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Setback vs Jog - What's the difference?

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Setback is a related term of jog.


As nouns the difference between setback and jog

is that setback is an obstacle, delay, or disadvantage while jog is a form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot.

As a verb jog is

to push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

setback

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.
  • After some initial setbacks , the expedition went safely on its way.
  • (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
  • (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.
  • Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
  • (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
  • A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
  • Anagrams

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    jog

    English

    (wikipedia jog)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot.
  • Verb

    (jogg)
  • To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
  • jog one's elbow
  • * John Donne
  • Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see / Yonder well-favoured youth?
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid / Fast by my side.
  • To shake, stir or rouse.
  • I tried desperately to jog my memory.
  • (exercise) To move in an energetic trot.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Jog' on, ' jog on, the footpath way.
  • * Milton
  • So hung his destiny, never to rot, / While he might still jog on and keep his trot.
  • * Robert Browning
  • The good old ways our sires jogged safely over.
  • To cause to move at an energetic trot.
  • to jog a horse
  • To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.