noun Download 🔗Share A sudden, heavy impact. Examples : "The train hit the buffers with a great shock." physics sensation Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation. Examples : "Simple Sentence: "The simulations showed shocks forming in the air flow as the spacecraft entered the atmosphere, causing sudden changes in pressure and temperature." " physics math Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cause to be emotionally shocked, to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset. Examples : "The disaster shocked the world." emotion mind sensation Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To give an electric shock to. Examples : "The faulty wiring in the old lamp sometimes shocks you when you touch the metal base. " energy sensation electric technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter. Examples : "The car shocked the cyclist, sending him flying into a ditch. " action event disaster Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook. Examples : "After cutting the wheat, the farmer arranged the sheaves into shocks in the field to dry in the sun. " agriculture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. Examples : "The dockworker tallied the shipment: five shocks of flaxseed arrived from Riga this morning. " amount business number commerce Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass. Examples : "His head boasted a shock of sandy hair." nature plant body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog. Examples : "The elderly woman was often seen walking her two shocks in the park, tiny fluffy dogs trotting happily beside her. " animal Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook. Examples : "to shock rye" agriculture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading