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Chock or Chocks may refer to: Devices for preventing movement * Wheel chock, tool to prevent accidental movement * Chock (climbing), anchor * Chock, component of a sailing block Other uses * Chock (surname) * ''Chock'' (TV series), a Swedish horror television series * Chock, a Swedish-language edition of Chill * Chocks, a children's multivitamin product made by Miles Laboratories See also * Choc (other) * Chok (other) * "''Chocky''", short story * Chock full o'Nuts Chock full o'Nuts is an American brand of coffee that originated from a chain of New York City coffee shops. Its unusual name derives from the 18 nut shops that founder William Black (c. 1902 – 1983) established under that banner in the city ..., coffee brand * Railway wheel stop {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheel Chock
Wheel chocks (or chocks) are wedges of sturdy material placed closely against a vehicle's wheels to prevent accidental movement. Chocks are placed for safety in addition to setting the brakes. The bottom surface is sometimes coated in rubber to enhance grip with the ground. For ease of removal, a rope may be tied to the chock or a set of two chocks. One edge of the wedge has a concave profile to contour to the wheel and increase the force necessary to overrun the chock. Most commonly, chocks are seen on aircraft and train cars. Automobiles usually have parking brakes on the rear wheels. If the rear axle is jacked off the ground with only the parking brake set, the vehicle may roll on the front wheels and fall. Chocking the front wheels prevents this mishap. Motorcycle and bicycle chocks are bifurcated and fit around the wheel, supporting the bike and preventing its movement. The mining industry uses wheel chocks to protect lubrication trucks and heavy maintenance vehicles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chock (climbing)
In rock climbing, a nut (or ''chock'' or ''chockstone'') is a metal wedge threaded on a wire that climbers use for protection by wedging it into a crack in the rock. Quickdraws are clipped to the nut wire by the ascending climber and the rope threads through the quickdraw. Nuts come in a variety of sizes and styles, and several different brands are made by competing manufacturers. Most nuts are made of aluminum. Larger nuts may be threaded on Dyneema cord instead of wire, but this has become unusual. The very smallest nuts are known as ''micronuts'' and may be made of brass or other metal, and typically have their wires soldered into them, instead of looped through drilled holes. They are mostly used in aid climbing, and their value as protection, arresting a climber's fall, is marginal because of both their low breaking strength and their tiny surface area (the HB 0 measures about 4 x 7 x 2.5 mm) in contact with the rock, though this can be offset if several are placed at a time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Block (sailing)
In sailing, a block is a single or multiple pulley. One or a number of ''sheaves'' are enclosed in an assembly between ''cheeks'' or ''chocks''. In use, a block is fixed to the end of a line, to a spar (sailing), spar, or to a surface. A line (rope) is ''reeved'' through the sheaves, and maybe through one or more matching blocks at some far end, to make up a Block and tackle, tackle. The ''purchase'' of a tackle refers to its mechanical advantage. In general the more sheaves in the blocks that make up a tackle, the higher its mechanical advantage. The matter is slightly complicated by the fact that every tackle has a ''working end'' where the final run of rope leaves the last sheave. More mechanical advantage can be obtained if this end is attached to the moving load rather than the fixed end of the tackle. There are various types of blocks that are used in sailing. Some blocks are used to increase mechanical advantage and others are used simply to change the direction of a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chock (surname)
Chock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Eric Chock, Hawaiian poet, scholar and editor * Madison Chock (born 1992), American dancer * Naomi Takemoto-Chock Naomi Takemoto-Chock is a Hawaiian psychologist, known for her contributions to the Big five personality traits. Her article "Factors" has been* widely cited in the literature. Bibliography * References People from Hawaii Living peopl ... ( fl. 1980s), American psychologist See also * Chock (other) {{surname, Chock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chock (TV Series)
''Chock'' is a Swedish horror television series that was broadcast in 1997. It was made in the style of horror shows like ''Tales from the Crypt''. Each episode was presented by the Swedish cult actor and horror host Ernst-Hugo Järegård. Episodes were directed by Mikael Håfström, Daniel Bergman and Ulf Malmros. Episodes 1. The Angel of Death All the patients at a certain room in a hospital die from what appear to be natural causes. 2. Meat A psychopathic man becomes obsessed with watching a wealthy and obese woman eat. Meanwhile, the woman's husband is planning on murdering her. The man's old mother is equally obese and unable to move because of her age. She also seems unable to speak. The man secretly films the woman eating with a home camera, saving a large number of tapes of her eating different meals. One night, the husband is going out to a meeting and puts poison into the woman's juice. After he leaves, the man enters the house and kills the woman. In the episode's g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chill (role-playing Game)
