different between chock vs chalk

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??k/
  • Homophone: chalk (cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from Gaulish *'?okka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”)), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock.

Noun

chock (plural chocks)

1. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
2. (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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)

1. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
3. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.

Derived terms

• unchock

Translations

Derived terms

(Note: chock full is not derived from this word. In fact, it is an alteration of the earlier choke-full, which most likely derives from a variant of the word cheek.)

Adverb

chock (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Entirely; quite.

Translations

Etymology 2

French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).

Noun

chock (plural chocks)

1. (obsolete) An encounter.

Verb

chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)

1. (obsolete) To encounter.

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

chock (third-person singular simple present chocks, present participle chocking, simple past and past participle chocked)

1. To make a dull sound.

References

• “chock”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN÷
• chock at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Partridge, Eric (2006): Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

Swedish

Noun

chock c

1. shock

Declension

Related terms

English

Alternative forms

• chaulk (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English chalk, chalke, from Old English cealc, borrowed from Latin calx (“limestone”), again borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khálix, “pebble”). Doublet of calx and cauk.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t????k/
• (General American) enPR: chôk, IPA^(key): /t???k/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): /t???k/
  • Homophone: chock
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

chalk (countable and uncountable, plural chalks)

1. (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone.

2. (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.

3. Tailor's chalk.
4. (uncountable, climbing) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk.

5. (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
6. (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
7. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ??? (c?k)
• ? Japanese: ??? (chako), ???? (ch?ku)
• ? Nepali: ?? (cak)
• ? Swahili: chaki
• ? Swazi: íshóki
• ? Thai: ????? (ch??k)
• ? Tsonga: choko
• ? Tulu: ???? (c?k)

Translations

Verb

chalk (third-person singular simple present chalks, present participle chalking, simple past and past participle chalked)

1. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.

2. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
3. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
4. (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
5. To manure (land) with chalk.
6. To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
   • Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.

Derived terms

Related terms

• calcium
• calx
• chalkboard

See also

• chalk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chalk (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chalk (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Alternative forms

• chalke, schalk, calke, schalke

Etymology

From Old English cealc, borrowed from Latin calx, in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khálix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?alk/
• (rare) IPA^(key): /kalk/
• Rhymes: -alk

Noun

chalk (uncountable)

1. chalk

Descendants

• English: chalk (see there for further descendants); cauk, cawk
• Scots: cauk, cawk

References

• “chalk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-14.