to choke

Definition of to choke in English English dictionary: scrag; quackle; To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning; A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold; A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage; To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way; To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool; A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot; Of a cave passage, to be partly or completely blocked by boulders, mud etc; {v} to stop the windpipe, block up, hinder, overpower; To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc; To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe; {i} act of choking; throttle (in a car); The tied end of a cartridge; be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"; become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"; A sling is threaded by passing one end through the opposite end and then pulled tight Also known in the US as a strangle Submitted by Piers from London, UK; A move blocking the carotid artery in the neck, restricting the passage of blood to the brain Failing to "tap" can put the victim into a temporary state of unconsciousness; To choke someone means to squeeze their neck until they are dead. The men pushed him into the entrance of a nearby building where they choked him with his tie. = strangle; a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current; The opposite of “spread” in platemaking When two colours butt up against one another, the darker colour area “chokes” the lighter colour, which is enlarged; fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"; become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"; To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle; A type of orifice installed at the surface on the tubing string to adjust and control the amount of oil or gas flowing from a well It is customary to refer to the production of a well as so many barrels or thousands of cubic feet through a 1/4-inch or 1/2-inch choke, or whatever the size of the opening The flowing pressure exerted by the well's production give an indication of the strength of the well, and is helpful in determining whether a well is commercial; cause to retch or choke; to stifle; When a publication is printed with several interacting spot colors, gaps or color shifts may appear between objects Choking closes this gap by overlapping a dark color over the boundary of a light color; When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs. The coffee was almost too hot to swallow and made him choke for a moment A small child could choke on the doll's hair Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her The girl choked to death after breathing in smoke Within minutes the hall was full of choking smoke; to cut down the air supply to the carburetor: also a part on the carburetor that cuts down the air supply; To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up; a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine; The device that regulates the amount of air allowed to enter the carburetor When closed, it enriches the fuel/air mixture and enables the car to start and run more easily when cold Automatic chokes have a thermostatic coil or thermostatic spring that activates a butterfly valve at the top of the carburetor barrel Older cars have manually operated chokes; wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent"; Device used to start cold vans; blockage of boulders or mud in a cave Alternatively a passive verb, as in "the cave is choked with yellow vans"; An orifice installed in a pipeline at the well surface to control the rate of flow; (Otomotiv) The device that regulates the amount of air allowed to enter the carburetor. When closed, it enriches the fuel/air mixture and enables the car to start and run more easily when cold. Automatic chokes have a thermostatic coil or thermostatic spring that activates a butterfly valve at the top of the carburetor barrel. Older cars have manually operated chokes; fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience; struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"; A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc; suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"; This term is used for turbo compressors and represents the maximum flow condition It is sometimes also referred to as stonewalling (445); To prevent someone from breathing by strangling them; In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation; die; "The old man finally kicked the bucket"; Motor/Transmission : Carburetor component that facilitates starting a cold engine by reducing the ratio of air to fuel going into the engine Chromoly : Manufacturing : A lightweight metal stronger than mild steel, often used for aftermarket frames, swingarms, and A-arms; The process of overprinting a small border on graphics to make them appear smaller; To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling; Technique of slightly reducing the size of an image to create a hairline trap or to outline Also called shrink and skinny; To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled; In negative preparation, the photographic means used to close in and reduce the thickness of the printing detail; also called Shrunk Negative It is also used to provide a printing overlap between a colored or tinted background and the display matter This is the opposite of a spread negative to top; To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun; An orifice or bean, with a small-diameter bore, installed at the wellhead in a line to restrict and control the rate of production; Another term for an inductor which is intended to filter or choke out signals; Failing to perform in a positive manner when the pressure was on the player To perform poorly in an important situation because of nerves To become over-anxious and miss badly; A trapping technique in which one color area is made slightly smaller, used in conjunction with another trapping technique called a "spread," in which another color area is made slightly larger to allow for misregistration on press; reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor"; {f} strangle, block the windpipe; be strangled; block, obstruct; fill full; A constriction at or near the muzzle of a shotgun barrel that affects shot dispersion; A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which effects the spread of the shot; check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger"; If a place is choked with things or people, it is full of them and they prevent movement in it. The village's roads are choked with traffic His pond has been choked by the fast-growing weed; a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"; breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"; constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor"; A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation; When a publication is printed with several interacting spot colours, gaps or colour shifts may appear between objects Choking closes this gap by slightly overlapping a dark colour over the boundary of a light colour; A photographic process that creates a thinner image of the subject without changing its position or shape The result is similar to removing a thin line from the subject's outline A choke allows the background color to slightly overlap the subject thereby preventing any unwanted white space between the two areas See also: bleed; registration; spread; trapping; To be checked, as if by choking; to stick; A device in a carburetor which shuts off airflow so that the engine runs rich This is necessary to start a cold engine

to choke

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tı çōk

Pronunciation

/tə ˈʧōk/ /tə ˈʧoʊk/

Etymology

[ t&, tu, 'tü ] (preposition.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English tO; akin to Old High German zuo to, Latin donec as long as, until.

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