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Jog vs Jong - What's the difference?

jog | jong |

As nouns the difference between jog and jong

is that jog is a form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot while jong is boy, lad.

As a verb jog

is to push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

jog

English

(wikipedia jog)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot.
  • Verb

    (jogg)
  • To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
  • jog one's elbow
  • * John Donne
  • Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see / Yonder well-favoured youth?
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid / Fast by my side.
  • To shake, stir or rouse.
  • I tried desperately to jog my memory.
  • (exercise) To move in an energetic trot.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Jog' on, ' jog on, the footpath way.
  • * Milton
  • So hung his destiny, never to rot, / While he might still jog on and keep his trot.
  • * Robert Browning
  • The good old ways our sires jogged safely over.
  • To cause to move at an energetic trot.
  • to jog a horse
  • To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
  • jong

    English

    Alternative forms

    *dzong

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
  • *1933 , (Robert Byron), First Russia, Then Tibet , Tauris Parke 2011, p. 211:
  • *:When they had gone I went for a solitary ride, rounding the Jong and striking out into the country through a subsidiary village.
  • *1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 451:
  • *:However, the Tibetans refused to negotiate – except on the British side of the frontier – and withdrew into their fortress, or jong .
  • *2011 , Peter Harrison, Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas , Osprey 2011, p. 14:
  • *:The origin of the Tibetan dzong is not known although there is evidence of Chinese and Mongol influences in the style of their military architecture.
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