throttle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim The lever or pedal that controls this valve.

   “To my unpractised eye, the undulations in the track were quite imperceptible, but the engineer's hand on the throttle was never still.”

3. isim The windpipe or trachea.

   “Then up got Peg, and round the house gan scuttle, / In search of goods her customer to nail, / Until the Sultaun strain'd his princely throttle, / And hollow'd,—"Ma'am, that is not what I ail.["]”

4. fiil To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
5. fiil To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
6. fiil To strangle or choke someone.

   “Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.”

7. fiil To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
8. fiil To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
9. fiil To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

   “I have seen them shiver and look pale, Make periods in the midst of sentences, Throttle their practised accent in their fears.”