choke : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: choke	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for choke
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
choke n a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current Synonym(s): choke, choke coil, choking coil a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine v breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband" be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat" Synonym(s): choke, gag, fret wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" Synonym(s): choke, scrag constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing Synonym(s): choke, strangle struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" Synonym(s): gag, choke, strangle, suffocate fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience" check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger" become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" Synonym(s): clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul Antonym(s): unclog impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" Synonym(s): suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village" Synonym(s): suffocate, choke suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him" Synonym(s): suffocate, choke pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" Synonym(s): die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it Antonym(s): be born reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" Synonym(s): choke, throttle cause to retch or choke Synonym(s): gag, choke
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Choke \Choke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Choked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Choking}.] [OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. [be]ceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.] 1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. --Shak. 2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. --Addison. 3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. --Dryden. 4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. [bd]I was choked at this word.[b8] --Swift. 5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. {To choke off}, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Choke \Choke\, v. i. 1. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled. 2. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. The words choked in his throat. --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Choke \Choke\, n. 1. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation. 2. (Gun.) (a) The tied end of a cartridge. (b) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
choke v. 1. [common] To reject input, often ungracefully. "NULs make System V's `lpr(1)' choke." "I tried building an {EMACS} binary to use {X}, but `cpp(1)' choked on all those `#define's." See {barf}, {gag}, {vi}. 2. [MIT] More generally, to fail at any endeavor, but with some flair or bravado; the popular definition is "to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
choke 1. To reject input, often ungracefully. "NULs make System V's "lpr(1)" choke." "I tried building an {Emacs} binary to use {X}, but "cpp(1)" choked on all those "#define"s." See {barf}, {gag}. 2. [MIT] More generally, to fail at any endeavor, but with some flair or bravado; the popular definition is "to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory." [{Jargon File}]