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Jog vs Slump - What's the difference?

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Jog is a related term of slump.


As nouns the difference between jog and slump

is that jog is a form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot while slump is a heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.

As verbs the difference between jog and slump

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 slump is (lb) to collapse heavily or helplessly.

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.
  • slump

    English

    Verb

  • (lb) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
  • *
  • *:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
  • (lb) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal , passage=The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelsea slumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week.}}
  • (lb) To slouch or droop.
  • (lb) To lump; to throw together messily.
  • * (1788-1856)
  • These different groupsare exclusively slumped together under that sense.
  • To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
  • * (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
  • The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
  • (Scotland, UK, dialect) A boggy place.
  • (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
  • (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
  • Derived terms

    * slumplike

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