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American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To move by shoving, bumping, or jerking; jar: a rough wagon ride that jogged the passengers.
  2. v. To give a push or shake to; nudge: jogged her dozing companion with her elbow.
  3. v. To rouse or stimulate as if by nudging: an old photo that might jog your memory.
  4. v. To cause (a horse) to move at a leisurely pace.
  5. v. To move with a jolting rhythm: The pack jogged against his back as he ran.
  6. v. To run or ride at a steady slow trot: jogged out to their positions on the playing field.
  7. v. Sports To run in such a way for sport or exercise.
  8. v. To go or travel at a slow or leisurely pace: The old car jogged along until it reached the hill.
  9. v. To proceed in a leisurely manner: "while his life was thus jogging easily alongā€ ( Duff Cooper).
  10. n. A slight push or shake; a nudge.
  11. n. A jogging movement or rhythm.
  12. n. A slow steady trot.
  13. n. A protruding or receding part in a surface or line.
  14. n. An abrupt change in direction: a jog in the road.
  15. v. To turn sharply; veer: Here the boundary jogs south.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pierce; thrust, See jag.
  2. To touch, push, or shake slightly or gently; nudge; move by pushing.
  3. Hence To stimulate gently; stir up by a hint or reminder: as, to jog a person's memory.
  4. To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; move idly, heavily, or slowly: generally followed by on or along.
  5. n. A slight push or shake; a nudge; especially, a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention.
  6. n. Irregularity of motion; a jolting motion; a jolt or shake.
  7. n. In mech., a square notch; a right-angled recess or step. See cut under joint (fig. b).
  8. n. Any notch or recess in a line; a small depression in a surface; an irregularity of line or surface.
  9. n. In mining, a short post or piece of timber placed between two others to keep them apart; a studdle.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A form of exercise, slower than a run
  2. v. To move or shake with a push or jerk; to jolt.
  3. v. To push slightly.
  4. v. To shake, stir or rouse.
  5. v. To have a jog (UK); to take a jog (US).
  6. v. To straighten stacks of paper by lighting tapping against a flat surface.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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.
  2. v. To suggest to; to notify; to remind; to call the attention of.
  3. v. To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i.
  4. v. To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; -- usually with on, sometimes with over.
  5. 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.
  6. n. A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt.
  7. 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.
  8. n. A liesurely running pace. See jog{2}, v. i.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. stimulate to remember
  2. n. a sharp change in direction
  3. v. continue talking or writing in a desultory manner
  4. v. even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
  5. v. run for exercise
  6. v. run at a moderately swift pace
  7. n. a slow pace of running
  8. n. a slight push or shake
  9. v. give a slight push to

Etymologies

  1. 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.

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