Choke vs Clog - What's the difference?
choke | clog |
To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way.
To prevent someone from breathing by strangling or filling the windpipe.
* Shakespeare
To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
* Dryden
(intransitive, 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).
To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
* Sir Walter Scott
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
* Jonathan Swift
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
(sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
A blockage.
(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
* 1987 , :
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
* Hudibras
* Tennyson
That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
* Burke
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
* Dryden
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
* Addison
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between choke and clog
is that choke is to be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe, for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way while clog is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up').As nouns the difference between choke and clog
is that choke is a control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold while clog is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.choke
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (dialectal)Verb
(chok)- With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
- to choke a cave passage with boulders and mud
- (Addison)
- Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.
- The words choked in his throat.
- I was choked at this word.
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* choker * choke collar * unchokeSee also
* strangle English ergative verbsclog
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia clog)- Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
- The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
- Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
- As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
- A clog of lead was round my feet.
- All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.
Derived terms
* clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogsVerb
- Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
- The roads are clogged up with traffic.
- The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
- The commodities are clogged with impositions.
- You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.