jog
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Is jog a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (theater) A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.Examples: "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."Synonyms: return piece
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.Examples: "jog one's elbow"; "c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I, Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee That dances so divinely"; "When now was wasted more than half the night, And the stars faded at approaching light; Sudden I jogg’d Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side, and shiv’ring thus I said."transitive
2. (transitive) To shake, stir or rouse.Examples: "I tried desperately to jog my memory."Synonyms: refreshtransitive
3. (intransitive) To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.Examples: "Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way."; "1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33, Here lieth one who did most truly prove, That he could never die while he could move, So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,"; "When we had towed about four Days more, our Gunner, who was our Pilot, begun to observe that we did not keep our right Course so exactly as we ought, the River winding away a little towards the North, and gave us Notice accordingly. However, we were not willing to lose the Advantage of Water-Carriage, at least not till we were forced to it; so we jogg’d on, and the River served us about Threescore Miles further […]"intransitive
4. (exercise, intransitive) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.Examples: "I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday."intransitive
5. (transitive) To cause to move at an energetic trot.Examples: "to jog a horse"transitive
6. (transitive) To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.transitive
noun (English)
1. (conspiracy theories, neo-Nazism, offensive) Acronym of Jewish occupation governmentSynonyms: ZOGabbreviationacronymalt-ofoffensive
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Definition source: Wiktionary