chock

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /tʃɒk/    美 /t͡ʃɑk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.
    — On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, Charles Lindbergh signaled chocks-away to those on the ground below him. A young mechanic named Douglas Corrigan nipped under the wing and pulled them away. Lindbergh gunned the plane and rolled it over the baked clay surface of the field, then gave it full throttle.
  2. An encounter. obsolete
  3. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch. transitive
    — Gondolas with drop or hopper doors not boarded over should have lading cleated and chocked so as to prevent shifting over doors.
  2. To encounter. obsolete
  3. To make a dull sound.
    — After some delay an apparently new chair was returned to the purchaser, and the incident seemed closed. Within forty-eight hours, however, it began to “chock” like the first chair, which it really was. The dealer had merely glued it up again and returned it.
  4. To fill up, as a cavity. intransitive,obsolete
    — When the bells ring, the wood-work thereof shaketh and grapeth (no defect, but perfect of structure), and exactly chocketh into the joynts again; so that it may pass for the lively embleme of the sincere Christian, who, though he hath motum trepidationis, of fear and trembling, stands firmly fixt on the basis of a true faith.
  5. To insert a line in a chock.
副词 adv.
  1. Entirely; quite. not-comparable
    — Tom Hickey, our good-humored, blundering cabin-boy, decorated since poor Schubert's death with the dignities of cook, is in that little dirty cot on the starboard side; the rest are bedded in rows, Mr. Brooks and myself chock aft.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Representing a dull sound.
    — This chair, which had been purchased by a certain man as a birthday present for his wife, developed an annoying “chock, chock” noise after it had been used a few days.

词形变化

chocks plural chocks present,singular,third-person chocking participle,present chocked participle,past chocked past chocks plural chocks present,singular,third-person chocking participle,present chocked participle,past chocked past chocks present,singular,third-person chocking participle,present chocked participle,past chocked past

词汇关系

衍生词
chockablock chockless chockstone dousing-chock chocks away unchock chock-a-block

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock.
词源 2
French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb).
词源 3
Onomatopoeic.
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