Jog vs Stagger - 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.
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.
A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers.
bewilderment; perplexity.
In motorsport, the difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
sway unsteadily, reel, or totter
# In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
#* Dryden
# To cause to reel or totter.
#* Shakespeare
# To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
#* Addison
doubt, waver, be shocked
# To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
#* Bible, Rom. iv. 20
# To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
#* Howell
#* Burke
Multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856
# To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
# To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
# To schedule in intervals.
Jog is a related term of stagger.
As nouns the difference between jog and stagger
is that jog is a form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot while stagger is an unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.As verbs the difference between jog and stagger
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 stagger is sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.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
stagger
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Noun
(en noun)Stock Car Racing magazine article on stagger, February 2009
Verb
(en verb)- She began to stagger across the room.
- Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
- The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
- That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire / That staggers thus my person.
- The enemy staggers .
- He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
- He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
- Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much staggered .
- Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.
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- We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
- We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.
