Adorn vs Choke - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between adorn and choke

is that adorn is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate while choke is to be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way.

As nouns the difference between adorn and choke

is that adorn is (obsolete) adornment while choke is a control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.

adorn

English

Verb

(en verb)

To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

a man adorned with noble statuary and columns

a character adorned with every Christian grace

a gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters

* Bible, Isa. lxi. 10

as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels

* Goldsmith

At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.

Synonyms

* beautify * bedeck * decorate * deck * grace * ornament * prettify * See also

Noun

(obsolete) adornment

(Spenser)

Anagrams

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choke

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (dialectal)

Verb

(chok)

To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way.

To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.

* Shakespeare

With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.

To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud

(Addison)

To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.

* Dryden

Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.

(intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) to reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).

To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.

To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.

To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.

* Sir Walter Scott

The words choked in his throat.

To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.

* Jonathan Swift

I was choked at this word.

To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

Noun

(en noun)

A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.

(sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.

A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.

A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.

The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.

Derived terms

* choker * choke collar * unchoke