Chock vs Drown - What's the difference?
chock | drown |
Any wooden block used as a wedge or filler
(nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
Blocks made of either wood, plastic or metal, used to keep a parked aircraft in position.
* 2000 , Lindbergh: A Biography , by Leonard Mosley,
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
To fill up, as a cavity.
* Fuller
(nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
(nautical) Entirely; quite.
To make a dull sound.
* 1913 , D.H. Lawrence,
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.
To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out".
* Sir J. Davies
* Addison
To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.
In lang=en terms the difference between chock and drown
is that chock is to fill up, as a cavity while drown is to lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass.As verbs the difference between chock and drown
is that chock is to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch or chock can be (obsolete) to encounter or chock can be to make a dull sound while drown is to be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.As a noun chock
is any wooden block used as a wedge or filler or chock can be (obsolete) an encounter.As an adverb chock
is (nautical) entirely; quite.chock
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from (etyl) *?okka (compare Breton ).Noun
(en noun)page 82
- On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, signaled chocks -away to those on the ground below him.
Verb
(en verb)- The woodwork exactly chocketh into joints.
Derived terms
* chock full * chocks away * chock-a-block * unchockAdverb
(-)- chock''' home; '''chock aft
Etymology 2
(etyl) choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).Etymology 3
Onomatopoeic.Verb
(en verb)- She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock . He tried the latch.
drown
English
Verb
(en verb)- most men being in sensual pleasures drowned
- My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
- ''The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images etc.
