different between strangle vs chock

English

Etymology

From Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangul?, strangul?re, from Ancient Greek ????????????? (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from ????????? (strangál?, “a halter”); compare ???????? (strangós, “twisted”). Displaced Middle English wirien, awurien (“to strangle”) (> English worry).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st?æ??(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st?æ???l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l
• Hyphenation: stran?gle

Verb

strangle (third-person singular simple present strangles, present participle strangling, simple past and past participle strangled)

1. (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.

2. (transitive) To stifle or suppress.

3. (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.

4. (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.

Derived terms

• strangle the parrot
• strangleable
• stranglehold
• stranglement
• strangler
• strangling

Related terms

• strangulate
• strangulation

Translations

Noun

strangle (plural strangles)

1. (finance) A trading strategy using options, constructed through taking equal positions in a put and a call with different strike prices, such that there is a payoff if the underlying asset's value moves beyond the range of the two strike prices.

See also

• asphyxiate
• choke
• gag
• querk
• suffocate
• throttle

Further reading

• strangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• strangle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• strangle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Largents, langrets, tanglers, trangles

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

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