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JOG

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Irregular inflected forms: jogged    , jogging   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slight push or shake

Synonyms:

jog; nudge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("jog" is a kind of...):

push; pushing (the act of applying force in order to move something away)

Derivation:

jog (give a slight push to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A slow pace of running

Synonyms:

jog; lope; trot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("jog" is a kind of...):

locomotion; travel (self-propelled movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jog"):

dogtrot (a steady trot like that of a dog)

Derivation:

jog (run at a moderately swift pace)

jog (run for exercise)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sharp change in direction

Example:

there was a jog in the road

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("jog" is a kind of...):

angular shape; angularity (a shape having one or more sharp angles)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stimulate to remember

Example:

jog my memory

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "jog" is one way to...):

provoke; stimulate (provide the needed stimulus for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give a slight push to

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "jog" is one way to...):

nudge; poke at; prod (to push against gently)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

jog (a slight push or shake)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Run at a moderately swift pace

Synonyms:

clip; jog; trot

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "jog" is one way to...):

run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

jog (a slow pace of running)

jogger (someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise))

jogging (running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Run for exercise

Example:

jog along the canal

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "jog" is one way to...):

run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue jog

Derivation:

jog (a slow pace of running)

jogger (someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise))

jogging (running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing

Synonyms:

even up; jog; square up

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "jog" is one way to...):

square (position so as to be square)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Continue talking or writing in a desultory manner

Example:

This novel rambles on and jogs

Synonyms:

jog; ramble; ramble on

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "jog" is one way to...):

carry on; continue; go on; proceed (continue talking)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

After we had jogged on for some little time, I asked the carrier if he was going all the way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The workers looked hungrily at him, and then jogged onwards upon their way in slow, lumbering Saxon style.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he jogged along over the fields, singing and dancing, a little dwarf met him, and asked him what made him so merry.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was so notorious in the house, that the masters and head-boys took pains to cut these marauders off at angles, and to get out of windows, and turn them out of the courtyard, before they could make the Doctor aware of their presence; which was sometimes happily effected within a few yards of him, without his knowing anything of the matter, as he jogged to and fro.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With him came Aylward and Hordle John, armed as of old, but mounted for their journey upon a pair of clumsy Landes horses, heavy-headed and shambling, but of great endurance, and capable of jogging along all day, even when between the knees of the huge archer, who turned the scale at two hundred and seventy pounds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hans took out his pocket-handkerchief, put the piece of silver into it, threw it over his shoulder, and jogged off on his road homewards.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Repeating no, and not the least, and other short assurances to the same purport, Doctor Strong jogged on before us, at a queer, uneven pace; and we followed: Mr. Wickfield, looking grave, I observed, and shaking his head to himself, without knowing that I saw him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“He could stretch one toe to the ground and bear himself up, so that I thought he would never have done. Now at last, however, he is safely in paradise, and so I may jog on upon my earthly way.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The next morning when Dame Ilsabill awoke it was broad daylight, and she jogged the fisherman with her elbow, and said, Get up, husband, and bestir yourself, for we must be king of all the land.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“We have long wished to meet such a man. Wilt join us and jog on to Ringwood? Thy duties shall be light, and thou shalt have two-pence a day and meat for supper every night.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)