Throttle

Quick meaning: Throttle is a noun meaning The lever or pedal that controls this valve.

Meaning

The lever or pedal that controls this valve.

More Meanings

1. (anatomy, archaic) The windpipe or trachea.
2. (transitive) To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
3. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
4. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
5. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
6. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

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."

I have seen them shiver and look pale, Make periods in the midst of sentences, Throttle their practised accent in their fears.

To my unpractised eye, the undulations in the track were quite imperceptible, but the engineer's hand on the throttle was never still.

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, […]

Word Forms

• throttles
• throttling
• throttled

Synonyms for throttle

Depending on context, synonyms include accelerator, gas, restrain, limit, choke, confine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gun, gas, trammel, confine, accelerator, limit.

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