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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
evoke
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ While the above are possibly reinforcing features, school curricula, may also evoke tensions in gender identities.
still
▪ The face, although sad, still evoked a feeling of serenity.
▪ Motherhood is still evoked as a religious calling, a state of being that elevates women above the human condition.
▪ This image is almost entirely man-made, save perhaps for the palm-tree, yet it still evokes a sense of paradise.
▪ Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.
▪ It was absurd to imagine that a modern city could still evoke that kind of magic!
▪ This small, inland town still evokes a timeless quality and a feeling of quiet seclusion.
■ NOUN
atmosphere
▪ He evokes its atmosphere with uncanny skill.
event
▪ Here also the infinitive evokes an event which actually occurred but which very well might not have.
▪ Endo-wed with a prodigious memory, he remembered the names of old comrades, or evoked events dating back decades.
▪ In some of its uses, the to infinitive evokes an event as non-realized or yet to be realized.
▪ Get evokes the infinitive's event as a result which has been achieved or obtained but does not specify by what means.
image
▪ They evoke romantic images of humming orchard hives and summer sweetness, presided over by veiled eccentrics steeped in arcane lore.
▪ Linked often enough, their various connections evoked images in the media of a conspiracy involving cash-and-carry favors.
▪ Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.
▪ The image of the governor sending soldiers to block a courthouse door, they say, evokes images of segregationist Gov.
▪ Some have made pilgrimages to re-enact ancient rituals in caves, others have dressed in costumes and objects evoking traditional Goddess images.
memory
▪ In these, however, no special attempt was made by the interviewers to evoke memories of grandparents or other old people.
▪ Wild rice, perhaps because it is so much rarer and costlier than corn, evokes different kinds of memories and feelings.
▪ Sanchez's touchline histrionics evoked memories of some of Martin O'Neill's maddest moments on the same turf.
▪ The recollection of the summer evening sunlight coming through the large window behind the preacher's head evokes many nostalgic memories.
▪ Aroma, like music, can often evoke memories.
▪ Now the smell has become rosy, it evokes strings of memory that weave into something new.
▪ It may even evoke a memory of a place.
name
▪ Some one suggested the Mayor of St Louis, Missouri, thinking that the consonance of names might perhaps evoke sympathy.
▪ Hence 60 years on the name Dunkirk still evokes images of triumph in the face of great odds.
reaction
▪ The suddenness of the pits crisis evoked a popular reaction, and the miners' voice is being heard.
▪ Let us look first at the question why Kant evoked such different reactions.
▪ I was hooked, I knew my singing wasn't good enough to evoke that kind of reaction from an audience.
▪ Mesmeric and hypnotic, his prodigious output evokes strong reactions.
▪ At first this procedure evoked a strong reaction from faculty heads who perceived the dangers of over-personalised accounts.
response
▪ Gentle pressure over the hindquarters as shown may first be necessary to evoke the required response.
▪ The current awareness that the modern nation-state has become severely strained, or even ineffectual, has evoked a range of responses.
▪ The couple launched an appeal which evoked a generous response from organisations, companies and individuals.
▪ That is, a single schema had been used to evoke a behavioral response.
▪ Or they may fail to evoke a response at all.
▪ Virtually anything waved around in the receptive fields of these cells will evoke a response under the right conditions.
sense
▪ This image is almost entirely man-made, save perhaps for the palm-tree, yet it still evokes a sense of paradise.
▪ Its archetypal shape and colour have universal appeal, evoking a sense of fun and childhood.
state
▪ Cellular phones, too, often evoke a confused state of dread.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ David hardly needed any encouragement to visit the sea, since it still evoked for him the happiest memories.
▪ Her speech today evoked surprise and outrage from many French officials.
▪ Jackson's speech evoked strong responses from the audience.
▪ She tried everything in an attempt to evoke sympathy and pity from her parents.
▪ The movie evokes a simpler time when life was less complicated.
▪ The names Witches Well, Candlemaker Row and Grassmarket Square evoke visions of another era.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bee swarms, on the other hand, evoke another sort of awe.
▪ For instance, the poetry of Blaise Cendrars evoked the motion of the Trans-Siberian Express.
▪ It evokes a fact, i.e. an object of conception, rather than an object of perception.
▪ It is one of the ways in which the Spirit evokes prayer in the people of the Messiah.
▪ Since joining the business world I have seen similar techniques evoke similarly successful results.
▪ The above are the main questions evoked during the interviews.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evoke

