What's the difference between jock and nerd?

Jock


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
  • (2) The ghastliness of this American shock jock, who, though still obscure to most Britons, is said to be the third most popular radio host in the States, perhaps explains why news of his continued exclusion from the UK was greeted last week with utter indifference.
  • (3) However, by 1994 the increasingly restless veteran jock was lured away again to Capital, where he could be heard crashing his way through Pick of the Pops Take Three at weekends, and to Virgin Radio, which took up his rock show.
  • (4) Jock Duncan, UK high commissioner in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, observed the arrival of the Pahlavi entourage aboard a chartered Air Maroc 747 jet.
  • (5) Even to the end he was being watched like a hawk, his every move and utterance scrutinised for disloyalty or plotting or insurrection, the shock jocks attacking him and blaming him for everything (on Tuesday Ray Hadley said he was up himself because of the way he wears his shirt).
  • (6) Hillary’s health hoax Most of the recent flurry stems directly from InfoWars, a conspiracy-fueled political site run by shock jock Alex Jones that funds itself partly through the sale of supplies necessary for doomsday prepping such as bulk vitamins and a year’s worth of long-life food.
  • (7) (Anyone notice how the radio jocks were well armed on Thursday morning with lists of past Labor trangressions?)
  • (8) With the normal seats stowed away, the Jocks – as the men are known – arranged themselves on the floors of the helicopters, legs tucked around the man in front of them and the bulky rifles, rocket launchers, radios and other kit.
  • (9) The four-parter, starring Max Beesley as a radio shock jock who has a crisis in his personal life, had 5.5 million viewers and a 22% share last night between 9pm and 10pm.
  • (10) They found that among dirts (problem-prone youth), regulars (average youth), hot-shots (good social or academic performers), and jocks (athletes), youth most likely to smoke were dirts and hot-shots.
  • (11) The political crisis has come about after the murder of ex-IRA prisoner Kevin McGuigan whom mainstream republicans blamed for killing former Belfast IRA commander Gerard “Jock” Davison back in May.
  • (12) The 42-year-old film-maker also gave an interview on Monday on shock jock Howard Stern's radio show in which he spoke about sexual conquests, masturbation, oral sex, his genitalia, the erotic habits of Hollywood moguls and his supposed habit of sending potential partners to his doctor to be checked for sexually transmitted diseases before he sleeps with them.
  • (13) Worldly-wise but digi-ignorant, the Vaughn-Wilson jock explosion throw in their lot with the socially maladjusted nerdly-wise virgins and soon enough, with the help of code-writing lessons for the oldies and lap dances for the virgin-geeks, they all learn to get along.
  • (14) For the second day running , Google Translate hasn't been able to cope with the gnomic utterances of Jock Wallace.
  • (15) wonders Greig Aitken, raising the possibility that Fabio Capello and the late, great Jock Wallace have more in common than was previously thought.
  • (16) If I could launch just one experiment, it may well be that I temporarily banish all straight men from the planet for six months (don't worry – I would send you to planet Jock where you could drive around on quad bikes or in Porsches, and in the evening there would be poker and beer), and see if this peaceful utopia occurred.
  • (17) Downing Street was irritated with Fox when he announced in June that Sir Jock Stirrup would be standing down as chief of the defence staff.
  • (18) In the US, there are the #ProudBoys , a sort of baby-man movement created for failed jocks who need constant reassurance that daddy loves them.
  • (19) Adams said it was up to the PSNI and not politicians to investigate the McGuigan murder and the previous killing of ex-IRA man Gerard “Jock” Davison.
  • (20) This is like entertainment but it’s scary because of the anger and aggression.” The appearance came as it emerged Trump had made similarly crude comments about his relationships with women in a series of interviews with the US “shock jock” Howard Stern.

Nerd


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  • (1) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
  • (2) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
  • (3) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
  • (4) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
  • (5) This target audience includes not just those young people taking part in state-sponsored sports and defence training or patriotic youth groups, but also nerds who love western videogames and superheroes.
  • (6) "I'm a nerd who likes to keep his private life private," he said.
  • (7) Whereas Crow tended to rely on his rhetoric and his street-fighter smarts, Whelan is more of a data nerd – part barrow boy, part actuary.
  • (8) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
  • (9) There was already a perception that Ed Miliband was too geeky, too much of an unworldly politics nerd, to have a realistic chance of power.
  • (10) Worldly-wise but digi-ignorant, the Vaughn-Wilson jock explosion throw in their lot with the socially maladjusted nerdly-wise virgins and soon enough, with the help of code-writing lessons for the oldies and lap dances for the virgin-geeks, they all learn to get along.
  • (11) And it would be nothing short of condescending for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher to have concocted some fictional spunky-girl nerd character or a wise female comp sci professor in an attempt to make their film more female-friendly.
  • (12) "Adam had this typical nerd look: belts, tucked-in shirt.
  • (13) There are duelling nerds in sports jackets and a panicky associate producer (inevitably and infuriatingly female) who is smarter than her ditzy persona would have you believe.
  • (14) 2.16pm BST Moyes music I'm something of a music nerd, so do keep the suggestions for Dave's iPod coming.
  • (15) "Really in those early days the web was just for nerds like me, if you wanted some tech advice or needed to find out how to do something.
  • (16) And for those who think interplanetary exploration is just nonsense for space nerds, the same lessons could surely be applied closer to home.
  • (17) So then I grew up and I stopped taking nerd-drugs, and about the same time, Starbucks opened in the UK, whereupon I took to getting double espressos, except they were never big enough.
  • (18) The open source community are geeks and nerds and they created the current inequality in technology.'
  • (19) June 18, 2014 2.13pm BST Paul Doyle has spent the last few hours in a dark corner of the office, nerding it up on Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
  • (20) His conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" – people capable of breaking out of the walled gardens.