Fist vs Jab - What's the difference?
fist | jab |
hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward
(printing) the pointing hand symbol
(ham radio) the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code
(slang) a person's characteristic handwriting
A group of men.
The talons of a bird of prey.
* Spenser
(informal) An attempt at something.
* 2005 , Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect (page 144)
To strike with the fist.
To close (the hand) into a fist.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 29:
To grip with a fist.
* 1851 ,
(slang) To fist-fuck.
A quick stab or blow
(boxing) A short straight punch.
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(British) A medical injection.
(US, figurative) A verbal annoyance.
To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
To deliver a quick punch.
(slang, UK) To give someone an injection
As an initialism fist
is future infantry soldier technology.As a noun jab is
a quick stab or blow.As a verb jab is
to poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.fist
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fisten, fiesten, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fist, from (etyl) 'five'. More at five.Noun
(en noun)- The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.
- More light than culver in the falcon's fist .
- With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.
Synonyms
* bunch of fives * fist-size * ductusDerived terms
* fisty * iron fist * hand over fist * fistful * rule with an iron fistVerb
(en verb)- ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball.'' Damian Cullen. "Running the rule." ''The Irish Times 18 Aug 2003, pg. 52.
- He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.
- I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
See also
* knuckle * punchAnagrams
* *jab
English
(wikipedia jab)Noun
(en noun)- American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times.
- Our dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs .