evoke


Get Babylon's Translation Software! Free Download Now!

BabylonEnglish English dictionaryDownload this dictionary
evoke
v. wake, arouse, bring out, summon


Wikipedia English The Free EncyclopediaDownload this dictionary
Evoke
Evoke may refer to:Evoke (demo party), the second largest demoparty held annually in GermanyEvoke Records, a record labelEvoked potential, a term in neurophysiologyEvoke (graffiti art), Canadian street artist
See more at Wikipedia.org...

This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Evoke
(v. t.)
To call out; to summon forth.
  
 
(v. t.)
To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.
  

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About
WordNet 2.0 DictionaryDownload this dictionary
evoke
Verb
1. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
(synonym) arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise, provoke
(hypernym) make, create
(hyponym) strike a chord, touch a chord
(derivation) evocation, induction, elicitation
2. call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
(synonym) provoke, call forth, kick up
(hypernym) cause, do, make
(hyponym) pick
(verb-group) raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
(derivation) evocation, induction, elicitation
3. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
(synonym) educe, elicit, extract, draw out
(hypernym) interpret, construe, see
4. evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
(synonym) raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
(hypernym) make, create
(hyponym) curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
(verb-group) provoke, call forth, kick up
(derivation) evocation, summoning
5. call to mind or evoke
(synonym) suggest, paint a picture
(hypernym) express, show, evince
(hyponym) smack, reek
(derivation) evocation



Define evoke

Translate evoke




evoke in Chinese | | evoke in French | evoke in Italian | evoke in Spanish | evoke in Dutch | evoke in Portuguese | evoke in German | evoke in Russian | evoke in Japanese | evoke in Greek | evoke in Korean | evoke in Turkish | evoke in Hebrew | evoke in Arabic | evoke in Croatian | evoke in Serbian | evoke in Swedish