Jog vs Sail - What's the difference?
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To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
* John Donne
* Alexander Pope
To shake, stir or rouse.
(exercise) To move in an energetic trot.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Robert Browning
To cause to move at an energetic trot.
To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
(nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
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(uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
(dated) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Plural sail .
The blade of a windmill.
A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
(fishing) A sailfish.
(paleontology) an outward projection of the
Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
* Spenser
To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
To set sail; to begin a voyage.
To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
* Shakespeare
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To move briskly.
As nouns the difference between jog and sail
is that jog is a form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot while sail is a piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.As verbs the difference between jog and sail
is that jog is to push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt while sail is to be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.jog
English
(wikipedia jog)Verb
(jogg)- jog one's elbow
- Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see / Yonder well-favoured youth?
- Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid / Fast by my side.
- I tried desperately to jog my memory.
- Jog' on, ' jog on, the footpath way.
- So hung his destiny, never to rot, / While he might still jog on and keep his trot.
- The good old ways our sires jogged safely over.
- to jog a horse
sail
English
(wikipedia sail)Etymology 1
From (etyl) 'to cut'. More at saw.Noun
(en noun)- When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive / And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;
- Let's go for a sail .
- Twenty sail were in sight.
- We caught three sails today.
- Like an eagle soaring / To weather his broad sails .
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* balloon sail * by sail * drag sail * dragon sail * point of sail * sailback * sailboard * sailboat * sailcloth * sailer * sailfish * sailing * studding sail * set sail * take the wind out of someone's sails * topsail * working sailEtymology 2
(etyl) , cognate to earlier Middle Low German segelen and its descendant Low German sailen.Verb
(en verb)- We sail for Australia tomorrow.
- As is a winged messenger of heaven, / When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, / And sails upon the bosom of the air.
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