Definition of 'spoke'
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spoke in British English 2
noun
2.
a radial
projection from the rim of a wheel, as in a ship's wheel
verb
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Old English spācaWord Frequency
spoke in American English 1
noun
2.
a ladder rung
verb transitiveWord forms: spoked or ˈspoking
4.
to equip with or as with spokes
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Word Frequency
spoke in American English 2
verb intransitive, verb transitive
Archaic
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
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British English: spoke
/spəʊk/ NOUN
The spokes of a wheel are the bars that join the outer ring to the centre.
- American English: spoke
- Arabic: شُعَاعُ العَجَلَة
- Brazilian Portuguese: raio de roda
- Chinese: 轮辐
- Croatian: žbica
- Czech: paprsek u kola
- Danish: ege
- Dutch: spaak
- European Spanish: radio de una rueda
- Finnish: pyörän puola
- French: rayon
- German: Speiche
- Greek: ακτίνα τροχού
- Italian: raggio
- Japanese: スポーク
- Korean: 스포크
- Norwegian: eike
- Polish: szprycha
- European Portuguese: raio
- Romanian: spiță
- Russian: спица
- Latin American Spanish: rayo de una rueda
- Swedish: eker
- Thai: ซี่ล้อรถ
- Turkish: jant teli
- Ukrainian: спиця
- Vietnamese: cái nan hoa
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