invoke


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invoke
v. requests help or protection (from a deity); summon a spirit through witchcraft; request, make an appeal; pray; activate a command, cause a certain action (Computers)

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Invoke
Founded in 1999, Invoke® is a company based in the United States providing technology for a specific online market research methodology - large scale focus groups.

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invoke

Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) raise, conjure, conjure up, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
(hypernym) make, create
(hyponym) curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
(verb-group) provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up
(derivation) invocation
2. cite as an authority; resort to; "He invoked the law that would save him"; "I appealed to the law of 1900"; "She invoked an ancient law"
(synonym) appeal
(hypernym) mention, advert, bring up, cite, name, refer
3. request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection; "appeal to somebody for help"; "Invoke God in times of trouble"
(synonym) appeal
(hypernym) request, bespeak, call for, quest
(hyponym) plead
(derivation) invocation, supplication


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invoke
v. odvolat se na koho/co

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Invoke
(v. t.)
To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing.
  

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