Definition of "jog" in İngilizce

noun

1. An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.

2. A sudden push or nudge.

3. (theater) A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

4. In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.

verb

1. (transitive) To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

   • jog one's elbow
   • c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I, Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee That dances so divinely

2. (transitive) To shake, stir or rouse.

   • I tried desperately to jog my memory.

3. (intransitive) To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.

   • 1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33, Here lieth one who did most truly prove, That he could never die while he could move, So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,

4. (exercise, intransitive) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.

   • I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.

5. (transitive) To cause to move at an energetic trot.

   • to jog a horse

6. (transitive) To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.