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Thump vs Jostle - What's the difference?

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Thump is a related term of jostle.


In lang=en terms the difference between thump and jostle

is that thump is to throb with a muffled rhythmic sound while jostle is to contend or vie in order to acquire something.

As nouns the difference between thump and jostle

is that thump is a blow that produces a muffled sound while jostle is an experience in which jostling occurs.

As verbs the difference between thump and jostle

is that thump is to hit (someone or something) as if to make a while jostle is (ambitransitive) to bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.

thump

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a blow that produces a muffled sound
  • * Tatler
    • The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.
  • the sound of such a blow; a thud

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hit (someone or something) as if to make a .
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 19, author=Jonathan Stevenson, work=BBC
    • , title= Leeds 1-3 Arsenal , passage=Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.}}
  • To thud or pound.
  • To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

    jostle

    English

    Verb

    (jostl)
  • (ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
  • * Macaulay
    • Bullies jostled him.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.
  • 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.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An experience in which jostling occurs.
  • Being crowded or in a condition of jostling.