Definition of stokes in English English dictionary
{i} family name; George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903), Irish mathematician and physicist; Carl Burton Stokes (1927-1996), United States politician who was the mayor of Cleveland (Ohio, USA) from 1967 to 1971 (first African American mayor of a major city in the USA); county in Vermont (USA)
(Geometri) Sudden collapse into unconsciousness due to a disorder of heart rhythm in which there is a slow or absent pulse resulting in syncope (fainting) with or without convulsions
(Geometri) Sudden collapse into unconsciousness due to a disorder of heart rhythm in which there is a slow or absent pulse resulting in syncope (fainting) with or without convulsions
{i} Carl Burton Stokes (1927-1996), United States politician who was the mayor of Cleveland (Ohio, USA) from 1967 to 1971, the first African American mayor of a major city in the USA
{i} Carl Stokes (1927-1996), United States politician who was the mayor of Cleveland (Ohio, USA) from 1967 to 1971, the first African American mayor of a major city in the USA
{i} Carl Burton Stokes (1927-1996), United States politician who was the mayor of Cleveland (Ohio, USA) from 1967 to 1971, the first African American mayor of a major city in the USA
born Oct. 1, 1804, Dublin, Ire. died Jan. 10, 1878, Howth, near Dublin Irish physician. He received his M.D. from the University of Edinburgh and returned to Dublin, where he encouraged students to work, under faculty supervision, in hospital wards and to acquire a general as well as a medical education. He succeeded his father as Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Dublin. His publications included A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest (1837), The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (1854), and one of the first English works on the stethoscope
If you stoke something such as a feeling, you cause it to be felt more strongly. These demands are helping to stoke fears of civil war. Stoke up means the same as stoke. He has sent his proposals in the hope of stoking up interest for the idea
If you stoke a fire, you add coal or wood to it to keep it burning. She was stoking the stove with sticks of maple. Stoke up means the same as stoke. He stoked up the fire in the hearth