What's the difference between nose and poke?

Nose


Definition:

  • (n.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory.
  • (n.) The power of smelling; hence, scent.
  • (n.) A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle.
  • (v. t.) To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.
  • (v. t.) To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against; hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.
  • (v. t.) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang; as, to nose a prayer.
  • (v. i.) To smell; to sniff; to scent.
  • (v. i.) To pry officiously into what does not concern one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
  • (2) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
  • (3) These data suggest that basophilic cell function in the superficial mucous layer in the nose is of greater significance in the development of nasal symptoms in response to nasal allergy than either mucociliary activity or nasal mucosal hypersensitivity to histamine.
  • (4) Body weight (BW) and nose-tail length were less in the hypoxic exposed (H) rats than in control (C) animals growing in air.
  • (5) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (6) Segmental function was diminished an average of 67.8% in "noses" and 46.6% in "bridges".
  • (7) Most symptoms come from the ciliated airways (nose, paranasal sinuses, and bronchs) and from the middle ear.
  • (8) Although they were born at different periods of the year, the calves in all three groups had similar bacterial loads in their noses and tracheas when they were 1 day old (P greater than 0.05).
  • (9) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
  • (10) A review of the literature reveals that the numerous procedures now available to repair the nose had already been devised by the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany and France as well as in England.
  • (11) An initial nasal allergen challenge was followed by a rechallenge of the nose with allergen 24 h later using a lavage technique.
  • (12) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
  • (13) Transposition of prolabium not required in the definitive lip repair into the floor of the nose permits subsequent columellar construction.
  • (14) The symptoms might be due to increased parasympathetic activity to the nose with the release of vaso-secretory active substances.
  • (15) Most infections have flu-like symptoms including fever, coughing, sore throat, runny nose, and aches and pains.
  • (16) The observation of high levels of xenobiotic metabolizing enzyme activity in the olfactory mucosa has produced speculation on the functional significance of these enzymes in the nose.
  • (17) The results of numerous microbiological investigations of sputa, nose and throat swabs before and during the long-term study are interpreted under certain aspects and questioning.
  • (18) But a eurosnob is generally someone who only watches European soccer and looks down his or her nose at MLS.
  • (19) Pretreatment of the lower airways with inhaled atropine did not affect the magnitude of the changes in Ru after inhalation of OA through the nose but significantly attenuated the response of the lower airways.
  • (20) A significant decrease was shown for the difference in upper and lower lip pressures between nose breathing and mouth breathing, whereas there was a significant increase in pressure when the subject extended the head 5 degrees during mouth breathing.

Poke


Definition:

  • (n.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.
  • (n.) A bag; a sack; a pocket.
  • (n.) A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.
  • (v. t.) To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.
  • (v. t.) To thrust with the horns; to gore.
  • (v. t.) To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.
  • (v. i.) To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about.
  • (n.) The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.
  • (n.) A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person.
  • (n.) A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experts on the red web share their views Read more Earlier this year student Ruslan Starostin posted an image poking fun at Putin on VKontakte.
  • (2) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
  • (3) Agüero’s run was as strong as it was skilful, beating four attempted tacklers in a drive into the penalty area that ended with him poking the ball past Ruddy as the goalkeeper came out to narrow the angle.
  • (4) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
  • (5) A Cairo heart surgeon inspired by the US news programme The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has captivated Egyptian viewers with a new style of satirical TV show poking fun at politicians on air for the first time.
  • (6) Two measures of exploration (rearing, nose poking) were recorded during a single brief exposure.
  • (7) Previously a cover-up and reworking of a tattoo beneath, when she was performing across the UK with Girls Aloud in February , you could see the bold work in progress poking above her backless stage costumes.
  • (8) Nose-poke responses with stimulation of the non-lesioned MPC were just about normal.
  • (9) ForzaVista is back, but it's been hugely expanded allowing players to poke around every nook and cranny of every car in the game.
  • (10) Juan nearly pokes a backpass past an advancing Julio Cesar; the keeper does well to hack clear.
  • (11) Silva c Prior b Anderson 13 (Sri Lanka 37-1) Anderson continues for the eighth and presumably final over of his opening spell and again he beats the bat with successive deliveries, drawing a checked drive outside off then a cautious poke.
  • (12) Even if that means poking the front half of the pantomime horse where it hurts.
  • (13) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
  • (14) Within a few minutes, I had them picking up crabs and poking anenomes.
  • (15) Only they who love without desire shall have power granted them in their darkest hour!” As I have confessed before, in 1992 I was a gag writer on a doomed Channel 4 show, A Pig in a Poke .
  • (16) Lochhead nips in to poke the pass out of the striker's reach.
  • (17) Suárez conjured space on the left of the box and his cross-shot bounced off the post and out to Downing, who sidestepped two defenders before firing a shot that Kenny beat into the path of Kuyt, who poked the ball in from five yards.
  • (18) And when the US president pokes his finger in this one, it is a hornets nest.” Shen Dingli, a prominent Chinese foreign policy expert from Shanghai’s Fudan University, told the New York Times such behaviour from Trump could not be tolerated once he reached the White House.
  • (19) "We will share a monarch, we will share a currency and, under our proposals, we will share a social union, but we won't have diktats from Westminster for Scotland and we won't have Scottish MPs poking their nose into English business in the House of Commons," said Salmond.
  • (20) Poke about at the right ancient monuments and you will find reference to dates that go back billions and billions of years.