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Thunderbolt vs Jog - What's the difference?

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Thunderbolt is a related term of jog.


As nouns the difference between thunderbolt and jog

is that thunderbolt is a flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder 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.

thunderbolt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.
  • (figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
  • * Dryden
    • the Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war
  • Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
  • * Hakewill
    • He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication.
  • (soccer) A very powerful shot.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 5 , author=Michael Kevin Darling , title=Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Substitute Niko Kranjcar's injury-time thunderbolt gave Tottenham a dramatic win over Bolton.}}
  • (paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
  • (heraldiccharge) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.

    • Derived terms

    * thunderbolt beetle

    See also

    * thunderclap

    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.

    • Related terms

    * jogging ----