Jog

//d͡ʒɑɡ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
  2. 2
    Acronym of Jewish occupation government abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, offensive
  3. 3
    a slight push or shake wordnet
  4. 4
    A sudden push or nudge.

    "Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me."

  5. 5
    a slow pace of running wordnet
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  1. 6
    A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

    "This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs."

  2. 7
    a sharp change in direction wordnet
  3. 8
    In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
Verb
  1. 1
    To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt. transitive

    "jog one's elbow"

  2. 2
    stimulate to remember wordnet
  3. 3
    To shake, stir or rouse. transitive

    "I tried desperately to jog my memory."

  4. 4
    give a slight push to wordnet
  5. 5
    To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along. intransitive

    "Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way."

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  1. 6
    run at a moderately swift pace wordnet
  2. 7
    To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace. intransitive

    "I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday."

  3. 8
    run for exercise wordnet
  4. 9
    To cause to move at an energetic trot. transitive

    "to jog a horse"

  5. 10
    even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing wordnet
  6. 11
    To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface. transitive
  7. 12
    continue talking or writing in a desultory manner wordnet

Synonyms

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nudgetrottrudgeagitateambleandante

Antonyms

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walk

Example

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"I love to jog more than anything else in the world."

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”). Or, perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skukkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”), possibly related to *skakan (“to shake, stir”). More at shock.

Related phrases

jog brajog onjog someone's memorylite runrun slowlyslow runwalking fast

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