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What is the difference between circulatory and shock?

circulatory | shock |

As nouns the difference between circulatory and shock

is that circulatory is (chemistry) a vessel with two portions unequally exposed to heat, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation while shock is sudden, heavy impact or shock can be an arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.

As a adjective circulatory

is of or pertaining to a circulation, especially to the circulatory system.

As a verb shock is

to cause to be emotionally shocked or shock can be to collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

circulatory

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Of or pertaining to a circulation, especially to the circulatory system.
    • circulatory diseases
    circulatory organs
  • Circular; going round.
    • a circulatory letter

    Noun

    (circulatories)
  • (chemistry) A vessel with two portions unequally exposed to heat, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.

    • shock

    English

    (wikipedia shock)

    Alternative forms

    * choque (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Sudden, heavy impact.
    • The train hit the buffers with a great shock .
  • # (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.
    • 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 syndrome
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to be emotionally shocked.
    • The disaster shocked the world.
  • To give an electric shock.
  • (obsolete) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
  • * De Quincey
    • They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
  • * Tusser
    • Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
  • * Thomson
    • Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks .
  • (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)
    • a head covered with a shock of sandy hair
  • (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
    • When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock (translating the German Spitz).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
    • to shock rye

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