Definitions
American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To move by shoving, bumping, or jerking; jar: a rough wagon ride that jogged the passengers.
- v. To give a push or shake to; nudge: jogged her dozing companion with her elbow.
- v. To rouse or stimulate as if by nudging: an old photo that might jog your memory.
- v. To cause (a horse) to move at a leisurely pace.
- v. To move with a jolting rhythm: The pack jogged against his back as he ran.
- v. To run or ride at a steady slow trot: jogged out to their positions on the playing field.
- v. Sports To run in such a way for sport or exercise.
- v. To go or travel at a slow or leisurely pace: The old car jogged along until it reached the hill.
- v. To proceed in a leisurely manner: "while his life was thus jogging easily alongā ( Duff Cooper).
- n. A slight push or shake; a nudge.
- n. A jogging movement or rhythm.
- n. A slow steady trot.
- n. A protruding or receding part in a surface or line.
- n. An abrupt change in direction: a jog in the road.
- v. To turn sharply; veer: Here the boundary jogs south.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To pierce; thrust, See jag.
- To touch, push, or shake slightly or gently; nudge; move by pushing.
- Hence To stimulate gently; stir up by a hint or reminder: as, to jog a person's memory.
- To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; move idly, heavily, or slowly: generally followed by on or along.
- n. A slight push or shake; a nudge; especially, a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention.
- n. Irregularity of motion; a jolting motion; a jolt or shake.
- n. In mech., a square notch; a right-angled recess or step. See cut under joint (fig. b).
- n. Any notch or recess in a line; a small depression in a surface; an irregularity of line or surface.
- n. In mining, a short post or piece of timber placed between two others to keep them apart; a studdle.
Wiktionary
- n. A form of exercise, slower than a run
- v. To move or shake with a push or jerk; to jolt.
- v. To push slightly.
- v. To shake, stir or rouse.
- v. To have a jog (UK); to take a jog (US).
- v. To straighten stacks of paper by lighting tapping against a flat surface.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn.
- v. To suggest to; to notify; to remind; to call the attention of.
- v. To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i.
- v. To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; -- usually with
on , sometimes withover . - v. To run at less than maximum speed; to move on foot at a pace between a walk and a run; to run at a moderate pace so as to be able to continue for some time; -- performed by people, mostly for exercise.
- n. A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt.
- n. A rub; a slight stop; an obstruction; hence, an irregularity in motion of from; a hitch; a break in the direction of a line or the surface of a plane.
- n. A liesurely running pace. See jog{2}, v. i.
WordNet 3.0
- v. stimulate to remember
- n. a sharp change in direction
- v. continue talking or writing in a desultory manner
- v. even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
- v. run for exercise
- v. run at a moderately swift pace
- n. a slow pace of running
- n. a slight push or shake
- v. give a slight push to
Etymologies
- Perhaps alteration of Middle English shoggen, to shake, move with a jerk, perhaps alteration of shokken, to move rapidly, from Middle Low German schocken, to shake.Variant of jag1.
Examples
“Calling it a slow walk or a light jog is probably more accurate, no matter what I think.”
“Today, after taking Carolyn to the playground while Gini and Kat had ritual at the Labyrinth, I realized that I could jog from the park to the coffee shop of doom without much trouble.”
“Shanahan said everyone else, including tight end Chris Cooley, was able to practice Friday in what Shanahan calls a jog-through session.”
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“A blog should not rhyme with jog, that is too slow.”
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“Before or after the jog was the question, and the answer is, I don't know.”
“Both readers and writers get into a certain 'swing' which turns to monotony and sing-song in reading and to excessive uniformity of sentence length and structure in writing -- what is called a jog-trot style.”
“Then they settled down to what those of our age and country and occupation know as a hound-jog, which is seven miles an hour.”
“Some were sent out for a hack, as Motion, an Englishman, calls a jog through the wooded trails and open fields; others went to the turf course.”
“The jog was a pretty good sign that Manuel didn't want to take Cain out, just wanted to check on him.”
“I thought I saw it somewhere referred to as a jog wheel.”
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