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Joggle vs Quake - What's the difference?

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Joggle is a related term of quake.


As verbs the difference between joggle and quake

is that joggle is to shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog while quake is (lb) to tremble or shake.

As nouns the difference between joggle and quake

is that joggle is (engineering) a step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends while quake is a trembling]] or [[shake|shaking.

joggle

English

Verb

(joggl)
  • 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
  • The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • quake

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trembling]] or [[shake, shaking.
  • We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by .
  • An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
  • California is plagued by quakes ; there are a few minor ones almost every month .

    Verb

  • (lb) To tremble or shake.
  • :
  • *Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
  • *:She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • To cause to tremble or shake.
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • Derived terms

    * Quaker ----