Lash vs Shock - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between lash and shock is that lash is the thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given while shock is sudden, heavy impact or shock can be an arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook. As verbs the difference between lash and shock is that lash is to strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one or lash can be to bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten while shock is to cause to be emotionally shocked or shock can be to collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook. As an adjective lash is (obsolete) remiss, lax.
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lash English
Etymology 1
(en)
Noun
( es)
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
- I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
(label) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
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A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
- The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
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In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
In British English, it refers to heavy drinking with friends, (i.e. We were out on the lash last night)
Verb
( es)
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. —
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- the whale lashes the sea with its tail.
- And big waves lash the frighted shores. —
* {{quote-news
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, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
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, passage=Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.}}
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. —
To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
- to lash vice
To ply the whip; to strike.
To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. —
(of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down
* {{quote-news
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, date=October 1
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, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland
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, passage=With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.}}
See also
* lash out
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lachier, from (etyl)
Verb
( es)
To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
- to lash something to a spar
- lash a pack on a horse's back
( to bind with a rope)
* Finnish:
( trans-mid)
* Jèrriais: ( t)
( trans-bottom)
Etymology 3
From (etyl) lasche'' (French '' ).
Adjective
( en adjective)
(obsolete) Remiss, lax.
(obsolete) Relaxed.
Soft, watery, wet.
* 1658': Fruits being unwholesome and '''lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)
(Ulster) excellent, wonderful
- ''We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash !
- That Chinese (food) was lash !
Drunk.
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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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