spoke

Meaning

Noun

1. A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
2. A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
3. A rung of a ladder.
4. A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.
5. One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.

Verb

To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

Verb

1. (form-of, past) simple past of speak
2. (archaic, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) past participle of speak

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speak

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Synonyms

radius

rung

rundle

ray

beam

wheel spoke

stave

damming

division

partitioning

rag

range

reel

rib

segmentation

spokes

spool

steel rod

trave

sectionalization

wheel arm

sectionalisation

reinforcing steel

arm

wheel rib

baluster

banisters

block

bobbin

crossbeam

crosspiece

Translations

Speiche

raggio

rayon

radio

📻

spaak

rayo

ακτίνα

raio

razzo

Radspeiche

sport

ακτίνα τροχού

gesprochen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spəʊk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: spoke

Inherited from Old English: spāca

Cognate with Scots: spaik

In summary

From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.

Sentences

It's not I the wind spoke about .

" The invaders carried the name everywhere ." The beautiful girl spoke of the invaders with pride .

He rarely spoke to me of anything that didn't directly relate to our work .