What's the difference between bespoke and spoke?

Bespoke


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Bespeak
  • (p. p.) of Bespeak
  • () imp. & p. p. of Bespeak.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
  • (2) Undoubtedly chosen to represent British fashion while honouring Canada’s national colours, it was a bespoke version of a dress from McQueen’s resort collection.
  • (3) Bringing together specialisms including creative, design, media planning and buying, content, social, PR, influencer marketing, experiential, data analytics and CRM, The&Partnership also leads bespoke new-model agency offerings for clients including News UK, The Wall Street Journal, TalkTalk, TELUS and Toyota.
  • (4) Side-entrance shame The brochure for the upmarket apartments of One Commercial Street, on the edge of the City, boasts of a "bespoke entrance lobby ... With the ambience of a stylish hotel reception area, it creates a stylish yet secure transition space between your home and the City streets".
  • (5) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
  • (6) Going under the name Michael Green and casting himself as an internet marketing guru, Shapps in 2007 claimed audiences could "make $20,000 in 20 days guaranteed or your money back" – if they spent $200 buying his bespoke software.
  • (7) A briefing stressed that curbing migration is a red line, and that Britain is not interested in an off-the-shelf deal with Europe but a bespoke one.
  • (8) Referee Mark Clattenberg leads them out on to the Villa Park sward, where the match-ball is waiting on a bespoke Premier League plinth.
  • (9) In Whitehall jargon, the deals are “bespoke” – in short, varying in significant details – with Greater Manchester getting responsibility for a £6bn budget to integrate health and social care .
  • (10) Since then the company has moved to Woodland Hills, and into a cavernous bespoke building, designed to accommodate the huge development teams that a game of this size requires.
  • (11) The witching-hour timing bespoke both political calculation and personal angst.
  • (12) Founded in the 1990s by Jimmy Choo, a Malaysian bespoke shoemaker, and the British designer Tamara Mellon, the firm went through the hands of several private equity firms before JAB bought the brand for more than £500m in 2011.
  • (13) The Who's pioneering instrument-smasher could find he's met his match with one of the bespoke nylon-bodied guitars made by Olaf Diegel, professor of mechatronics at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand.
  • (14) For Simon and his family it has been a happy ending; he is living close to home with a bespoke service, matched to his needs, within a house well connected to local facilities and neighbours.
  • (15) A great example of this is the Hearing Dogs for Deaf People campaign that offered a variety of rewards , such as a company away day at their beautiful HQ in Buckinghamshire, a bespoke pub quiz and personalised thank-you cards to raise funds to buy a new PupMobile for their charity.
  • (16) They flew in on a private Boeing 777 airliner complete with customised "Panda Express" livery; a bespoke cuisine of bamboo, apples, carrots and specially prepared "panda cake"; and private suites of Perspex and steel.
  • (17) An impenetrable wall of bespoke tailoring standing between him and power.
  • (18) Now we do bespoke designs for people, like a red devil fighting with the moon."
  • (19) Moyes has installed a bespoke facility that houses whiteboards, computers, high-definition screens, iPads and other state-of-the-art digital technology at United's training ground.
  • (20) Warp Records would be home to a new, bespoke, Meccano-like strain of home-built techno.

Spoke


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Speak
  • () of Speak
  • () imp. of Speak.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
  • (n.) A rung, or round, of a ladder.
  • (n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with spokes, as a wheel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (2) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (3) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
  • (4) It represents a rapid deterioration in relations since Monday when, previewing the Rotherham game, Karanka spoke of his “amazing” relationship with Steve Gibson, Boro’s owner, and everyone at the club.
  • (5) It was listening to the then state legislator Obama at the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston when he spoke about America not being red or blue but a place where "you don't have to be rich in order to fulfil your potential".
  • (6) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
  • (7) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
  • (8) A young literature student accused him of manipulating the language, and then – at the end – another woman noted that he spoke very nicely before declaring him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
  • (9) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
  • (10) Read more Clinton spoke before more than a thousand supporters on Saturday at a launch event for “Women for Hillary” in New Hampshire, touching upon many of the familiar themes of her presidential campaign – equal pay for women, paid family leave, raising the minimum wage.
  • (11) I spoke with him, and he is glad to be back in the US.
  • (12) In an extensive interview with Guardian Australia, Coleman spoke out for the first time about the state of Australia’s asylum-seeker policies.
  • (13) Cameron spoke out after the Daily Mail published claims that the union had a "leverage" unit as part of its campaign to negotiate better pay and conditions for staff at Grangemouth.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
  • (15) Kelly reportedly spoke with lawyers investigating claims of sexual harassment by former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who left the network following allegations by several women of years of abuse.
  • (16) "We spoke for hours on the phone, before we'd even met," says Patel.
  • (17) One recent report spoke of the creation of a series of “city states” across much of the country .
  • (18) Admirably, Clinton kept her cool throughout, particularly Trump when spoke over her to call her “such a nasty woman”.
  • (19) The chancellor, who briefed the UK cabinet this week on plans for a Scottish referendum, spoke out as Alex Salmond , the Scottish first minister, indicated that he would adopt a conciliatory approach in the negotiations on the proposed referendum.
  • (20) Obama spoke on the phone with Merkel, the British prime minister, David Cameron , and the Polish president, Bronisław Komorowski.

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