Appeal vs Shock - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To accuse (someone of something).
*, Book VII:
*:And there opynly Sir Mador appeled the quene of the deth of hys cousyn Sir Patryse.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , V.9:
*:He gan that Ladie strongly to appele / Of many haynous crymes by her enured.
(transitive, legal, chiefly, US) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination of for decision.
:(Tomlins)
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*:For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request.
*(Samuel Horsley) (1733-1806)
*:I appeal to the Scriptures in the original.
* (1800-1859)
*:They appealed to the sword.
To be attractive.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
(cricket) To ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that" or "Howzat".
To summon; to challenge.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists.
To invoke.
:(Milton)
(legal) (a) An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for re-examination or review. (b) The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected. (c) The right of appeal. (d) An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public. (e) An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver.
A summons to answer to a charge.
A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty.
* Francis Bacon
# (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
Resort to physical means; recourse.
The power to attract or interest.
Sudden, heavy impact.
# (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
# Electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.
# Circulatory shock, a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
# A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance
(mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
To cause to be emotionally shocked.
To give an electric shock.
(obsolete) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
* De Quincey
An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
* Tusser
* Thomson
(commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass)
(obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
* 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
As verbs the difference between appeal and shock
is that appeal is (obsolete) to accuse (someone of something) while shock is to cause to be emotionally shocked or shock can be to collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.As nouns the difference between appeal and shock
is that appeal is (legal) (a) an application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for re-examination or review (b) the mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected (c) the right of appeal (d) an accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public (e) an accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver while shock is sudden, heavy impact or shock can be an arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.appeal
English
Alternative forms
* appeale (obsolete) * appeall (obsolete) * appelVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* appeal toNoun
(en noun)- (Tomlins)
- (Bouvier)
- (John Dryden)
- a kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders
Derived terms
* curb appeal * sex appeal * street appealSee also
* approvementExternal links
* * ----shock
English
(wikipedia shock)Alternative forms
* choque (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The train hit the buffers with a great shock .
Derived terms
* bow shock * culture shock * economic shock * electric shock * shock absorber * shock jock * shock mount * shock rock * shock site * shock therapy * shock wave, shockwave * shocker * shocking pink * shockproof * shockumentary * shockvertising * supply shock * technology shock * termination shock * toxic shock syndromeSynonyms
SeeReferences
*Verb
(en verb)- The disaster shocked the world.
- They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
- Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks .
- a head covered with a shock of sandy hair
- When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock (translating the German Spitz).
