Shock vs Chock - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between chock and shock

is that chock is any wooden block used as a wedge or filler while shock is sudden, heavy impact.

As verbs the difference between chock and shock

is that chock is to stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch while shock is to cause to be emotionally shocked.

As an adverb chock

is entirely; quite.

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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chock

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from (etyl) *?okka (compare Breton ).

Noun

(en noun)

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, 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)

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.

To fill up, as a cavity.

* Fuller

The woodwork exactly chocketh into joints.

(nautical) To insert a line in a chock.

Derived terms

* chock full * chocks away * chock-a-block * unchock

Adverb

(-)

(nautical) Entirely; quite.

chock''' home; '''chock aft

Etymology 2

(etyl) choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) An encounter.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To encounter.

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

(en verb)

To make a dull sound.

* 1913 , D.H. Lawrence,

She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock . He tried the latch.
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