Shock vs. Stook — What's the Difference?

A violent collision, impact, or explosion, or the force or movement resulting from this

A stook /stʊk/, also referred to as a shock or stack, is an arrangement of sheaves of cut grain-stalks placed so as to keep the grain-heads off the ground while still in the field and prior to collection for threshing. Stooked grain sheaves are typically wheat, barley and oats.

Something that suddenly causes emotional distress

A pile or bundle, especially of straw.

A sudden feeling of distress

(specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, largely obsolete since the advent of combine harvesters and powered grain driers (mid 20th century).

A massive, acute physiological reaction usually to physical trauma, infection, or allergy, characterized by a marked loss of blood pressure, resulting in a diminished blood flow to body tissues and a rapid heart rate.

To make stooks.

The sensation and muscular spasm caused by an electric current passing through the body or a body part.

A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.

A sudden economic disturbance, such as a rise in the price of a commodity.

To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.

A shock absorber.

A number of sheaves of grain stacked upright in a field for drying.

A thick heavy mass

To surprise and disturb greatly

To induce a state of physical shock in (an animal or person).

To subject (an animal or person) to an electric shock.

To administer electric current to (a patient) to treat cardiac arrest or life-threatening arrhythmias.

To administer electroconvulsive therapy to (a patient).

To come into contact violently, as in battle; collide.

To gather (grain) into shocks.

A sudden, heavy impact.

(figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.

(psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.

(medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.

(psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance.

(medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.

(physics) A shock wave.

A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).

(mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.

A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.

An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.

A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

(by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.

(obsolete) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.

Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking.

(transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset.

(transitive) To give an electric shock to.

(transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.

To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.

(transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.

(transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.

A lot consisting of sixty pieces; - a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.

A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.

A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.

The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.

A dog with long hair or shag; - called also shockdog.

A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

To be occupied with making shocks.

To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.

To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.

To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system.

To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally;

The violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat;

A reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body;

(pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor;

An instance of agitation of the earth's crust;

An unpleasant or disappointing surprise;

A pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field;

A bushy thick mass (especially hair);

A mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses;

Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off;

Strike with disgust or revulsion;

Strike with horror or terror;

Collide violently

Collect or gather into shocks;

Subject to electrical shocks

Inflict a trauma upon