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Shock vs Stound - What's the difference?

shock | stound |

As nouns the difference between shock and stound

is that shock is sudden, heavy impact or shock can be an arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook while stound is (chronology|obsolete) an hour or stound can be a stand; a stop or stound can be a receptacle for holding small beer.

As verbs the difference between shock and stound

is that shock is to cause to be emotionally shocked or shock can be to collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook while stound is (obsolete|or|dialectal|intransitive) to hurt, pain, smart or stound can be (obsolete) to stand still; stop.

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

    * ----

    stound

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) stond, stounde, . Related to (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Noun

    (s)
  • (chronology, obsolete) An hour.
  • * 1765 , Percy's Reliques, The King and the Tanner of Tamworth (original license: 1564):
    • What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound
  • (obsolete) A tide, season.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A time, length of time, hour, while.
  • * 1801 , Walter Scott, The Talisman :
    • He lay and slept, and swet a stound , / And became whole and sound.
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A brief span of time, moment, instant.
    • Listen to me a little stound .
    (Chaucer)
  • A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
  • (dialectal) A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
  • * 1857 , Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture :
    • No wonder that they cried unto the Lord, and felt a stound of despair shake their courage''
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • ere the point arriued, where it ought, / That seuen-fold shield, which he from Guyon brought / He cast betwene to ward the bitter stound [...].
  • A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
  • * 1895 , Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch: tailor in Dalkeith :
    • [...] and run away with him, almost whether he will or not, in a stound of unbearable love!
  • astonishment; amazement
    • (Spenser)
    (Gay)
    Derived terms
    * ill stound * in a stound * stoundmeal * umbestound * umstound * upon a stound

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To hurt, pain, smart.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene II, verses 93-95
    • Your wrath, weak boy ? Tremble at mine unless
    Retraction follow close upon the heels
    Of that late stounding insult […]
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive) To long or pine after, desire.
  • * 1823 , Edward Moor, Suffolk words and phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county :
    • Recently weaned children "stound after the breast."

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stand still; stop.
  • To stop to listen; pause.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stand; a stop.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) stound, stonde, stoonde, ston, from (etyl) . Compare stand .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A receptacle for holding small beer.

    • Anagrams

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