What's the difference between checked and chocked?
Checked
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Check
Example Sentences:
(1) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(2) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(3) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
(4) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
(5) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(6) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
(7) The system of automated diagnosis makes it possible to significantly increase the quality and efficacy of wide-scale prophylactic check-ups of the population.
(8) I'll admit to not having realised that more than £100bn would be committed to Trident – I half-remembered reading that it would cost £20bn, so went online, only to discover that the higher figure checks out .
(9) After a four-week period on a placebo, hypertensive smokers were treated with slow-release nicardipine 40 mg twice daily for six months and were checked at the end of the placebo period, after the first dose of nicardipine and at the end of six months of therapy.
(10) Adverse events and life status were checked at regular intervals.
(11) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(12) Other details showed the wrong patient undergoing a heart procedure, and the wrong patient given an invasive colonoscopy to check their bowel.
(13) Also remember that each time you apply for a loan your credit record is checked, which will leave a footprint of the search.
(14) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
(15) Once outside the body they can be purified, expanded in culture, and checked via genome sequencing to ensure the editing has been successful.
(16) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
(17) No sick or dead monkeys were found in all the forests checked around Entebbe area during the epizootic.
(18) I tweet, check Facebook, chat with friends, keep in touch with colleagues, check in using Foursquare, use it to check work emails from home and organise notes using Evernote.
(19) At the centre of the Zyed and Bouna deaths is the continuing issue of police controls, stop and searches and identity checks.
(20) And all senior management will be required to drive Toyota vehicles and check where the problems lie.
Chocked
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Chock
Example Sentences:
(1) He channelled his new-found creative freedom into making club-focused hip-hop, chock-full of tongue-twisting put-downs that would give Minaj a run for her Benjamins.
(2) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(3) "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes.
(4) "I got in line around 11pm, and beyond the line the plaza was chock full with people," said Huang Xiantong, 26, outside the store.
(5) The term chocking is both inaccurate and inappropriate in describing the cause of death in motor neurone disease and its use should be abandoned.
(6) The current shadow cabinet is full of people who are chock full of good ideas but unable to get them across.
(7) "It's not rocket science to know that that part of London would at least be chock-a-block with displaced traffic."
(8) The activation of the ATP,Mg-dependent protein phosphatase [Fc.M] has been shown to involve a transient phosphorylation of the modulator subunit (M) and consequent isomerization of the catalytic subunit (Fc) into its active conformation (Jurgensen, S., Shacter, E., Huang, C. Y., Chock, P. B., Yang, S. -D., Vandenheede, J. R., and Merlevede, W. (1984) J. Biol.
(9) Rapid incorporation of exogenous arachidonic acid into phospholipid has been detected in conjunction with eicosanoid synthesis by purified mast cell granules [Chock, S. P. & Schmauder-Chock, E. A.
(10) (Tokyo) 91, 1809-1812; Sellers, J. R., Chock, P. B., and Adelstein, R. S. (1983) J. Biol.
(11) So now we’re dealing with miles of roads around every supermarket being chock-a-block with sheepish, over-zealous consumers parking up to return the goods that were never needed, like someone making themselves sick on the morning of a hangover.
(12) But it is chock full of good people who are very diverse.
(13) 143-154, Elsevier Science publisher) and limited proteolysis of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase with yeast proteinase B (Pohlig, G., Schäfer, W., v. Herrath, M. and Holzer, H. (1984) in "Current topics in cellular regulation" (S. Shaltiel and P. Boon Chock, eds.)
(14) If excellence is an ageing network of broken roads chock-full of luxury cars and overladen lorries constantly harassed by motorbikes and the unruly drivers of Danfo buses, then I suggest we aspire to something else.
(15) But in a division chock full of imperfect champions, the wisest tack may be to expect the unexpected.
(16) Over the next three years, 2.4 acres of this site will be transformed into a million square feet of an 11-storey headquarters for the internet giant Google , no doubt chock-a-block with colourful Big Brother -house-style sofas and surreal chill-out zones that mark out its other 70 offices in 40 countries.
(17) Outside of a relatively small percentage of high-quality sites, most of the web is chock full of pop-up ads and other interruptive come-ons.
(18) Moreover, plasma endothelin concentration is elevated during acute myocardial infarction, in acute renal failure, in patients with hypertension, and during cardiogenic chock.
(19) Thylakoids altered by osmotic chock are sensitized to agglutination.
(20) Inside the partly open-air space, chock full of football scarves and decades of photos, some of the city's friendliest waiters navigate the fun with grace and efficiency.