Joggle vs Earthquake - What's the difference?
joggle | earthquake | Related terms |
To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
To jog or run while juggling.
(architecture) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
* Gwilt
(engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
(architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
Joggle is a related term of earthquake.
As nouns the difference between joggle and earthquake
is that joggle is (engineering) a step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends while earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.As a verb joggle
is to shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.joggle
English
Verb
(joggl)- The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.
Noun
(en noun)earthquake
English
(wikipedia earthquake)Noun
(en noun)- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.