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Coke vs Clog - What's the difference?

coke | clog |

As nouns the difference between coke and clog

is that coke is (uncountable|informal) cola-based soft drink while clog is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

As a verb clog is

to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

coke

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from (etyl) colke .

Noun

(-)
  • (uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
  • * The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.
    • Derived terms
    *biocoke

    Verb

  • To produce coke from coal.
  • To turn into coke.

    • Etymology 2

    Originated circa 1908 in American English as a shortening of cocaine .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
    • See also
    * coca

    Etymology 3

    1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola'' and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, ''coca'' leaves and ''cola nut.

    Noun

    (en noun)
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    • Synonyms

    * (soft drink) see the list at (m)

    References

    * http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=coke ----

    clog

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia clog)
  • A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
    • Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
  • A blockage.
    • The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
  • (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
  • * 1987 , :
    • Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
  • A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
  • * Hudibras
    • As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
  • * Tennyson
    • A clog of lead was round my feet.
  • That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
  • * Burke
    • 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 clogs

    Verb

  • To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
    • Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
    The roads are clogged up with traffic.
  • To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
  • * Dryden
    • The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
  • To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • * Addison
    • The commodities are clogged with impositions.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.