evoke

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Node seems to evoke strong responses from people.

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call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

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verb

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

verb

evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"

verb

deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for evoke.

verb

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

See also: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise, provoke

verb

evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"

verb

deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

verb

summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"

verb

call to mind; "this remark evoked sadness"

Example sentences

Node seems to evoke strong responses from people.

Who didn't evoke the Pink Floyd song "Dogs":And after a while, you can work on points for style.

Design is about how things work and, often, what feelings they evoke in the process.

It is a piece meant to evoke a specific emotional response.

That brand may evoke lifestyles, ideas, values, and people - but I assure you the logo has next to no role in that.

Every mention of "cloud" or "cloud computing" will evoke "oh yeah, you can get your phone pictures on your PC without hooking it up!".

When the top brass evoke these deaths, it's like they're saying "if our sainted dead soldiers followed these orders, how can you possibly disagree?

I thought he was just trying to evoke the purposeful animating idea that people of religion think about when they think about God.

Yes, many of them are superficial, but a lot of them tell incredible stories, teach life lessons, and evoke powerful emotions.

" that evoke the fear of having privacy violated, but people who are afraid of negative stimulus will override their fear for a more meaningful or important goal.

> shameless hoardingHoarding is a derogatory term, intended to evoke an emotional response from the reader.

Highly visible and likely to evoke accidental clicks are, unfortunately, highly correlated.

He evokes trust through previous collaboration during WW2, mentions cold war, pope and increasing trust between nations and then goes on to evoke empathy from the people using "we are one" kind of deal, and even manages to sneak in a reference to League of Nations tangentially hinting/threatening irrelevance of UN. I am fairly impressed.

A successful work invites the reader to collaborate in the construction of a mental universe which is vivid enough that the reader truly and deeply experiences the emotional state that the author is trying to evoke.