(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.
Nolt
Definition:
(n. sing. & pl.) Neat cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have not sought to understate the achievements of the NHS – but a 2008 study by Martin McKee and Ellen Nolte , citing OECD data, concluded that the UK had one of the worst rates of mortality amenable to healthcare among rich nations.
(2) For Lindqvist, Nolte's mistake was to look east for Hitler's inspiration.
(3) At the same post-menstrual age (39-41 weeks), EEG maturation assessed according to the Nolte and Haas method (Nolte, R. and Haas, H.G.
(4) A spot in the best actor list has been found for Demián Bichir, the Mexico-born lead of East LA saga A Better Life , and one in the best supporting actor list for Nick Nolte for Warrior , completing a Hollywood rehabilitation after his arrest for DUI in 2002.
(5) As well as Crowe, Noah stars Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, Douglas Booth, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Ray Winstone and Frank Langella.
(6) This study replicates the finding of Nolte et al and suggests parents need to be actively recruited to discourage their children from smoking, regardless of their own behavior.
(7) Rooney Mara, considered an outsider in the best actress category, was included after all, while Nick Nolte and Max von Sydow were surprise nods in the supporting actor field.
(8) In 1983, Nolte and colleagues reported parental attitude may be more powerful than parental behavior in shaping adolescent cigarette smoking behavior.
(9) For starters, he was Nolte-ishly burly tending to fat, and the core of his appeal is a doe-eyed innocence, easily amped up to the phosphorescent dimness of Parks And Recreation ’s Andy Dwyer, but it’s not necessarily built for toughness.
(10) As optimal therapy with inhaled steroids invariably demands the use of a spacer (Nolte, 1989), a specific inhalation device adapted to flunisolide metered dose inhaler was required.
(11) The early statements that the EEG alone could correctly be used for the assessment of gestational age (cf., among others, Dreyfus-Brisac, 1964; Parmelee et al., 1968; and Nolte et al., 1969), even in pathological babies, need some restrictive qualifications.
(12) His return to Hollywood with The Thin Red Line won him the Golden Bear at Berlin and seven Oscar nominations and although he cast famous names including George Clooney, John Cusack and Nick Nolte, many of the stars were cut out entirely and those who remained played second fiddle to a greater tale about man's place in the natural order.
(13) And during the historikerstreit (historians' quarrel) in 1980s Germany, Ernst Nolte provoked fury among fellow intellectuals with his contention that the Holocaust was Hitler's "distorted copy" of Stalin's extermination of the Kulaks.
(14) Evaluation of the ionic strength dependence concurs with the results of Nolte et al.
(15) After correction for cuticle absorption, the psychophysical spectral sensitivity function was compared with previously reported spectral sensitivity functions obtained either from electrophysiologic (Millecchia, Bradbury, and Mauro, 1966; Nolte and Brown, 1970) or from microspectrophotometric (Murry, 1966) recordings from single, isolated ventral eye photoreceptor cells.
(16) The most lurid complaint came from John Nolte, writing on the rightist aggregation site Breitbart.com , who charged Crowley not only with jumping into the debate to take Obama's side but also of steering the entire debate in such a way as to make it "a total and complete setup to rehabilitate Barack Obama".
(17) In response, Burstow cites a 2008 paper by McKee and Nolte which he says "concluded that the UK had one of the worst rates of mortality amenable to healthcare among rich nations".