invoke

Significat (Anglès)

  1. (transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
  2. (transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
  3. (transitive) To call another ship.
  4. (transitive) To call to mind (something) for some purpose.
  5. (transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
  6. (transitive) To conjure up with incantations.
  7. (transitive) To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
  8. (transitive) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

Freqüència

C2
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ɪnˈvoʊk/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

From Middle English *invoken, envoken, borrowed from Old French envoquer, from Latin invocāre (“to call upon”), itself from in- + vocare (“to call”). Doublet of invocate.

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