Abandon vs Chuck - What's the difference?
abandon | chuck |
(obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
* Macaulay
To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
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To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
* (rfdate) I. Taylor:
(obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
* 1594 , , The Taming of the Shrew , act I, scene ii:
* Udall
To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.
To surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss.
A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. .
* 1954 , , Messiah :
* 2007 , Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, :
(obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
(obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.
* 1330 , Arthour and Merlin :
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(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
* 1975 , Thomas Fabbricante, William J. Sultan, Practical Meat Cutting and Merchandising: Beef ,
* 2001 , Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook: A Juicy and Authoritative Guide , page 190:
* 2006 , , The Meat Buyers Guide: Beef, Lamb, Veal, Pork, and Poultry ,
(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
* 1824 , Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions , Volume 42,
* 1912 , Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley, American Machinist Grinding Book ,
* 2003', Julie K. Petersen, “'''chuck ”, entry in ''Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary ,
* 2008 , Ramon Francis Bonaquist, NHCRP Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice ,
(dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
A clucking sound.
* 1998 , Scott Freeman, Jon C. Herron, Evolutionary Analysis ,
(slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
* Shakespeare
A gentle touch or tap.
(informal) A casual throw.
(slang) An act of vomiting.
(cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
To make a clucking sound.
To call, as a hen her chickens.
To touch or tap gently.
(informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
(informal) To discard, to throw away.
(slang) To vomit.
(cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
(South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
(obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
* 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too'', '' ,
As nouns the difference between abandon and chuck
is that abandon is a yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences while chuck is (countable) a chuck taylor shoe (usually referred to in plural form, chucks ).As a verb abandon
is (obsolete) to subdue; to take control of .As an adverb abandon
is (obsolete|not comparable) freely; entirely.As a proper noun chuck is
a diminutive of the male given name charles , of mostly american usage.abandon
English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) abandounen, from (etyl) abandoner, formed from . See also (l), (l). * Displaced (etyl) forleten .Verb
(en verb)- He abandoned himself to his favourite vice.
- Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned .
- Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
- Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
- that he might abandon them from him
Synonyms
(synonyms of "abandon") * abdicate * blin * cede * desert * forego * forlet * forsake * give up * leave * quit * relinquish * renounce * resign * retire * surrender * withdraw from * withsake * yieldDerived terms
(terms derived from "abandon") * aband * abandoned * abandonee * abandoner * abandonwareEtymology 2
* From (etyl), from (etyl) abandon, from abondonner.Noun
(en noun)- I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon : 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'
- They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.
Synonyms
* (giving up to impulses) wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraintAdverb
(en adverb)- His ribbes and scholder fel adoun,/Men might se the liver abandoun .
References
chuck
English
Etymology 1
Variant of chock.Noun
(en noun)page 141,
- Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.
- Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.
page 113,
- The chucks' are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the ' chucks .
page 88,
- I have had a chuck' of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the ' chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.
page 322,
- Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks .
page 181,
- A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks' to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has '''chucks''', they are typically either clamping '''chucks''' or vacuum ' chucks .
page 30,
- The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepTM is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic dialect term for chicken, imitative of a hen's cluck.Noun
(en noun)page 604,
- The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks'. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain '''chucks''' in preference to calls that contain no ' chucks .
- Are you all right, chuck ?
- Pray, chuck , come hither.
- She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
Verb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
- Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
- This food?s gone off - you?d better chuck it.
- Let's chuck .
- (Marston)
Derived terms
* chuck a charley * chuck a wobbly * chuck in * chuck up * upchuckEtymology 3
From woodchuck.Alternative forms
* 'chuckNoun
(en noun)page 50,
- Chucks' are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. For some reason, my family didn?t eat ' ?chucks . Few families in the area did.