stoke

«stoke» in Mova's school dictionary: to add fuel such as coal or wood and stir it so it burns… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (stoke, stokes, stoked, stoking); adjective (stoked — slang)

meaning for a pupil

1) To stoke a fire means to add fuel such as coal or wood and stir it so it burns more strongly. tree →

2) To stoke a feeling such as fear or anger means to make it stronger. tree →

3) (slang, stoked) If you are stoked, you are very excited and happy, especially in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons about steam trains and ships, stokers stoked the furnace with coal. In everyday life people stoke the fire or the barbecue. In news, rumours can stoke fear. Stoked is common surfer and teen slang. Stoke-on-Trent is a city in England famous for pottery.

examples

• Grandpa stoked the fire before bed. tree →
• The stoker shovelled coal to stoke the engine. tree →
• Rumours stoked fears that the school would close. tree →
• The coach's speech stoked our team spirit. tree →
• I'm so stoked about the holidays! (slang) tree →
• She was stoked to win the surfing contest. (slang) tree →
• Then he stoked the fire, blew it, and set them all round it to warm themselves. tree →

note

Regular verb: stoked, stoking. Stoked meaning excited is informal slang; do not use it in a formal essay. Do not confuse with stroke (a gentle touch or an illness) or stock.

In the corpora

• The Paralympic movement began with the 1948 Stoke Mandeville Games, and the first Paralympics were in Rome in 1960.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stoke» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.