different between throttle vs throttler

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????t?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???at?l/
• Rhymes: -?t?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English *throtel, diminutive of throte (“throat”), equivalent to throat +? -le. Compare German Drossel (“throttle”). More at throat.

Noun

throttle (plural throttles)

1. A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
2. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.

   Synonyms: accelerator, gas pedal, gas

3. (anatomy, archaic) The windpipe or trachea.
   • 1817, Walter Scott, The Search After Happiness, or, The Quest of Sultaun Solimaun

     She doucely span her flax and milk'd her
     Until the Sultaun strain'd his princely throttle

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English throtlen (“to choke, strangle, suffocate”), from the noun (see above). Compare German erdrosseln (“to strangle, choke, throttle”).

Verb

throttle (third-person singular simple present throttles, present participle throttling, simple past and past participle throttled)

1. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
2. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
3. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
4. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
5. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

Derived terms

• throttle down

Translations

English

Etymology

throttle +? -er

Noun

throttler (plural throttlers)

1. (sometimes figuratively) One who or that which throttles.
   • Missionary Review of the World; 1878-1939 (volume 20, part 2, page 723)

     […] a crowd of ragged, discharged soldiers, who, having served a government which takes and never gives, returning home without pay, took vengeance on the legalized throttlers of travel and trade.

   • 1996, James J. Townsend, Web Development with Microsoft Resources (page 191)

     Current Blocked Async I/O Requests is the number of current asynchronous I/O requests blocked by bandwidth throttler.