(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.
Pope
Definition:
(n.) Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.
(n.) The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.
(n.) A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.
(n.) A fish; the ruff.
Example Sentences:
(1) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
(2) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
(3) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(4) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
(5) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(6) He called for care for the environment to be added to the seven spiritual works of mercy outlined in the Gospel that the faithful are asked to perform throughout the pope’s year of mercy in 2016.
(7) He was protected by the pope, because his art – forgotten today – was rated at the time.
(8) William Burroughs called the film director John Waters "the pope of trash".
(9) Photograph: Vatican TV 4.21pm GMT Why does the pope choose a new name anyway?
(10) The pope, whose foray into diplomacy helped spur negotiations between the US and Cuba , is expected to address the topic in a speech before the UN in New York in September.
(11) The eye-catching deal was that punters would have their stakes returned if the winning pope was black – or something like that.
(12) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
(13) The helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies past St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
(14) The former Argentinian cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was selected in March as the first Latin pope.
(15) In any village in South Kivu, his arrival is much like the arrival of the pope – throngs of people greet him, thousands of women whose lives he has saved or healed or touched celebrate him.
(16) After that the new pope will be brought out to greet the crowd.
(17) Pope Francis was kind, genuinely caring, and very personable,” her statement continued.
(18) The pope’s support of Davis and others objecting to same-sex marriage and actively trying to keep people from marrying will result in more bigotry and discrimination against us, and is at variance with his overall message of inclusiveness.
(19) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
(20) The voice of the Pope lifting up these issues is very very important to the work that we are doing, but we have to be cautious,” he said.