(v. t.) To poke or stir up, as a fire; hence, to tend, as the fire of a furnace, boiler, etc.
(v. i.) To poke or stir up a fire; hence, to tend the fires of furnaces, steamers, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(2) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
(3) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(4) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(5) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
(6) Just when Everton thought they might start 2014 by keeping Liverpool out of the Champions League positions, they came close to failing the wet Wednesday at Stoke test thanks to a goal from an Anfield loanee.
(7) Thankfully both of them have now moved on – and their performances since leaving Stoke have shown it was 100% the right decision.
(8) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
(9) They have not featured in the top match all season – only Stoke can match that – but have been in the top three five times.
(10) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
(11) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(12) The system subsides "en bloc," and it is common practice to offer a modification to the Stokes equation which takes into consideration some function of the porosity of the system.
(13) The veteran almost had one with the best effort of the first half, a typical drive from the edge of the Stoke penalty area that shaved Thomas Sorensen's left-hand upright, though that possibly said more about the quality of the attacking play in the first half than the dynamism of Scholes's attempt.
(14) The binding protein has a Stokes radius of 2.49 nm when saturated with cobalamin and 2.61 nm when unsaturated.
(15) The Stokes radii measured for the PC12 and C6 activities were 41.8 and 40.0 A, respectively.
(16) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(17) Despite a dreadful end to last season, culminating in a 6-1 defeat at Stoke City, FSG are pressing ahead with transfer plans agreed with Rodgers, indicating the manager’s position is safe at the moment.
(18) Another, Mark Hughes subsequently confirmed, were Stoke.
(19) The particle exhibits a Stokes radius of 43 A, which, together with the calculated particle volume, indicates an axial ratio close to 1.
(20) The ball struck him, rather than the other way round, but the Dutch official, Bjorn Kuipers, ruled in favour of Ireland and that left Walters placing the ball on the penalty spot and looking up to see his former Stoke colleague Asmir Begovic in the goal.
Stoker
Definition:
(v. t.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.
(v. t.) A fire poker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irving decided they should all take a month’s holiday and then regroup; he suggested Stoker try Whitby on the north Yorkshire coast, where Irving had once run a circus.
(2) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
(3) At weekends throughout the school holidays the site will be bringing Bram Stoker's tale to life with a cast of actors and time-travel-themed events.
(4) That first week when he was alone in Whitby, he would go around, soaking up the ambience.” Talking to the old salts on the harbour and mooching around the churchyard up on the East Cliff, Stoker assembled a catalogue of local myths and stories that are recognisable to anyone familiar with the Dracula story.
(5) This is based on another legend Stoker would have heard about a dark hound – a story brought over by the vikings.
(6) Bram Stoker's masterpiece has become a mirror in which later generations of readers can explore any number of secret fantasies.
(7) Stoker would go to the reading room of the Royal Hotel and look out at the scene you can see now.
(8) Miller, who played incarcerated structural engineer Michael Scofield in Prison Break from 2005 to 2009, wrote the script for the film Stoker, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Park Chan-wook.
(9) Other films expected to premiere are Park Chan-wook's thriller Stoker; Lovelace – an account of the life of porn star Linda "Deep Throat" Lovelace ; and Breathe in, a new drama from Like Crazy director Drake Doremus.
(10) But the mark Stoker left on the town is as indelible as a pair of pinprick bites on a snow-white neck.
(11) ... 1892!” He goes on: “Whitby was undoubtedly instrumental to Stoker when he wrote Dracula.
(12) In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Count Dracula lives in a crumbling Transylvanian castle.
(13) Among the contemporary anxieties reflected in Stoker's tale was a fear about the future.
(14) Samples of coal ash from a stoker-fired furnace were mechanically sized into four categories.
(15) Then came the 19th century's series of gloomy fables: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , James Hogg 's Confessions of a Justified Sinner , Robert Louis Stevenson 's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray , Bram Stoker's Dracula , and the marvellous ghost stories of Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James and MR James .
(16) In fact, here’s one now ... Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whitby as Stoker saw it … the town pictured between 1890 and 1900.
(17) Kidman, responding at a special screening of her new film Stoker in London last week, said she was determined to present a carefully crafted take on Alfred Hitchcock 's best known muse.
(18) One of Stoker's many influences in setting the novel in Transylvania was local mass murderer Vlad III "the Impaler", the 15th-century Prince of Wallachia, whose family name was Dracula.
(19) Elsewhere, in the Daily Mail , Bram Stoker was rated above both Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe ( No 10 in this series ).
(20) This study was set up to investigate whether work as a stoker is associated with an increased risk of specific malignant neoplasms.