Throttle vs Gag - What's the difference?

Throttle is a related term of gag.

As nouns the difference between throttle and gag

is that throttle is a valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine while gag is gag (a joke or other mischievous prank).

As a verb throttle

is to cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc).

throttle

English

(wikipedia throttle)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *. More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.

The lever or pedal that controls this valve.

The windpipe or trachea.

(Sir Walter Scott)

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(throttl)

To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).

To strangle or choke someone.

* Milton

Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.

To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.

To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.

To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

* Shakespeare

Throttle their practised accent in their fears.

gag

English

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (head) (Group-specific antigen)

group specific antigens

Noun

(en noun)

A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.

(legal) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.

A joke or other mischievous prank.

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A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.

(archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.

a gag of mutton fat

(Lamb)

Synonyms

* (legal) gag order * (joke) See also

Derived terms

* sight gag

Verb

To experience the vomiting reflex.

He gagged when he saw the open wound.

To cause to heave with nausea.

(rfc-sense) To : to order a recruit to exercise until he "gags" (usually spoken in exaggeration).

To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.

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, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}

''The victims could not speak because the burglar had gagged them with duct tape.

(figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.

When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.

* Macaulay

The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged , and reason to be hoodwinked.

To pry or hold open by means of a gag.

* Fortescue (translation)

mouths gagged to such a wideness

Derived terms

* gag me with a spoon