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stokes

stokes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stoke.

Meaning of stoke

Verb (1)

stoke (third-person singular simple present stokes, present participle stoking, simple past and past participle stoked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To poke, pierce, thrust.
    • Ne short swerd for to stoke with point bityng / No man ne drawe ne bere it by his syde / Ne no man shal un to his felawe ryde / But o cours with a sharp ygrounde spere1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Knẏghtes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c....

Verb (2)

stoke (third-person singular simple present stokes, present participle stoking, simple past and past participle stoked)

  1. (transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
  2. (broadly, transitive) To encourage a behavior or emotion.
    • Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song1974, Joni Mitchell, Free Man in Paris
  3. (intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.

See all 11 meanings of stoke

Noun

stokes (plural stokes)

  1. A unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm²/s.

Proper noun capitalized: Stokes

Stokes

  1. A surname.
    • “In our view, on the basis of the public record, former President Donald J. Trump is constitutionally disqualified from again being President (or holding any other covered office) because of his role in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election and the events leading to the January 6 attack,”...2023 August 19, Katelyn Polantz, “Legal scholars increasingly raise constitutional argument that Trump should be barred from presidency”, in CNN
  2. A locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, north Queensland, Australia.
  3. A census-designated place in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.
  4. Four townships in the United States, two each in Minnesota and Ohio.

Forms of stokes

pluralstokes

Origin of stokes

See stoke (verb)

After George Gabriel Stokes

Words formed from stokes

Phrases with stokes

Words that rhyme with stokes

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Questions about stokes

What does stokes mean?
Stokes means a unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm²/s.
What is stokes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stokes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stoke.
What part of speech is stokes?
Stokes can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of stokes?
The plural of stokes is stokes.

Words near stokes in the dictionary

  1. stoker-fired
  2. Stokerian
  3. stokerless
  4. stokers
  5. Stokers Siding
  6. stokes
  7. Stokes Bay
  8. Stokes County
  9. stokes up
  10. Stokes' theorem
  11. Stokes-Adams attack

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