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Jolt vs Gore - What's the difference?

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Jolt is a related term of gore.


As a verb jolt

is to push or shake abruptly and roughly.

As a noun jolt

is an act of jolting.

As a proper noun gore is

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jolt

English

(wikipedia jolt)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
  • The bus jolted its passengers.
  • To knock sharply; to deal a blow to.
  • To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert; as, to jolt someone out of complacency
  • To shock emotionally.
  • Her untimely death jolted us all.
  • To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
  • The bus jolted along the stony path.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of jolting.
  • A surprise or shock.
  • (slang) A long prison sentence.
  • (slang) A narcotic injection.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (prison sentence) bit

    gore

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Dirt, filth.
  • (Bishop Fisher)
  • (senseid)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  • Murder, bloodshed, violence.
  • Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 2

    Probably from .

    Verb

    (gor)
  • (of an animal) To pierce with the horns.
  • The bull gored the matador.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
  • (Cowell)
  • A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.
  • *
  • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores : not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  • An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
  • A projecting point.
  • (heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
  • Verb

    (gor)
  • To cut in a triangular form.
  • To provide with a gore.
  • to gore an apron