Jostle vs Earthquake - What's the difference?
jostle | earthquake | Related terms |
(ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
* Macaulay
* I. Taylor
To move through by pushing and shoving.
To be close to or in physical contact with.
To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
(dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
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:
Jostle is a related term of earthquake.
As nouns the difference between jostle and earthquake
is that jostle is an experience in which jostling occurs while earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.As a verb jostle
is (ambitransitive) to bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.jostle
English
Verb
(jostl)- Bullies jostled him.
- Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.
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.