Bag vs. Poke — What's the Difference?

A bag (also known regionally as a sack) is a common tool in the form of a non-rigid container. The use of bags predates recorded history, with the earliest bags being no more than lengths of animal skin, cotton, or woven plant fibers, folded up at the edges and secured in that shape with strings of the same material.Despite their simplicity, bags have been fundamental for the development of human civilization, as they allow people to easily collect loose materials such as berries or food grains, and to transport more items than could readily be carried in the hands.

Thrust (something, such as one's head) in a particular direction

A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.

Jab or prod (someone or something) with one's finger or a sharp object

A handbag; a purse.

An act of poking someone or something

A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.

A look or search around a place

A pouchlike or sagging organ or part of the body, such as a cow's udder.

Power or acceleration in a car

An object that resembles a pouch.

A woman's bonnet with a projecting brim or front, popular especially in the early 19th century.

(Nautical) The sagging or bulging part of a sail.

A bag or small sack

The amount that a bag can hold.

Another term for pokeweed

An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.

A North American plant of the lily family with a poisonous black rhizome and tall sprays of yellow-green flowers.

(Baseball) A base.

A Hawaiian dish of marinated raw fish or seafood, often served over rice

(Slang) An area of interest or skill

To push or jab at, as with a finger or an arm; prod.

(Slang) A woman considered ugly or unkempt.

To make (a hole or pathway, for example) by or as if by prodding, elbowing, or jabbing

To put into a bag

To push; thrust

To cause to bulge like a pouch.

To stir (a fire) by prodding the wood or coal with a poker or stick.

To capture or kill as game

(Slang) To strike; punch.

To gain; acquire

To make thrusts or jabs, as with a stick or poker.

To capture or arrest

To pry or meddle; intrude

To accomplish or achieve

To search or look curiously in a desultory manner

To fail to attend purposely; skip

To proceed in a slow or lazy manner; putter

To stop doing or considering; abandon

To thrust forward; appear

To terminate the employment of.

A push, thrust, or jab.

To pack items in a bag.

(Slang) A punch or blow with the fist

To hang loosely

One who moves slowly or aimlessly; a dawdler.

To swell out; bulge.

A projecting brim at the front of a bonnet.

A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

A large bonnet having a projecting brim.

A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.

A sack; a bag.

(colloquial) One's preference.

Pokeweed.

(derogatory) An ugly woman.

A Hawaiian salad or appetizer traditionally consisting of cubed raw fish, often yellowfin tuna, that is marinated in soy sauce and sesame oil, and mixed with diced onions, sesame seeds, and ginger.

A fellow gay man.

To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.

(baseball) First, second, or third base.

(figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around.

(preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

To modify the value stored in (a memory address).

(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

(transitive) To put a poke device to prevent leaping or breaking fences on (an animal).

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

(transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.

A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.

The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

(transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.

A scrotum.

To penetrate in sexual intercourse.

(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

A prod, jab, or thrust.

A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

A lazy person; a dawdler.

(slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

A stupid or uninteresting person.

£1000, a grand.

An old, worn-out horse.

(informal) A large number or amount.

(US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.

(transitive) To put into a bag.

The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.

(transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.

(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

A poke bonnet.

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

A hit, especially an extra base hit.

(slang) To steal.

A sack or bag.

To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.

A long, wide sleeve.

(slang) To arrest.

An ice cream cone.

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

(dialectal) Pokeweed.

To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

(Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.

To fit with a bag to collect urine.

A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (Phytolacca decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; - called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.

To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag

A bag; a sack; a pocket.

To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

A long, wide sleeve; - called also poke sleeve.

To hang like an empty bag.

The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.

To drop away from the correct course.

A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person.

To become pregnant.

A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.

To forget, ignore, or get rid of.

To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.

To show particular puffy emotion

To thrust with the horns; to gore.

To swell with arrogance.

To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.

To laugh uncontrollably.

To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about.

To criticise sarcastically.

Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow);

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

(boxing) a blow with the fist;

The quantity of game bagged.

Poke or thrust abruptly;

A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.

Search or inquire in a meddlesome way;

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

Stir by poking;

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

Hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument;

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

Make a hole by poking

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

To swell with arrogance.

To become pregnant.

A flexible container with a single opening;

The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person);

Place that runner must touch before scoring;

A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women);

The quantity that a bag will hold;

A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;

An ugly or ill-tempered woman;

Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

An activity that you like or at which you are superior;

Capture or kill, as in hunting;

Hang loosely, like an empty bag

Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

Take unlawfully

Put into a bag;