different between throttle vs throttling

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????t?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???at?l/
• Rhymes: -?t?l

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.

   Synonyms: accelerator, gas pedal, gas

3. (anatomy, archaic) The windpipe or trachea.
   • 1817, Walter Scott, The Search After Happiness, or, The Quest of Sultaun Solimaun

     She doucely span her flax and milk'd her
     Until the Sultaun strain'd his princely throttle

Translations

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. (transitive) To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
2. (transitive) To strangle or choke someone.
3. (intransitive) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
4. (intransitive) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
5. (transitive) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

Derived terms

• throttle down

Translations

English

Verb

throttling

1. present participle of throttle

Noun

throttling (countable and uncountable, plural throttlings)

1. The temporary reduction of bandwidth through a communications network by controlling the package flow rate, in order to minimise congestion.
2. Reduction in amount of chemical or other fluid in process such as a heating or ventilation system.
3. Reduction in flow rate between two points caused by an intermediate restriction, device, structure or configuration.