Cigarette vs Choke - What's the difference?
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Tobacco, marijuana, or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
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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.
As nouns the difference between cigarette and choke
is that cigarette is tobacco, marijuana, or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked while choke is a control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.As a verb 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.cigarette
English
Alternative forms
* cigaretNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* cancerette * cancer stick * cig * ciggy * rig (Canada) * stick (Canada) * coffin nail * darb, durry (Sydney, Australia) * dart, durben, smoke, rolly (Australia) * death stick * fag (UK) * gaf (butcher’s slang) * neen (Sydney Australian larrikins) * * tab * smoke (US) * square (US-slang) *zig-zag (US-slang) * See alsoSee also
* cigar * cigarillo * nonmailable * smoke ----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.