coke
UK/kəʊk//koʊk/
coke noun: solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel. Also the alternative letter-case form of Coke.
Noun (1)
coke (uncountable)
- Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
- The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
- This Messrs. Greener and Straite allege they have effected by taking a quantity of lampblack or powdered charcoal, or of powdered coke, and which has been purified, by the action of electricity from sulphur and any other mixtures, and digesting the same in diluted nitro-muriatic acid.1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102
Verb
coke (third-person singular simple present cokes, present participle coking, simple past and past participle coked)
- To produce coke from coal.
- To turn into coke.
- To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
- In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.
Noun (2)
coke (uncountable)
Noun (3) capitalized: Coke
Coke (countable and uncountable, plural Cokes)
- Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
- A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.
- The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168
- 'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'1958, Franklin Martin, “The Trouble with Mrs. Benton”, in Venus, volume 1, number 1, Garden of Eve Publications, page 16
- Any soft drink, regardless of type.
Proper noun capitalized: Coke
Coke
- A surname
Also used as
coke is also the alternative letter-case form of Coke.
coke meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
coke in Hindi
- कोक
coke in Marathi
- कोक
coke in Urdu
- کوک
coke in Bengali
- কোক, কোক করা
More languagesFewer languages
- coke in Telugu
- కోక్
- coke in Malayalam
- കോക്ക്, കൊക്ക്, കോക്
- coke in Kannada
- ಕೋಕ್, ಕೊಕ್, ಕೋಕ್ಗೆ
- coke in Punjabi
- ਕੋਕ, ਕੋਕ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- coke in Gujarati
- કોક
- coke in Odia
- କୋକ୍, କୋକ, କୋକ୍ କରିବା
- coke in Nepali
- कोक
Examples of coke in a sentence
- He's the sort of lowlife who snorts coke and refers to it as his girl.
- Don't bother talking to that guy — he's baked from all the coke he used to do.
- Don't bother talking to that guy—he's cooked from all the coke he used to do.
Synonyms of coke
- the list at soda
Forms of coke
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | coak |
| plural | cokes |
| plural | Cokes |
| alternative form | coke |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cokes |
| present participle | coking |
| past participle | coked |
| past | coked |
Origin of coke
The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).
Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.
Since 1909, by genericization from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.
Words formed from coke
Phrases with coke
Words that rhyme with coke
Questions about coke
- What does coke mean?
- Coke means solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
- What is coke in Hindi?
- Coke in Hindi is कोक. See Coke meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is coke?
- Coke can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce coke?
- Coke is pronounced /kəʊk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of coke?
- The plural of coke is cokes.
Words near coke in the dictionary
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