Real Dictionary

choke
If a place is choked with things or people, it is full of them and they prevent movement in it.
The choke in a car, truck, or other vehicle is a device that reduces the amount of air going into the engine and makes it easier to start.
verb: To choke someone means to squeeze their neck until they are dead.
verb: When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.

choke in American English
to be suffocated; have difficulty in breathing
to prevent from breathing by blocking the windpipe or squeezing the throat of; strangle; suffocate; smother; stifle
intransitive verb: to suffer from or as from strangling or suffocating
transitive verb: to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle

choke in Automotive Engineering
noun: The choke in a vehicle is a device that reduces the amount of air going into the engine and makes it easier to start the engine or run it in cold weather.

choke in British English
noun: the act or sound of choking
verb: to hinder or stop the breathing of (a person or animal), esp by constricting the windpipe or by asphyxiation

choke in Electrical Engineering
noun: A choke is a coil of low resistance and high inductance that is used in electrical circuits to pass low frequency or direct currents while stopping the higher frequency alternating currents.

choke in Mechanical Engineering
noun: A choke is a device for reducing the flow of a fluid in a pipe or tube.

choke in the Oil and Gas Industry
noun: A choke is a device which controls the flow rate of a fluid in a pipe.