What's the difference between jackass and jerk?

Jackass


Definition:

  • (n.) The male ass; a donkey.
  • (n.) A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Detroiters review – Jackass meets Mad Men as stupidity sells in the motor city Read more But it is not lost.
  • (2) In fact, even as he is readying Her for lock-down, he's simultaneously dipping in and out of the production for the Jackass spin-off, Bad Grandpa , starring Knoxville as a fake 86-year-old granddad with a huge capacity for giving offence.
  • (3) Photograph: Courtesy of Warner Bros Picture Best makeup and hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa The Lone Ranger Winner: Dallas Buyers Club Best animated feature: The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and Celestine Frozen The Wind Rises Winner: Frozen Best animated short: Feral Get a Horse!
  • (4) The latter is an intriguing vision , a trojan horse of massive deregulation of some of everything – a clown balloon horse, with rainbow polka dots and a jackass smile.
  • (5) Such is Swift’s global standing that the President himself called West “a jackass” and, five years on, the moment still hasn’t quite died in the collective imagination.
  • (6) Everyone is guilty of overdoing it on Trumpy , because Donald Trump is a jackass of galactic proportions.
  • (7) Debauchery Stratton Oakmont's profits fund a bacchanal: cars, drugs, women who are exactly as disposable as the cars and drugs, and antics that veer from Jackass territory into hazing rituals.
  • (8) At the college of St Philip and St James, which later became Presentation college, Warner claimed a mathematics teacher once called him “jackass” as he fumbled in class.
  • (9) Its main competitor is Bad Grandpa, but the academy are big on Jean-Marc Vallée’s Aids drama, nominating it six times, and I don’t think a Jackass production can steal its thunder.
  • (10) "[He's] completed his own transformation from a sharp-elbowed, apocalyptic satirist focused on sending up the socio-economic-political plight of this country into a kind of 19th-century realist concerned with the public and private lives of his characters," wrote the influential reviewer about the novel, in a huge change of heart from her dissection of Franzen's memoir The Discomfort Zone in 2006 , which she called "an odious self-portrait of the artist as a young jackass: petulant, pompous, obsessive, selfish and overwhelmingly self-absorbed".
  • (11) A video on YouTube, Elders React to Dubstep , plays on this idea: various old folk, exposed to a barrage of bass-screech, offer comments such as "incomprehensible", "like Jackass in a bottle", and, revealingly, "it make me feel like the future is now".
  • (12) But the Jackass movies have something in common with the earliest, oldest kinds of cinema, in which a camera was simply set up, and insane things were enacted before it.
  • (13) David Carr, the New York Times's influential media critic, memorably assailed its style as "putting on a safari hat and looking at some poop" , while Dan Rather, one of US broadcasting's elder statesmen, recently dismissed Vice as "more Jackass than journalism".
  • (14) These are African penguins, they used to be called Jackass penguins.
  • (15) I’ll leave you to choose them.” Having demurred, he then pointedly alluded to a speech at a recent fundraiser in which he had called Cruz a “jackass”.
  • (16) This study investigates the functional anatomy of the flipper of the jackass penguin (Speniscus demersus).
  • (17) Which is fine: jackasses have their place in world like anyone else.
  • (18) If you watch Jackass again you'll kinda see how much we plagiarised from Tom and Jerry – it's pathetic!"
  • (19) The activity of 5'-nucleotidase (EC 1.3.5), cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (EC 2.1.4.17), non-specific phosphodiesterase (EC 3.1.4.1) and ribonuclease (EC 1.7.7.16)has been investigated in the seminal plasma of whole semen and in the secretions of the seminal vesicle, prostate and epididymis of the bull, boar, ram, stallion, jackass, rabbit and man.
  • (20) Jackass – the newsie Facebook Twitter Pinterest Former Telegraph proprietor Conrad Black comes under pressure from Boulton while attempting to downplay his fraud conviction – and brands the political editor a "jackass".

Jerk


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.
  • (v. t.) To beat; to strike.
  • (v. t.) To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.
  • (v. t.) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.
  • (v. i.) To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.
  • (v. i.) To flout with contempt.
  • (n.) A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.
  • (n.) A sudden start or spring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
  • (2) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
  • (3) In reflex-induced jerks this negative transient could be recognized as a component of the sensory evoked potential.
  • (4) A dynamic optimization technique to minimize jerk cost under the constraint on jerk input was applied to interpret the results, assuming that a major goal of skilled movements was to produce optimally smooth movements.
  • (5) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
  • (6) Results from animal experiments and neuropathological studies suggest that the abolition of jerks in such cases is probably due to loss of facilitating influences from the cerebral cortex and central grey nuclei.
  • (7) Surgery caused or aggravated unilaterally diminished knee or ankle jerks in 3% and 10% of cases, respectively.
  • (8) This is a gladiatorial display – that is what people go to see.” Bray added: “The popular knee-jerk reaction will be we should ban airshows, but it’s very rare for such a crash to take place.
  • (9) High-frequency trading may or may not distort markets, but surely a knee-jerk reaction by banning it is not the answer.
  • (10) In order to overcome various drawbacks of the conventional polygraphic study of a relationship between myoclonus and EEG, the EEG preceding and following the myoclonic jerk was simultaneously averaged by the CNV program.
  • (11) Compared with the myoclonic-serotonergic syndrome evoked by 5-hydroxytryptophan in rats with 5.7-dihydroxytryptamine lesions, harmaline+5-hydroxytryptophan-treated rats displayed more continuous and greater axial myoclonic jerks and some postural differences.
  • (12) The effects of electrical stimulation and microinjection of sodium glutamate (0.5 M) in the sympathetic pressor areas of the dorsal medulla (DM), ventrolateral medulla (VLM), and parvocellular nucleus (PVC) on the knee jerk, crossed extension, and evoked potential of the L5 ventral root produced by intermittent electrical stimulation were studied in 98 adult cats anesthetized with chloralose and urethane.
  • (13) The knee jerk itself is seen as a "physiological artefact," resulting from a mode of stimulation that does not occur in life, with the normal function of its underlying circuitry still under debate.
  • (14) The patients did not significantly differ from controls on catch-up saccade amplitude, square wave jerk rate, or anticipatory saccade rate.
  • (15) It was confirmed that the technique of jerk-locked averaging with a backward averaging program was useful for detecting cortical spikes in association with the spontaneously occurring myoclonus, which are not recognized on the convential polygraph, and for evaluating the temporal and topographical relationship between the spike and the myoclonus.
  • (16) The typical electrophysiological correlates of myoclonus in Alzheimer's disease are similar to those of cortical reflex myoclonus, with a focal, contralateral negativity in the EEG preceding the myoclonic jerk.
  • (17) The analgesic effect of morphine in the rat tail jerk assay was enhanced by the serotonin uptake inhibitor, fluoxetine.
  • (18) In focal epileptic status, the single dose stopped paroxysmal activity and the associated clonic jerks for a few seconds.
  • (19) The occurrence of horizontal jerks with larger amplitudes than on Earth was observed during vertical optokinetic nystagmus in astronauts tested throughout a 7-day spaceflight.
  • (20) Only one patient felt his knee to be unstable (he had a positive pivot jerk).