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Shoulder vs Chuck - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between shoulder and chuck

is that shoulder is the part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck while chuck is (cooking) meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal or chuck can be (dialect|obsolete) a chicken, a hen or chuck can be (woodchuck).

As verbs the difference between shoulder and chuck

is that shoulder is to push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder while chuck is to make a clucking sound.

shoulder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.
  • #The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
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  • #*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder . The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
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  • #*:With just the turn of a shoulder' she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, ''Mount Vernon'', river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a ' shoulder .
  • #(lb) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
  • #A cut of meat comprised of the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
  • #The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
  • Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
  • A shelf between two levels.
  • #A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency; a hard shoulder.
  • #:
  • #The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
  • #*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • #*:the north western shoulder of the mountain
  • #The lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
  • #The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
  • #An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
  • (lb) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
  • The portion below the neck.
  • #(lb) The rounded portion of stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
  • #The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
  • #(lb) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
  • (lb) That which supports or sustains; support.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:In thy shoulder do I build my seat.
  • Derived terms

    * cold shoulder * hard shoulder * rub shoulders * shoulder bag * shoulder blade * shoulder check * shoulder-length * shoulder pad * shoulder season * shoulder to cry on * straight from the shoulder * you can't put an old head on young shoulders

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
  • * (rfdate) (Edmond Spenser)
  • As they the earth would shoulder from her seat.
  • * (rfdate) (Rowe)
  • ''Around her numberless the rabble flowed, / Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.
  • To carry (something) on one's shoulders.
  • (figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
  • *
  • To put (something) on one's shoulders.
  • *
  • (figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
  • shoulder the blame
  • To place (something) against one's shoulders.
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  • To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
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  • To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
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  • chuck

    English

    Etymology 1

    Variant of chock.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
  • * 1975 , Thomas Fabbricante, William J. Sultan, Practical Meat Cutting and Merchandising: Beef , page 141,
  • Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.
  • * 2001 , Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook: A Juicy and Authoritative Guide , page 190:
  • Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.
  • * 2006 , , The Meat Buyers Guide: Beef, Lamb, Veal, Pork, and Poultry , page 113,
  • The chucks' are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the ' chucks .
  • (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
  • * 1824 , Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions , Volume 42, page 88,
  • I have had a chuck' of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the ' chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.
  • * 1912 , Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley, American Machinist Grinding Book , page 322,
  • Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks .
  • * 2003', Julie K. Petersen, “'''chuck ”, entry in ''Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary , page 181,
  • A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks' to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has '''chucks''', they are typically either clamping '''chucks''' or vacuum ' chucks .
  • * 2008 , Ramon Francis Bonaquist, NHCRP Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice , page 30,
  • The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepTM is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic dialect term for chicken, imitative of a hen's cluck.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
  • A clucking sound.
  • * 1998 , Scott Freeman, Jon C. Herron, Evolutionary Analysis , page 604,
  • The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks'. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain '''chucks''' in preference to calls that contain no ' chucks .
  • (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
  • Are you all right, chuck ?
  • * Shakespeare
  • Pray, chuck , come hither.
  • A gentle touch or tap.
  • She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
  • (informal) A casual throw.
  • (slang) An act of vomiting.
  • (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a clucking sound.
  • To call, as a hen her chickens.
  • (Dryden)
  • To touch or tap gently.
  • (informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
  • Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
  • (informal) To discard, to throw away.
  • This food?s gone off - you?d better chuck it.
  • (slang) To vomit.
  • (cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
  • (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
  • Let's chuck .
  • (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
  • (Marston)
  • To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
  • Derived terms
    * chuck a charley * chuck a wobbly * chuck in * chuck up * upchuck

    Etymology 3

    From woodchuck.

    Alternative forms

    * 'chuck

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too'', '' , page 50,
  • Chucks' are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. For some reason, my family didn?t eat ' ?chucks . Few families in the area did.

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A small pebble.
  • Synonyms
    * chuckstone, chuckiestone ----