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Chuck vs Chack - What's the difference?

chuck | chack |

As verbs the difference between chuck and chack

is that chuck is to make a clucking sound while chack is to toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

As a noun chuck

is meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.

As a proper noun Chuck

is a diminutive of the male given name Charles, of mostly American usage.

chuck

English

Etymology 1

Variant of chock.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
  • * 1975 , Thomas Fabbricante, William J. Sultan, Practical Meat Cutting and Merchandising: Beef , page 141,
    • Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.
  • * 2001 , Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook: A Juicy and Authoritative Guide , page 190:
    • Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.
  • * 2006 , , The Meat Buyers Guide: Beef, Lamb, Veal, Pork, and Poultry , page 113,
    • The chucks' are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the ' chucks .
  • (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
  • * 1824 , Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions , Volume 42, page 88,
    • I have had a chuck' of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the ' chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.
  • * 1912 , Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley, American Machinist Grinding Book , page 322,
    • Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks .
  • * 2003', Julie K. Petersen, “'''chuck ”, entry in ''Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary , page 181,
    • A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks' to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has '''chucks''', they are typically either clamping '''chucks''' or vacuum ' chucks .
  • * 2008 , Ramon Francis Bonaquist, NHCRP Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice , page 30,
    • The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepTM is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic dialect term for chicken, imitative of a hen's cluck.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
  • A clucking sound.
  • * 1998 , Scott Freeman, Jon C. Herron, Evolutionary Analysis , page 604,
    • The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks'. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain '''chucks''' in preference to calls that contain no ' chucks .
  • (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
    • Are you all right, chuck ?
  • * Shakespeare
    • Pray, chuck , come hither.
  • A gentle touch or tap.
    • She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
  • (informal) A casual throw.
  • (slang) An act of vomiting.
  • (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a clucking sound.
  • To call, as a hen her chickens.
    • (Dryden)
  • To touch or tap gently.
  • (informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
    • Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
  • (informal) To discard, to throw away.
    • This food?s gone off - you?d better chuck it.
  • (slang) To vomit.
  • (cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
  • (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
    • Let's chuck .
  • (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
    • (Marston)
  • To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
    • Derived terms
    * chuck a charley * chuck a wobbly * chuck in * chuck up * upchuck

    Etymology 3

    From woodchuck.

    Alternative forms

    * 'chuck

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too'', '' , page 50,
    • Chucks' are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. For some reason, my family didn?t eat ' ?chucks . Few families in the area did.

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A small pebble.
    • Related terms
    * chucks (game played with pebbles)
    Synonyms
    * chuckstone, chuckiestone ----

    chack

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

    • Etymology 2

    From , an American figure skater whose bronze medal winning performance at the 1993 US National Championships was not broadcast on televsion because the producers did not think he would win a medal.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ice-skating) To not broadcast a medal-winning or otherwise memorable or crucial figure skating performance. This only occurs in a live broadcast because the network has to decide which programs to show and which to cut in the interest of time. If a skater is low in the rankings and several big names are set to skate later, that performance may be cut.
  • *1998: Louis Epstein, US National Men's Final RESULTS in rec.sport.skating.ice.figure [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.skating.ice.figure/browse_thread/thread/5e40b3fa477ba70b/da64de9bdfc766b8?lnk=st&q=chack+skate&rnum=4#da64de9bdfc766b8]
  • *:Michael Chack pulled WAY up in the standings in his long [skate event]...but was chacked while we saw five guys skate worse!!
  • *2002: Jonas, International Skating Union Discussion Boards: Figure Skating: Yukari Nakano, the reigning world jr silver medalist, landed a triple axel [http://ww2.isu.org/discus/messages/1/34784a84.html?MondayOctober2120020203pm]
  • *:I'm hoping ABC doesn't chack her performance...how could they??
  • *2004: Rex, The Rest of Skate Canada: Phaneuf Rocks! The First Time I saw the Two Canadian Pairs Skate! in rec.sport.skating.ice.figure [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.skating.ice.figure/browse_thread/thread/d0998ee9fbbe1c72/26a9559efe8a5db7?lnk=st&q=chack+skate&rnum=20#26a9559efe8a5db7]
  • *:Did they chack Kostner's skate because of the fluff piece on the Russian pairs or not? I kind of like her and wanted to see her.
    • References
    *(Michael Chack) * Origins of the term 'Chack' * rec.sport.skating.ice.figure FAQ * Background information on Michael Chack * Michael Chack on FSM English eponyms