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shock
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)
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- (physics) A shock wave.
- (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)
- (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked, to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.
- (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
- (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.
- 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque
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)
- 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.
- 1557, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
- (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, such as hair or grass.
- His head boasted a shock of sandy hair.
- (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)
- 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
Verb
shock (third-person singular simple present shocks, present participle shocking, simple past and past participle shocked)
- (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)
- shock (medical; violent or unexpected event)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English shock.
Noun
shock m (plural shocks)
- shock
Derived terms
shock From the web:
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- what shocks should i buy
- what shocked the yeehats
- what shocks the heart
- what shock oil for traxxas slash
- what shocking news did the commander
bounce
English
Etymology
From Middle English bunsen (“to beat, thump”), perhaps imitative. Compare Low German bunsen (“to beat”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb”), and akin to bonken (“to bang, smash”), and possibly English bang.
Pronunciation
- enPR: bouns, IPA(key): /ba?ns/
- Rhymes: -a?ns
Verb
bounce (third-person singular simple present bounces, present participle bouncing, simple past and past participle bounced)
- (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
- (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- He bounces nervously on his chair.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- He bounced the child on his knee.
- The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
- (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
- I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.
- (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- She bounced happily into the room.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, On Mr. Pulteney's Being Put Out of the Council
- Out bounced the mastiff.
- To move rapidly (between).
- (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced.
- (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.
- (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
- 1946, Yachting (volume 80, page 46)
- Nobody took umbrage and bounced me out of the Union for being a pro.
- 1946, Yachting (volume 80, page 46)
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
- The squadron was bounced north of the town.
- (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
- See if it helps to bounce the router.
- (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.
- What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.
- The girl in the bar told me her address was [email protected], but my mail to that address bounced back to me.
- (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
- (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.
- (transitive, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.
- (slang, archaic) To bully; to scold.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Fletcher to this entry?)
- (slang, archaic) To boast; to bluster.
- (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
- 1708, John Partridge, Squire Bickerstaff Detected
- Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
- 1708, John Partridge, Squire Bickerstaff Detected
Synonyms
- (change direction of motion after hitting an obstacle): bounce back, rebound
- (move quickly up and down): bob
- (have sexual intercourse): bang, do it, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
bounce (countable and uncountable, plural bounces)
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- (Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- The sack, licensing.
- A bang, boom.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
- I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
- (archaic) A drink based on brandyW.
- (archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- The bounce burst ope[sic] the door.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- (archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- A genre of New Orleans music.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) Drugs.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) Swagger.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A 'good' beat.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A talent for leaping.
Synonyms
- (change of direction of motion after hitting an obstacle): rebound
- (movement up and down): bob, bobbing (repeated), bouncing (repeated)
- (talent for leaping): ups, mad ups
Derived terms
- bouncy
- on the bounce
Translations
References
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- what bounce for lob wedge
- what bounce rate is good
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