''Chill'' is an investigative and modern horror role-playing game originally published by Pacesetter Ltd in 1984 that captures the feel of 20th-century horror films. Setting ''Chill'' is inspired by, and attempts to capture the feel of, 20th-century horror films, where usual foes are vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghosts, and ghouls. Players take on the role of envoys, members of a secret organization known as S.A.V.E. (''Societas Argenti Viae Eternitata'', or, The Eternal Society of the Silver Way) that tracks down and eliminates evil in the world. History The game was introduced by Pacesetter Ltd in 1984. The following year, Target Games released a Swedish version under the name ''Chock'' (Swedish for "shock" or "fright"), and in 1985, Schmidt Spiele released a French version. Pacesetter also launched the board game '' Black Morn Manor'', also translated into French (''Le Manoir des Ténèbres'') by Schmidt Spiele. Pacesetter ceased operations in 1986, bringing the publicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Laboratories
Miles Laboratories was founded as the Dr. Miles Medical Company in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1884 by Dr. Franklin Lawrence Miles, a specialist in the treatment of eye and ear disorders, with an interest in the connection of the nervous system to overall health. The company is known for inventing products such as Alka-Selzer and One-A-Day vitamins. Miles operated as an independent firm from 1884 until 1979 and as a wholly owned subsidiary of Bayer AG from 1979 until 1995. At the company's peak in the 1960s and 1970s, it employed 3,300 people and produced more than two dozen products. In 1995, it was consolidated into the parent corporation. History By 1890, the sales success of his patent medicine tonic, "Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine," in treating "nervous" ailments (including "nervousness or nervous exhaustion, sleeplessness, hysteria, headache, neuralgia, backache, pain, epilepsy, spasms, fits, and St. Vitus' dance") led him to develop a mail order medicine business. Miles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choc (other) , a community of people
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Choc may refer to: * Chocolate * ''Choc'' (magazine), a French photography magazine * Choc (typeface), a typeface by Roger Excoffon * Choc Bay, in Gros Islet Quarter, Saint Lucia * Choč Mountains, in north-central Slovakia * Choc River, in the Soufrière Quarter, Saint Lucia * '' Le choc'' (''The Shock''), a 1982 French film People * Ramiro Choc, Guatemalan Mayan leader * Anthony Mundine (born 1975), Australian boxer nicknamed Choc * Choc Sanders (1900–1972), American football player, coach, and teacher See also * CHOC (other) * Choctaw The Choctaw (in the Choctaw language, Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Their Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choctaw people are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chok (other)
CHOK (1070 AM) is a Canadian radio station, licensed to Sarnia, Ontario and owned by Blackburn Radio. The station broadcasts a country format with local news, talk and sports. CHOK also has an FM translator, CHOK-1-FM, broadcasting at 103.9 MHz. The station is the radio home of the Toronto Blue Jays, as well as the Sarnia Sting. History The station was launched on July 26, 1946, by Sarnia Broadcasting. In 1947, Sarnia Broadcasting Co. was granted a licence to operate an FM station at 97.5 MHz (as CHOK-FM), which left the air sometime between 1948 and 1953 after being damaged from the Sarnia tornado. That station was never rebuilt. It was acquired by IWC Communications, a corporate precursor of Standard Broadcasting, in 1970, and went through a variety of sales to local owners until being acquired by its current owner, Blackburn Radio, in 1998. Blackburn also owns both of the city's other commercial radio stations, CFGX-FM and CHKS-FM. CHOK-1-FM In April 2007, CHOK a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chocky
''Chocky'' is a science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham. It was first published as a novelette in the March 1963 issue of ''Amazing Stories'' and later developed into a novel in 1968, published by Michael Joseph. The BBC produced a radio adaption by John Tydeman in 1967. In 1984 a children's television drama based on the novel was shown on ITV in the United Kingdom. Plot summary David Gore becomes concerned that his twelve-year-old son, Matthew, is too old to have an imaginary friend. His concerns deepen as Matthew becomes increasingly distressed and blames it on arguments with this unseen companion, whom he calls "Chocky". As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the friend is far from imaginary, but is an alien consciousness communicating with Matthew's mind; which is of interest to shadowy government forces. "Chocky" reveals that it is a scout sent from its home planet (where there is only one sex) in search of new planets to colonise, or to provide subtl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chock Full O'Nuts
Chock full o'Nuts is an American brand of coffee that originated from a chain of New York City coffee shops. Its unusual name derives from the 18 nut shops that founder William Black (c. 1902 – 1983) established under that banner in the city beginning in 1926. When the Great Depression struck, he converted them to lunch counters, serving a cup of coffee and a sandwich for five cents. In time, the brand grew popular, being introduced to the consumer market through grocery stores starting in 1953. Today, it is owned by coffee giant Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group. History The chain was founded by William Black(né Schwartz), who sold nuts in Times Square to theater-goers. In 1926, he opened a store on Broadway and 43rd Street, eventually adding 17 more. When the Depression settled in, New Yorkers could no longer afford the luxury of shelled nuts, so Black converted his shops into lunch counters, selling coffee and sandwiches. Their signature "nutted cheese" sandwich, made of cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
