different between panic vs shock

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæn?k/
• Rhymes: -æn?k

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French panique, from Ancient Greek ??????? (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”), from ??? (Pán, “Pan”). Pan is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.

Alternative forms

• panick (obsolete)

Adjective

panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to the god Pan.
2. Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:

     All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p.537:

     At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.

   • 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:

     Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.

Noun

panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)

1. Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.

   • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.

   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.

2. (finance, economics) Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
3. (computing) A kernel panic or system crash.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)

1. (intransitive) To feel overwhelming fear.
2. (transitive) To cause somebody to panic.
3. (by extension, computing, intransitive) To crash.
4. (by extension, computing, transitive) To cause the system to crash.

Translations

Related terms

• panicky

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin panicum.

Noun

panic

1. (botany) A plant of the genus Panicum.

Synonyms

• panicgrass, panic grass

Anagrams

• cap'in, incap

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pa??t?s]
• Hyphenation: pa?nic

Noun

panic m anim (feminine panna)

1. male virgin

Declension

Related terms

• panna f
• pán m
• paní f

Further reading

• panic in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• panic in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin panicum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.nik/

Noun

panic m (plural panics)

1. (botany) Refers to several thorny shrubs; cockspur, panic, panicgrass

Synonyms

• pied-de-coq
• patte de poule
• crête de coq

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?it?s/

Noun

panic m (genitive singular panica, nominative plural panici, genitive plural panicov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. male virgin

Declension

Derived terms

• panický
• panicky
• panickos?, panictvo

Related terms

• panna f

Further reading

• panic in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

English

Alternative forms

• choque (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -?k, -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkan? (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakan? (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kAg'-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake. Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). More at shog.

Noun

shock (countable and uncountable, plural shocks)

1. A sudden, heavy impact.
   1. (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
   2. A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
   3. (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
   4. (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
   5. (physics) A shock wave.

2. (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:surprise

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shokku)
• ? Korean: ?? (syokeu)

Translations

Verb

shock (third-person singular simple present shocks, present participle shocking, simple past and past participle shocked)

1. (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked, to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.

2. (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
   • 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque

     They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “shock”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Etymology 2

Variant of shag.

Noun

shock (plural shocks)

1. An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
   • 1557, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

     Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.

   • Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks.

2. (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
3. (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.

   His head boasted a shock of sandy hair.

4. (obsolete) 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

shock (third-person singular simple present shocks, present participle shocking, simple past and past participle shocked)

1. (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

Anagrams

• Kosch, hocks

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English shock.

Noun

shock m (invariable)

1. shock (medical; violent or unexpected event)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shock.

Noun

shock m (plural shocks)

1. shock

Derived terms