choke
IPA: tʃˈoʊk
noun
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
- (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- (electronics) A choking coil.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
verb
- (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
- (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
- (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
- (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
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Examples of "choke" in Sentences
- More important than the choke is the shot rattler in front of the chamber.
- We sent off a wedding gift of $1,010 (* gasp … choke choke*) to the government (on 10/1) and waited.
- After publicly receiving voluntary irrumatio by an entire rugby team how dare you finish off by using the word choke???
- Because the reflex of a choker when told not to choke is to (first probably vomit on his or her own legs but then) choke.
- No reason to retire my Remington Model 1100 Tournament Skeet, especially as I have gotten it a new barrel with screw-in choke tubes!
- The panel claims that risk assessment would decrease the chance of a terrorist attack at what it called a "choke point" at the airport.
- Two kinds of prunus also grow here, one of which, ** a handsome small tree, produces a black fruit having a very astringent taste whence the term choke-cherry applied to it.
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