Chock vs Choke - What's the difference?
chock | choke |
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 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
To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
* Dryden
(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
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
* Jonathan Swift
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
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.
Choke is a alternative form of chock.
In transitive terms the difference between chock and choke
is that chock is to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch while choke is to prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.In intransitive terms the difference between chock and choke
is that chock is to fill up, as a cavity while choke is to perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.As an adverb chock
is entirely; quite.chock
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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.
choke
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (dialectal)Verb
(chok)- With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
- to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
- (Addison)
- Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.
- The words choked in his throat.
- I was choked at this word.