Synonym: appeal, beg, beseech, entreat, implore, plead, pray. Similar words: provoke, involve, involved, involvement, joke, poke, stroke, broker. Meaning: [ɪn'vəʊk] 
v. 1. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic 2. cite as an authority; resort to 3. request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection.
v. 1. summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic 2. cite as an authority; resort to 3. request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection. 
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(151) The first section of Listing 5 tells Emacs which major mode to invoke when you load a file with a particular extension, similar to the way Windows associates application based on file type.
(152) From a JAX-RPC Service, you can use a proxy to invoke the web service's operations.
(153) Describes how to invoke the command - line compiler at the MS - DOS prompt or from a specific subdirectory.
(154) But like the movie mummies who invoke the malediction, the legend of the mummy's curse seems destined never to die.
(155) Like a synchronous service proxy, the pair of message queues acts as a single address the consumer uses to invoke the service, regardless of how many providers may be listening, as shown in Figure 5.
(156) This minority resorts to the Senate rule requiring a three-fifths vote — 60 votes — to close (invoke cloture on) debate.
(157) The method must also invoke the processInvoice operation of the InvoiceProcessing interface when the price calculation has been completed as specified in the service protocol.
(158) When it gets a response back from the server,[http://sentencedict.com/invoke.html] it will invoke the load function that is passed to xhrPost.
(159) Under Senate rules, it takes 60 votes to invoke cloture and usher a bill to a vote.
(160) Other helpful, platform-independent functions include convpath() to convert a path name to the native path name format and run() to invoke another executable.
More similar words: provoke, involve, involved, involvement, joke, poke, stroke, broker, bespoke, spokesman, invade, in vain, invent, invest, invasion, in view of, investor, inventory, invention, invitation, investment, inveterate, investigate, investigator, investigation, direct investment.