throttle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English *throtel, diminutive of throte (“throat”), equivalent to throat + -le. Compare German Drossel (“throttle”). More at throat.
Base: throat
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: throttles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: throttles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: throttling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: throttled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: throttled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
pos: noun
gloss: The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
pos: noun
examples: To my unpractised eye, the undulations in the track were quite imperceptible, but the engineer's hand on the throttle was never still.
gloss: The windpipe or trachea.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Then up got Peg, and round the house gan scuttle, / In search of goods her customer to nail, / Until the Sultaun strain'd his princely throttle, / And hollow'd,—"Ma'am, that is not what I ail.["]
Nor took a punch nor given a swing, / But just soaked deady round the ring / Until their brains and bloods were foul / Enough to make their throttles howl, […]
From the cabin came that horrible song: "Here's to the feet wot have walked the plank. ⁠Yo ho! for the dead man's throttle."
gloss: To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To strangle or choke someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.
gloss: To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent in their fears.
Derived words: at full throttle
autothrottle
full throttle
full-throttle
throttle body
throttle chop
throttlehold
throttle jockey
throttleless
throttleman
throttle steering
throttle valve
unthrottle
throttleable
throttle down
throttler
throttle up
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: клапан
roman: klapan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 風門 /风门
roman: fēngmén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 節流閥 /节流阀
roman: jiéliúfá
lang: Czech
word: ventil
lang: Finnish
word: kuristusläppä
lang: Finnish
word: kaasuläppä
lang: French
word: accélérateur
lang: German
word: Drossel
lang: Hebrew
word: מַשְׁנֵק
lang: Hebrew
word: מַצְעֶֽרֶת
lang: Hungarian
word: szelep
lang: Hungarian
word: fojtószelep
lang: Irish
word: scóig
lang: Italian
word: acceleratore
lang: Italian
word: farfalla
lang: Italian
word: valvola a farfalla
lang: Japanese
word: スロットル
roman: surottoru
lang: Māori
word: katirere
lang: Māori
word: takirere
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: spjeld
lang: Portuguese
word: válvula reguladora
lang: Russian
word: дро́ссель
roman: drósselʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вентил
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ventil
lang: Spanish
word: acelerador
lang: Swedish
word: strypventil
lang: Swedish
word: spjäll
lang: Tagalog
word: panubo
lang: Turkish
word: gaz