Shock vs Shack - What's the difference?

shock | shack |

As nouns the difference between shock and shack

is that shock is sudden, heavy impact while shack is a crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

As verbs the difference between shock and shack

is that shock is to cause to be emotionally shocked while shack is to live in or with; to shack up.

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

Anagrams

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shack

English

(wikipedia shack)

Etymology 1

Some authorities derive this word from (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=6 citation , passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}

Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.

Verb

(en verb)

To live in or with; to shack up.

Etymology 2

Obsolete variant of shake. Compare (etyl) .

Noun

(-)

(obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.

(obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.

(obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack .

* 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC11859773&id=rI0iE-yqyAMC&q=%22right+to+shack%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3D%2522right%2Bto%2Bshack%2522&pgis=1]

[...] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.

* 1996, J M Neeson, Commoners [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA]

The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack .

(UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

(Forby)

* Henry Ward Beecher

All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.

Derived terms

* common of shack

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.

(obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.

(Grose)

first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.

(UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.