What's the difference between jolt and jostle?

Jolt


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.
  • (v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.
  • (n.) A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
  • (2) So here’s hoping that the electricity of Paris will have given Ms Rudd the sort of shock that might jolt her from half-decent intentions into a real and lasting commitment to act.
  • (3) She writes: Reassurances from the US that short-term measures will be instigated to avert the upcoming debt-ceiling deadline have given European equity markets a jolt upwards, helping to stem some of the risk aversion of the past few days.
  • (4) Although much has been made, since the referendum, of results showing that areas with little migration were most opposed to it, we should not underestimate the jolt that accompanied the effects of free movement within a newly enlarged European Union.
  • (5) Updated at 2.10pm BST 1.47pm BST Over to America, where the latest productivity figures confirm that the US economy took a nasty jolt over the winter, when bad weather gripped the country.
  • (6) The chemical disaster in Bhopal jolted activist groups around the world into renewing their demands for right-to-know legislation granting them broader access to information about hazardous technologies.
  • (7) In "jolting" mice aged 4 months or more there was a marked loss of Purkinje cells and spheroids were present on Purkinje cell axons.
  • (8) The chief executive, Simon Lim, says Tan was jolted by the manager's announcement that he would seek backing from the board for strengthening.
  • (9) But we need a jolt at a national level to regain control of our destiny," Ayrault said.
  • (10) The legislation was passed by the House foreign affairs committee last February but it was stalled until Pyongyang jolted the world by setting off an underground nuclear bomb test.
  • (11) They had endured a jolting four-hour journey from their village of Rorabad, along roads sometimes seeded with Taliban bombs, but still Maraz Gul considers herself relatively lucky compared with neighbours whose children are also wasting away.
  • (12) The central bank needs to convince them that it will do “whatever it takes,” as Draghi put it in July 2012, to jolt the economy out of its deflationary lethargy.
  • (13) On the bare floor of an open-backed military truck, Ariel Sharon's flag-draped coffin jolted along a rough track to a hilltop spot overlooking his ranch on the edge of the Negev desert, where he was laid to rest next to his beloved wife.
  • (14) "I saw him jolt back and put his hands on his face and there was blood there.
  • (15) They also believe that the prime minister has ceded too much ground to Nick Clegg after the Liberal Democrats were jolted by their heavy defeat in the AV referendum in May.
  • (16) Unions say it was the balloting of their members that jolted the government into improving its offer at a late stage, and that some scheme-specific talks have not taken place since the offer was announced.
  • (17) The breaks between these sections jolt us back in time to see the causes of consequences we have already observed.
  • (18) Reformers finally have the jolt in the arm they needed to prevent the positive impact of Snowden’s revelations dribbling away.
  • (19) A magnitude 6.6 aftershock struck an hour later and there were smaller jolts in the region for hours.
  • (20) But his words are jolting and lucid as he recalls a terrifying ordeal.

Jostle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against.
  • (v. i.) To push; to crowd; to hustle.
  • (n.) A conflict by collisions; a crowding or bumping together; interference.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They moved to shore up May’s position after a weekend of damaging leaks and briefings from inside the cabinet, believed to be fuelled by some of those jostling to succeed the prime minister after her disastrous election result.
  • (2) With so many superfoods jostling for attention in the media and on supermarket shelves, it’s not always easy to separate the fad from the genuinely healthy.
  • (3) Having a British shoe designer to work with "felt like a really nice connection because we are opening in London," said Tom Mora, head of women's design, as a scrum of guests jostled for a better Instagram shot of the models behind him.
  • (4) There are nominal cycle lanes on some of the capital's main thoroughfares, but with seven million cars jostling for space, those lanes are often cannibalised by motorised rickshaws and scooters, leaving no safe space for bicyclists.
  • (5) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (6) Chimpanzees copy the dominant male in behaviours that are seen to work, which is perhaps why – again, with apologies to chimpanzees – the White House press corps spent Trump’s first press conference the other week jostling needily for attention, adopting a noticeably brasher tone as they called out their questions, and allowing the weaker of their number to be bullied by the dominant male.
  • (7) Next to these disasters, the odd jostle to climb on to a refrigerated lorry in Calais, which recently was depicted as a hideous national crisis, is a minor issue.
  • (8) It became clear at some point between the exhibition packed with people (mid-week) politely jostling each other to examine the tiny fragments of a culture that disappeared over a thousand years ago and the gift shop mugs and tea cloths depicting charts of the seas – North, Baltic, Atlantic – across which the Vikings sailed.
  • (9) Manchester City have elbowed Bayern Munich and Liverpool out of the way as the three clubs jostle for position at the head of a queue forming for Schalke’s Leroy Sané , the German international winger who would cost up to £40m.
  • (10) He also wins a little jostle with Lehrer: Lehrer : Your two minutes is up, sir Obama : I had five seconds before you interrupted me Obama also wraps up Massachusetts' Romneycare in an embrace, but Romney neatly turns it around and accuses Obama of ignoring bipartisanship, which he ahd embraced as governor, as well as making various accusations, the most off-beam of which was saying: "We didn't cut $716m from Medicare, we didn't have Medicare."
  • (11) The two jostled over who was the closest to Israel, with Romney berating Obama for failing to visit Israel during a Middle East tour.
  • (12) The stoning ritual, in which worshippers jostle for position to take aim at the pillars, has been the scene of seven similar incidents over the past two decades.
  • (13) Law accused Nauru's president, Baron Waqa, of acting in contempt of court and said he was jostled and pushed by his arresting officer.
  • (14) He later left the court amid angry jostling between the two legal teams after a defence lawyer accused Akram Sheikh, the special prosecutor in the case, of issuing threats in private against his adversaries.
  • (15) There are mothers in pastel hijabs, men in T-shirts and longyis, and naked children clutching on to grandparents, jostling for space among puddles and dust, held back by guards with rifles.
  • (16) At the close of the session, hundreds of MPs were seen jostling for taxis outside the Reichstag building, impatient to return to their interrupted summer holidays and hoping that they were free of the Greek crisis for the time being.
  • (17) Egypt's breadbasket is littered with the remnants of old colonisers, from the Romans to the Germans, and today its 50 million inhabitants jostle for space among the crumbling forts and cemeteries of those who sought to subjugate them in the past.
  • (18) All outfield players jostle on the edge of the area, bar Assou-Ekotto, who swings one into the far post.
  • (19) Republican hopefuls jostle for limelight in TV debate as Trump's shadow looms Read more Two more debates will be held in either February or March – one in Miami as a cooperative effort with Univision and the Washington Post, and one in Wisconsin held with PBS.
  • (20) Most nights of the week, Isaac will make a two-hour round trip to a Nigerian border town, jostle his way to the front of large crowds at fuel stations and return with enough fuel to fill up four 4x4s.