(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 control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
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.
verb
(golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
(intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
(intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
(intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
(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).
(transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
(transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
(transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
(transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
(transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
(transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
(transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
(transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
chore
chore
noun
(obsolete) A choir or chorus.
A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
verb
(Scotland, dialect) To steal.
(US, dated) To do chores.
chose
chose
noun
(law) A thing; personal property.
verb
(colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of choose
simple past tense of choose
simple past tense of chuse
cohen
cohen
noun
A Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses.
cohue
cothe
cothe
noun
Alternative form of coath
echos
elcho
enoch
enoch
noun
(dialect, Yorkshire) an iron sledgehammer
epoch
epoch
noun
(chronology, astronomy, computing) A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
(geology) A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
(machine learning) One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
verb
(sciences, transitive) To divide (data) into segments by time period.
hecco
helco
jecho
loche
loche
noun
Alternative form of loach (“kind of fish”)
moche
moche
noun
An imported package of spun silk.
necho
ocher
ocher
noun
Alternative spelling of ochre
ochre
ochre
adj
(archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
Having a yellow-orange colour.
noun
(molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
(obsolete) Alternative form of okra.
(slang) Money, especially gold.
A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
verb
To cover or tint with ochre.
poche
roche
roche
noun
(UK, regional) One of various types of rock or geological strata.