rundle, spoke, rung
(noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder
spoke, wheel spoke, radius
(noun) support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
(verb) express in speech; âShe talks a lot of nonsenseâ; âThis depressed patient does not verbalizeâ
talk, speak
(verb) exchange thoughts; talk with; âWe often talk businessâ; âActions talk louder than wordsâ
speak, talk
(verb) use language; âthe baby talks alreadyâ; âthe prisoner wonât speakâ; âthey speak a strange dialectâ
address, speak
(verb) give a speech to; âThe chairman addressed the board of trusteesâ
speak
(verb) make a characteristic or natural sound; âThe drums spokeâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spoke (plural spokes)
A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
(nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
A rung of a ladder.
A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.
One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.
spoke (third-person singular simple present spokes, present participle spoking, simple past and past participle spoked)
(transitive) To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.
spoke
simple past tense of speak
(now, colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of speak
• kepos, pokes, posek
Source: Wiktionary
Spoke,
Definition: imp. of Speak.
Spoke, n. Etym: [OE. spoke, spake, AS, spaca; akin to D. speek, LG. speke, OHG. speihha, G. speiche. sq. root170. Cf. Spike a nail.]
1. The radius or ray of a wheel; one of the small bars which are inserted in the hub, or nave, and which serve to support the rim or felly.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
3. A rung, or round, of a ladder.
4. A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill. To put a spoke in one's wheel, to thwart or obstruct one in the execution of some design.
Spoke, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Spoking.]
Definition: To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.
Speak, v. i. [imp. Spoke (Spake ( Archaic); p. p. Spoken (Spoke, Obs. or Colloq.); p. pr. & vb. n. Speaking.] Etym: [OE. speken, AS. specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sphurj to crackle, to thunder. Cf. Spark of fire, Speech.]
1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak. Till at the last spake in this manner. Chaucer. Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. 1 Sam. iii. 9.
2. To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse. That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak. Boyle. An honest man, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. Shak. During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. Macaulay.
3. To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally. Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty. Clarendon.
4. To discourse; to make mention; to tell. Lycan speaks of a part of CĂŠsar's army that came to him from the Leman Lake. Addison.
5. To give sound; to sound. Make all our trumpets speak. Shak.
6. To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will. Thine eye begins to speak. Shak. To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of. Robynson (More's Utopia).
– To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly.
– To speak well for, to commend; to be favorable to.
– To speak with, to converse with. "Would you speak with me" Shak.
Syn.
– To say; tell; talk; converse; discourse; articulate; pronounce; utter.
Speak, v. t.
1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13.
2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
3. To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way. It is my father;s muste To speak your deeds. Shak. Speaking a still good morrow with her eyes. Tennyson. And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence. Milton. Report speaks you a bonny monk. Sir W. Scott.
4. To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin. And French she spake full fair and fetisely. Chaucer.
5. To address; to accost; to speak to. [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. Ecclus. xiii. 6. each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson. To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
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