shock
part of speech
noun (a shock, shocks; shock, uncountable in medicine); verb (shock, shocks, shocked, shocking)
meaning for a pupil
1) A shock is a sudden surprise, usually an unpleasant one, that upsets you. tree →
2) An electric shock is the painful jolt you feel when electricity goes through your body. tree →
3) In medicine, shock is a dangerous state after a serious injury or fright when the body is very weak. tree →
4) A shock can be a sudden strong bump or shake, like the shock of an earthquake. tree →
5) To shock someone means to surprise and upset them, or make them think something is very wrong. tree →
6) A shock of hair is a thick messy mass of it. tree →
sense in the lessons
Safety: electric shocks from sockets, plugs with wet hands, damaged cables, fallen power lines and pylons can kill; never poke things into sockets. In first aid, a person in shock may be pale, cold and sweaty; keep them warm and still, and call for help. In stories a shock is a twist that surprises the reader. Phrases: «in shock», «a big shock», «electric shock», «shock absorbers», «it came as a shock».
examples
- It was a shock when our teacher said she was leaving. tree →
- Never touch a socket with wet hands or you could get an electric shock. tree →
- The news shocked the whole town. tree →
- After the crash, the driver was in shock. tree →
- I got a small shock of static from the door handle. tree →
- The ending of the story was a real shock. tree →
- Bikes have shock absorbers to make the ride smoother. tree →
- He had a shock of red hair. tree →
- The shock was too much for him. tree →
note
Adjectives: «shocked» (how you feel) and «shocking» (what causes it). A little static shock from a carpet or trampoline is harmless; a shock from mains electricity is dangerous. «Shocked» does not always mean scared; it means very surprised and often upset.
In the corpora
- A parent may sound sharp for a second from shock; that is about the shock, not about the child being bad.
- Art can aim to be beautiful, but also to shock, ask questions, make people laugh or remember something.
- Japan has strict earthquake rules, and many buildings have flexible frames or shock-absorbing bases that let them move without breaking.
- A real electric shock makes muscles jump and can stop the heart; it does not just make hair stand up like in cartoons.
- "dǎ léi le" means "it's thundering"; in slang "léi rén" means shocking or cringe.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «shock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.