throttle

Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈθɹɒtəl/, SAMPA: /"TrQt@l/
• Rhymes: -ɒtəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English *throtel, diminutive of throte (“throat”), equivalent to throat +‎ -le. Compare German Drossel (“throttle”). More at throat.

Noun

Wikipedia throttle (plural throttles)

1. 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.
2. The lever or pedal that controls this valve.

Translations

a valve

Czech: ventil (cs) m. Finnish: kuristusläppä, kaasuläppä French: accélérateur (fr) m.

Russian: дроссельная заслонка f. Serbo-Croatian: ventil (sh)

the lever or pedal that controls this valve

Finnish: kaasupoljin (fi), kaasu (fi) French: accélérateur (fr) m. German: Gaspedal (de) n.

Russian: педаль газа f. Serbo-Croatian: papučica gasa (sh), pedala gasa (sh) Spanish: acelerador (es) m.

Etymology 2

From Middle English throtlen (“to choke, strangle, suffocate”), from the noun (see above). Compare German erdrosseln (“to strangle, choke, throttle”).

Verb

throttle (third-person singular simple present throttles, present participle throttling, simple past and past participle throttled)

1. To cut back on the speed of an engine, a person or organization.
2. To strangle or choke someone.

Translations

to cut back speed

Czech: brzdit (cs) Finnish: kaasuttaa (fi)

French: limiter (fr) German: drosseln (de) Serbo-Croatian: oduzeti gas (sh)

to strangle someone

Czech: škrtit (cs) Dutch: wurgen (nl) Finnish: kuristaa (fi) French: étrangler (fr) German: würgen (de) Italian: soffocare (it)

Latin: offōcō (la) Portuguese: estrangular (pt) Scottish Gaelic: tachd (gd), mùch (gd) Serbo-Croatian: zagušiti (sh), zadaviti (sh) Spanish: estrangular (es) Swedish: strypa (sv)

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• Swedish: gasa, öka gasen (increase the speed/throttle up), strypa gasen, minska gasen (decrease the speed), undertrycka (of a person), begränsa (of an organization)