Shockname

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  A surname.

shocknoun詞源 1/ʃɒk/

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  A sudden, heavy impact.

  • The train hit the buffers with a great shock.
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  A sudden, heavy impact.

  • My mother's news was a shock I still haven't recovered from.
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  human-sciencespsychologysciencesA sudden, heavy impact.

  • Carl had a shock at what he found.
  • A tremendous shock arises when a secret is discovered.
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  A sudden, heavy impact.

  • The surprising blast of cold water on my face was a tremendous shock.
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  medicinesciencesA sudden, heavy impact.

  • We gave him a couple shocks, but the patient passed away anywway.
  • But as was the case with pacemakers, external defibrillators were unwieldy, and the shocks they delivered—in the rare cases when patients were still conscious—were painful.
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  medicineneurologyneuroscienceA sudden, heavy impact.

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  human-sciencespsychologysciencesA sudden, heavy impact.

  • Fans were in shock in the days following the singer's death.
  • The shock she felt kept her in a daze the rest of the day.
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  medicinesciencesA sudden, heavy impact.

  • Call an ambulance, he's in shock!

shockadj詞源 1/ʃɒk/

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  Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.

  • His shock announcement rocked the tennis world.

shockverb詞源 1/ʃɒk/

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  To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel greatly surprised or upset.

  • The disaster shocked the world.
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  To strike with disgust, to offend, scandalize.

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  To give an electric shock to.

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  To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.

  • Ammonium nitrate can detonate if severely shocked.
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  obsoleteTo meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.

  • They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together.
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  cookingfoodlifestyleTo cook something very briefly in a hot liquid, then immediately submerge it in ice water to stop the cooking process.

  • Can you shock the spinach over there?
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  To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.

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  geographygeologynatural-sciencesTo deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.

  • It takes more than two gigapascals (two billion pascals) of pressure to shock quartz in this manner (for comparison, the atmosphere at sea level exerts a little over 100,000 pascals of pressure).

shocknoun詞源 2/ʃɒk/

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  An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.

  • Cause it on shocks to be by and by set.
  • Behind the Master walks, builds up the Shocks.
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  datedbusinesscommerceA lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

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  A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.

  • His head boasted a shock of sandy hair.
  • Every now and then I’m startled at how good-looking John is, but he glared at me from under the shock of hair that fell across his brow and scared me a little.
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  obsoleteA small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.

  • When I read of witty persons, I could not figure them but like the little shock. (translating the German Spitz)

shockverb詞源 2/ʃɒk/

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

  • to shock rye