ALL meanings of choke
choke
C c - verb with object choke to fill chock-full: The storeroom was choked with furniture. 1
- verb with object choke to seize (a log, felled tree, etc.) with a chain, cable, or the like, so as to facilitate removal. 1
- verb with object choke to enrich the fuel mixture of (an internal-combustion engine) by diminishing the air supply to the carburetor. 1
- verb with object choke Sports. to grip (a bat, racket, or the like) farther than usual from the end of the handle; shorten one's grip on (often followed by up). 1
- verb without object choke to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating: He choked on a piece of food. 1
- verb without object choke to become obstructed, clogged, or otherwise stopped: The words choked in her throat. 1
- noun choke the act or sound of choking. 1
- noun choke a mechanism by which the air supply to the carburetor of an internal-combustion engine can be diminished or stopped. 1
- noun choke Machinery. any mechanism that, by blocking a passage, regulates the flow of air, gas, etc. 1
- noun choke Electricity. choke coil. 1
- noun choke a narrowed part, as in a chokebore. 1
- noun choke the bristly upper portion of the receptacle of the artichoke. 1
- noun choke A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold. 0
- noun choke (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation. 0
- noun choke A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot. 0
- noun choke A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage. 0
- noun choke The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke. 0
- noun choke (electronics) choking coil. 0
- verb choke (Intransitive Verb) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way. 0
- verb choke (Transitive Verb) To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe. 0
- verb choke To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. 0
- verb choke To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. 0
- verb choke (Intransitive Verb) (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). 0
- verb choke (Intransitive Verb) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning. 0
- verb choke To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool. 0
- verb choke To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. 0
- verb choke To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. 0
- verb choke To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. 0