choke

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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).

   “Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish.”

2. fiil To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.

   “The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.”

3. fiil To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.

   “to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud”

4. fiil 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).

   “Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.”

5. fiil To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.

   “He has a lot of talent, but he tends to choke under pressure.”

6. fiil To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.

   “A brief tryout will demonstrate that the modified grip does indeed make it difficult to “choke” the pencil or apply excessive pressure to the paper.”

7. fiil To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.

   “Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.”

8. fiil To be checked or stopped, as if by choking

   “[…] the words choked in his throat.”

9. fiil To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.

   “A hundred times fain he would have spoke, but still his rising Passion choak’d his Words;”

10. fiil To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.

    “Grobstock began to choke with chagrin.”

11. fiil To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.

    “[…] I am very sensible how much the Gentlemen of Wit and Pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choqued at the Sight of so many daggled-tail Parsons, who happen to fall in their Way, and offend their Eyes […]”

12. fiil To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).

    “‘There is the padre!’ Kim choked as bare-headed Father Victor sailed down upon them from the veranda.”

13. fiil To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.

    “The engine caught, spluttered, and roared as Tom choked the car delicately.”

14. fiil To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
15. fiil To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
16. isim A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
17. isim In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
18. isim A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
19. isim A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
20. isim A choking coil.
21. isim A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
22. isim The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.

    “Once all the leaves are gone, a hairy little island will remain in the middle of the artichoke. This is the “choke.” A gentleman uses his knife and fork to slice it away, uncovering the delicious artichoke “heart” underneath.”