Evoke \E*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Evoking.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F ['e]voquer. See Voice, and cf. Evocate.]

  1. To call out; to summon forth.

    To evoke the queen of the fairies.
    --T. Warton.

    A regulating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
    --De Quincey.

  2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] ``The cause was evoked to Rome.''
    --Hume.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
evoke

1620s, from French évoquer or directly from Latin evocare "call out, rouse, summon" (see evocation). Often more or less with a sense of "calling spirits," or being called by them. Of feelings, memories, etc., by 1856. Related: Evoked; evokes; evoking.

Wiktionary
evoke

vb. To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.

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WordNet
evoke

  1. v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise, provoke]

  2. call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" [syn: provoke, call forth, kick up]

  3. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant" [syn: educe, elicit, extract, draw out]

  4. evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth]

  5. call to mind or evoke [syn: suggest, paint a picture]

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Wikipedia
Evoke

Evoke may refer to:

  • E'voke, a British female vocal duo
  • Evoke (album), a 2005 electro-industrial album
  • Evoke (demo party), the largest demoparty held annually in Germany
  • Evoke Records, an independent record label
  • Evocation
Evoke (album)

Evoke is a 2005 album by the German industrial music project :wumpscut:.

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Usage examples of "evoke".

Evaporite deposits of anhydrite and gypsum were formed in the circum-Atlantic rifting and circum-Tethyan zones, and evoke a picture of coastal deserts such as near the modern Red Sea.

Duncan and the darker emotions that Aymer evoked, but she had not let them see it.

Even the clacking of billiard balls, evoking slams, could take me there.

I was glad to see that I should have comfortable quarters, but I was annoyed by a very unpleasant stink which tainted the air, and which could certainly not be agreeable to the spirits I had to evoke.

She talked on and on, developing this main idea that in days of older faiths there were deific types of life upon the earth, evoked by worship and beneficial to humanity.

In practice, however, the frequently evoked political difference between the two approaches is surely less uniform and predictable than such stark dichotomies would imply.

Its holographic lighting evoked the quantum eigenfunctions that described a buckyball.

His spirit was as steady as a rock, as enduring as the earth, and like the flash of a light, the sight of his good, grey ugly face could always evoke for Eugene the whole wrought fabric of his life in the city, the whole design of wandering and return, with a thousand memories of youth and hunger, of loneliness, fear, despair, of glory, love, exultancy and joy.

His fleeting smile suggested weary tolerance of a question which, while both gratuitous and stupid, managed to evoke pain.

He goes through the crowded thoroughfares, through cluttered places, through factories, hotels, wharves, sits in railway trains, and the glare and tumult and pulsation, the engines and locomotives and cranes, the whole mad phantasmagoria of the modern city, evoke images in him, inflame him to reproduce them in all their weight and gianthood and mass, their blackness and luridness and power.

Jim had put Hec out of his mind once the siege was over, but he was glad to see him again, despite the memories his lined old face evoked.

Lady Jane again thanked Jeannie for the Hogmanay gala and commented on the charm, the wonderful atmosphere evoked by Dunphaedair.

A dropped hymnal during rehearsal of the Sunday offertory evoked biting remarks.

I doubt not, that had once made Colonel Jere Lansdale quick to think of his pistols when another evoked it.

The letters followed in a terrific sequence--a series of laudations which the Chevalier Bayard need not have scorned to evoke.