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Thunderbolt vs Jostle - What's the difference?

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Thunderbolt is a related term of jostle.


As nouns the difference between thunderbolt and jostle

is that thunderbolt is a flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder while jostle is an experience in which jostling occurs.

As a verb jostle is

(ambitransitive) to bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.

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

    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.