throttle

1. 1.

   a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine

   Synonymsacceleratorthrottle valve

   Broadervalve

   Part offuel system
2. 2.

   a pedal that controls the throttle valve

   “he stepped on the gas”

   Synonymsacceleratoraccelerator pedalgas pedalgasgun

   Broaderpedal

   Part ofcarairplane

Other forms of throttle

plural

throttles·

past tense

throttled·

present participle

throttling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about throttle

What does throttle mean?

throttle means "place limits on (extent or amount or access)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in throttle?

throttle has 2 syllables: throt-tle. The stress falls on "throt". In IPA it is /ˈθɹɑtəl/.

What is another word for throttle?

Close synonyms include restrict, trammel, limit, bound, confine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is throttle a common word?

throttle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.