Chock vs. Shock

Chocknoun

Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.

Chocknoun

(nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.

Chocknoun

(obsolete) An encounter.

Chockverb

(transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.

Chockverb

To fill up, as a cavity.

Chockverb

(nautical) To insert a line in a chock.

Chockverb

(obsolete) To encounter.

Chockverb

To make a dull sound.

Chockadverb

(nautical) Entirely; quite.

Chockverb

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

Chockverb

To fill up, as a cavity.

Chockverb

To encounter.

Chocknoun

A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.

Chocknoun

A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

Chocknoun

An encounter.

Chockadverb

Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

Chocknoun

a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

Chockverb

secure with chocks

Chockverb

support on chocks;

Chockadverb

as completely as possible;

Shocknoun

Sudden, heavy impact.

Shocknoun

(figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.

Shocknoun

Electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.

Shocknoun

Circulatory shock, a life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.

Shocknoun

A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance

Shocknoun

(mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.

Shocknoun

An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.

Shocknoun

A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

Shocknoun

(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass)

Shocknoun

A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.

Shockverb

To cause to be emotionally shocked.

Shockverb

To give an electric shock.

Shockverb

To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

Shockverb

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

Shocknoun

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.

Shocknoun

A lot consisting of sixty pieces; - a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

Shocknoun

A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.

Shocknoun

A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.

Shocknoun

A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.

Shocknoun

The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.

Shocknoun

A dog with long hair or shag; - called also shockdog.

Shocknoun

A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

Shockverb

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

Shockverb

To be occupied with making shocks.

Shockverb

To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.

Shockverb

To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.

Shockverb

To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system.

Shockverb

To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

Shockadjective

Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

Shocknoun

the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally;

Shocknoun

the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat;

Shocknoun

a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body;

Shocknoun

(pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor;

Shocknoun

an instance of agitation of the earth's crust;

Shocknoun

an unpleasant or disappointing surprise;

Shocknoun

a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field;

Shocknoun

a bushy thick mass (especially hair);

Shocknoun

a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses;

Shockverb

surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off;

Shockverb

strike with disgust or revulsion;

Shockverb

strike with horror or terror;

Shockverb

collide violently

Shockverb

collect or gather into shocks;

Shockverb

subject to electrical shocks

Shockverb

inflict a trauma upon