Choke vs Cry - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between choke and cry

is that choke is to perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning while cry is to cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.

As verbs the difference between choke and cry

is that 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 while cry is to shed tears; to weep.

As nouns the difference between choke and cry

is that choke is a control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold while cry is a shedding of tears; the act of crying.

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

cry

English

Verb

(en-verb)

To shed tears; to weep.

That sad movie always makes me cry .

To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.

* Shakespeare

All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I'll speak.

* Bunyan

The man ran on, crying , Life! life! Eternal life!

(ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.

* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 46

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice.

To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.

* Bible, Psalms cxlvii. 9

the young ravens which cry

* Shakespeare

In a cowslip's bell I lie / There I couch when owls do cry .

To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.

to cry oneself to sleep

To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.

to cry goods

* Crashaw

Love is lost, and thus she cries him.

Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

* Judd

I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.

Synonyms

* weep * See also * See also

Antonyms

* laugh

Derived terms

* crybaby * cry in one's beer * cry like a baby * cry one's eyes out * cry off * cry out * cry someone a river * cry the blues * cry wolf * don't cry over spilt milk * kiss and cry

Noun

(cries)

A shedding of tears; the act of crying.

After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry .

A shout or scream.

I heard a cry from afar.

Words shouted or screamed.

a battle cry

(collectively) A group of hounds.

* Shakespeare

A cry more tunable / Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.

(Milton)

(obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.

* Shakespeare

Would not this get me a fellowship in a cry of players?

(ambitransitive, of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.

"Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.

A desperate or urgent request.

(obsolete) Common report; gossip.

* Shakespeare

The cry goes that you shall marry her.

Derived terms

* battle cry * hue and cry * war cry

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