up (as a fire) : supply with fuel

2

: to feed abundantly

3

: to increase the activity, intensity, or amount of <limiting the number of cars available…will help stoke demand for the car — Keith Naughton>

intransitive verb

: to stir up or tend a fire (as in a furnace) : supply a furnace with fuel

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Origin of STOKE

Dutch stoken; akin to Middle Dutch stuken to push

First Known Use: 1683

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Synonyms: accelerate, add (to), aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build up, compound, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, hype, multiply, pump up, raise, swell, increase, supersize, up

Antonyms: abate, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, lessen, lower, minify, reduce, subtract (from)

Rhymes with STOKE

bloke, broke, choke, cloak, coke, croak, folk, hoke, joke, moke, oak, poke, Polk, roque, smoke, soak, soke, spoke, stroke, toke, toque, yogh, yoke, yolk

Medical Definition of STOKE

: the cgs unit of kinematic viscosity being that of a fluid which has a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per cubic centimeter

Biographical Note for STOKE

Stokes \ˈstōks\ , Sir George Gabriel (1819–1903), British mathematician and physicist. Stokes enjoyed a long and illustrious association with Cambridge University. He is noted for his studies of the behavior of viscous fluids and for a theorem which is fundamental to vector analysis. The stoke unit honors his name.

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