Used in a Sentence

invokes

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for invokes.

Editorial note

Deciding a forged certificate is valid is catastrophic, and invokes no sort of memory related exploit at all.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of invokes gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

verb

(transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.

verb

(transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for invokes.

verb

(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

verb

(transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.

verb

(transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.

verb

(transitive) To call to mind (something) for some purpose.

Example sentences

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Deciding a forged certificate is valid is catastrophic, and invokes no sort of memory related exploit at all.

2

What would syntactically be a reference to a method in other languages instead invokes the method with no arguments.

3

And now let's extend that to playing an audio snippet that invokes a stack smash?

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There's a reason Golang's runtime is compiled with the Golang toolchan, and why it invokes syscalls directly as opposed to going through libc.

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But wouldn't that be true all instances where the court invokes chevron?

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I second the notion that keeping it in pixel art form invokes a childhood-like nostalgia.

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The movie invariably invokes a feeling of pure creativity in me.

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Actually it invokes undefined behavior when it passes a float to printf() and then tries to print it using %d (which of course expects int).

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I thought about what BI gives you, thought about images it invokes, etc.

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That way (best-case scenario), each wrapped field/method/constructor/function implies only one generated lua_CFunction, which invokes the Lua API to retrieve the values and finally call the wrapped function with them.

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I am not a fan of citing Google Trends as data visualization not because it's bad data, but because it invokes correlation-implies-causation hard and is extremely kneejerk.

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If you have a function which invokes a different object (or more commonly, a different network service), you pass that as a parameter instead of making a call inside the function.

Quote examples

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What is surprising is how basically 15 lines of python implementing these rules, invokes a very real emotional response in a lot of people:-) I named it "Wilhelm".

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At one point Hiley invokes the idea of "information" intrinsic to understanding quantum transformations, so it seems not coincidental that just a couple of days ago an article about Christopher Fuchs thoughts was an HN topic.

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But the Court ends this debate, in an opinion lacking even a thin veneer of law." Thomas: - "[T]he majority invokes our Constitution in the name of a 'liberty' that the Framers would not have recognized, to the detriment of the liberty they sought to protect.

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It also invokes the dtors for the object, and, more importantly, does all this before the caller method returns, so that when "delete this" finishes, the program still has to execute code in the method context of a dead object --- which usually works.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use invokes in a sentence?

Deciding a forged certificate is valid is catastrophic, and invokes no sort of memory related exploit at all.

What does invokes mean?

(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

What part of speech is invokes?

invokes is commonly used as verb.