different between stricture vs choking

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin strict?ra, from Latin strictus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??kt???(?)/
• enPR: str?k'ch?r
• Rhymes: -?kt??(r)

Noun

stricture (countable and uncountable, plural strictures)

1. (usually in the plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action

2. a general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology

   I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.

3. a sternly critical remark or review
4. (medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
5. (obsolete) strictness
6. (obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     But whatever may be said of other matters , certainly the first draughts and strictures of Natural Religion and Morality are naturally in the Mind

7. (linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants

Related terms

Translations

Latin

Participle

strict?re

1. vocative masculine singular of strict?rus

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t???k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?o?k??/

Noun

choking (countable and uncountable, plural chokings)

1. The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
2. The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breath.
3. The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.

Translations

Verb

choking

1. present participle of choke

Anagrams

• Hocking, hocking