different between speaks vs spoke

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?spi?ks/

Verb

speaks

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of speak

Noun

speaks

1. plural of speak

Anagrams

• Paseks, Spakes

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?k, IPA^(key): /sp??k/
• Rhymes: -??k
• Hyphenation: spoke

Etymology 1

From Middle English spoke, spok, spook, from Old English sp?ca, from Proto-Germanic *spaik?.

Noun

spoke (plural spokes)

1. A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
2. (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
3. A rung of a ladder.
4. A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.
5. One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.

Derived terms

• hub-and-spoke

Translations

Verb

spoke (third-person singular simple present spokes, present participle spoking, simple past and past participle spoked)

1. (transitive) To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

Further reading

• spoke on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Verb

spoke

1. simple past tense of speak
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of speak

Anagrams

• kepos, pokes, posek

Afrikaans

Noun

spoke

1. plural of spook

Dutch

Verb

spoke

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of spoken

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spook, spok, spak, spake

Etymology

From Old English sp?ca, from Proto-Germanic *spaik?.

Pronunciation

• (Northern ME, Early ME) IPA^(key): /?sp??k(?)/
• IPA^(key): /?sp??k(?)/

Noun

spoke (plural spokes or spoken)

1. A spoke (support radiating from the middle of a wheel)
2. A sharp spike or projection on the edge of a wheel.

Descendants

• English: spoke
• Scots: spaik

References

• “sp?k(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.