Jostle vs Yank - What's the difference?
jostle | yank |
(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 sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
To pull something with a quick, strong action.
to remove from circulation
In transitive terms the difference between jostle and yank
is that jostle is to be close to or in physical contact with while yank is to remove from circulation.As verbs the difference between jostle and yank
is that jostle is to bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside while yank is to pull something with a quick, strong action.As nouns the difference between jostle and yank
is that jostle is an experience in which jostling occurs while yank is a sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).jostle
English
Verb
(jostl)- Bullies jostled him.
- Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.
yank
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* jerk, tugVerb
(en verb)- They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.
