(v. t.) To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn.
(v. t.) To suggest to; to notify; to remind; to call the attention of; as, to jog the memory.
(v. t.) To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i.
(v. i.) To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; -- usually with on, sometimes with over.
(n.) A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt.
(n.) A rub; a slight stop; an obstruction; hence, an irregularity in motion of from; a hitch; a break in the direction of a line or the surface of a plane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Training must be based on physical exercises in endurance (jogging, bicycle) at the rate of 3 weekly sessions to reach a good level of intensity corresponding at least to an energy consumption of 2,000 calories per week.
(2) To determine whether recreational levels of training (jogging) will provoke short luteal phase menstrual cycles, a prospective study was conducted.
(3) On separate occasions, each subject walked (4.8 kph) or jogged (9.6 kph) for 25 min.
(4) Participation in vigorous sports activities, such as jogging, swimming, tennis, etc., helps to protect against the development of hypertension, even when other predisposing factors are present.
(5) The solution is for Hathaway to spend a year in sarky Manchester, where her attempts to go jogging will be thwarted by 324 days of rain, and if she so much as thinks about telling a Mancunian barmaid that she has poured those lagers fantastically well, she will swiftly learn an aloofness not taught in any American drama school.
(6) Patients' confidence in their ability to jog various distances was measured with a jog self-efficacy (SE) scale before a group exercise program was begun.
(7) In Portland, their routine starts with Farah and Rupp running 12 miles on grass before they jog to a running track that seems to have been dropped from 30,000 feet into the woods.
(8) In the present study, insulin action was determined using the euglycemic clamp technique in six untrained nonobese subjects before, during, and after long-term mild regular jogging.
(9) In the training group, patients performed 2 km walk-jog exercise everyday for 1 month, keeping their heart rate (HR) at 90-100% of that in the anaerobic threshold.
(10) 8.08pm BST 6 min: Baines goes on a wee jog down the left, and guides a cross-cum-pass into the area for Rooney, arriving late level with the left-hand post, ten yards out.
(11) They’d say: ‘Today he’s jogging but he doesn’t look quite right’.
(12) The levels of the thyrotropic and thyroid hormones were studied in the serum of 115 persons going in for jogging and in 271 persons not going in for jogging, using a radioimmunoassay.
(13) Under the name of "brain jogging", an economical programme is introduced for mental training, aimed at maintaining and improving basic central information processing capacities.
(14) The aerobic regimen consisted of walking, jogging, stationary bicycling, or any combination of these activities for 30 minutes, four times a week, at 65-80% maximal heart rate.
(15) These findings indicate that water walking could serve as an effective exercise mode, for example, for cardiorespiratory fitness for individuals who are unable to perform such weight-bearing activities as jogging, fast walking, cycling, and dancing.
(16) The change in the aggregation response was significant for t alpha at month 1 and for delta tmax at month 2 after starting the jogging.
(17) Endurance jogging reduced the sympathetic response to moderate exercise.
(18) Physiologic levels were maintained during the final 8 weeks and showed no differences between the CST and jogging groups.
(19) The training program consisted of three 45-min walking and jogging exercise sessions per week at an intensity of approximately 60-85% of the heart rate at peak VO2.
(20) Five healthy, mature, previously trained Standardbred horses were given no exercise (left in a stall) for 4 months, then jogged (slow exercise) for 3 weeks, and placed in a 6-week training period.
Nudge
Definition:
(v. t.) To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.
(n.) A gentle push, or jog, as with the elbow.
Example Sentences:
(1) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(2) His report was widely rubbished at the time for lack of supporting evidence, and the addition of Osborne's sweeteners (or nudges, perhaps?)
(3) There may, however, be a large section on "the nudge unit", otherwise known as the cabinet office's behavioural insights team .
(4) So it must be very tempting to introduce "nudge" legislation.
(5) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(6) Nicholls, who had qualified automatically for the final, scored 85.5 from the judges on his first run but was eventually nudged out of the medals.
(7) When Javier Hernández scored from close range to make it 3-0 after his captain Rafael Márquez had nudged on a corner, Mexico and their army of supporters had everything they wanted and more.
(8) With climate change and energy use nudging the top of political and commercial agendas, these are companies that have a stake in how our world develops.
(9) Walters, all alone in the crowd, nudged home after a slight pause.
(10) Breyer, who is on the lefter side of the bench with Ginsburg, nudged her at least eight times during the ceremony, according to the Washington Post .
(11) That should have ended it but Griezmann eventually did, nudging over the line after Saúl had headed Turan’s perfect pass across the face of the goal.
(12) As for Disney’s ‘pressure’ to lose weight, she should be even more grateful for being nudged to get healthy.
(13) Geoff Mulgan, a former head of the strategy unit at No 10, where Halpern once worked, and who is now the head of Nesta, said the partnership with the nudge unit allowed for talent sharing and international expansion with cities around the world.
(14) Rooney is nudged over by Friedrich, 40 yards out, just to the right.
(15) Schools prove the point: per capita funding falls but free schools and Theresa May’s grammars get (relatively small) financial nudges.
(16) "Governments whether right or left have become commissioners in chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of," said Iannucci.
(17) The unit may offer contracts based on risk and reward so that if its advice to public- or private-sector bodies does lead to significant savings, the nudge unit gets a share.
(18) Someone nudged their friend so I said: "Who do you bank for?"
(19) If the nudge unit has discovered anything, it’s that an understanding of human behaviour is vital for almost all public policy.
(20) Every magistrate hears idiotic excuses from stupid criminals, but this is the DWP's unsubtle nudge that all claimants are fraudsters beneath the skin.