different between jerk vs move

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d????k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d???k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle English yerk (“sudden motion”) and Middle English yerkid (“tightly pulled”), from Old English ?earc (“ready, active, quick”) and Old English ?earcian (“to ready, prepare”). Compare Old English ?earcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”). Related to yare.

Alternative forms

• yark

Noun

jerk (plural jerks)

1. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
   • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks, like a boat that pitches with every wave.

2. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.

   When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!

3. (US, slang, derogatory) A dull or stupid person.
4. (Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.
   • I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.
   • You really are a jerk sometimes.
5. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
6. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
7. (weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.

Usage notes

• Jerk is measured in metres per second cubed (m/s³) in SI units, or in feet per second cubed (ft/s³) in imperial units.

Synonyms

• (sudden movement): jolt, lurch, jump
• (quick tug): yank
• (stupid person): numbskull
• (unlikable person): asshole, bastard, twat, knobhead, tosser, wanker, git, dick; see Thesaurus:jerk.
• (physics, change in acceleration): jolt (British), surge, lurch

Derived terms

• jerkish
• soda jerk

Translations

Verb

jerk (third-person singular simple present jerks, present participle jerking, simple past and past participle jerked)

1. (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 23[1]

     York came to me first, whilst the groom stood at Ginger's head. He drew my head back and fixed the rein so tight that it was almost intolerable; then he went to Ginger, who was impatiently jerking her head up and down against the bit, as was her way now.

2. (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
3. (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
4. (obsolete) To beat, to hit.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Florio to this entry?)

5. (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.

   to jerk a stone

6. (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
7. (obsolete) To flout with contempt.

Derived terms

• jerk off
• jerksome

Translations

See also

• acceleration
• displacement
• velocity
• jounce

Etymology 2

From American Spanish charquear, from charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.

Noun

jerk (uncountable)

1. (Caribbean, Jamaican) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
2. (Caribbean, Jamaican) Meat cured by jerking; charqui.

   Jerk chicken is a local favorite.

Related terms

• jerky (noun)

Translations

Verb

jerk (third-person singular simple present jerks, present participle jerking, simple past and past participle jerked)

1. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

Translations

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???k/

Noun

jerk m (plural jerks)

1. jerk (dance)

Further reading

• “jerk” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Manx

Verb

jerk (verbal noun jerkal, past participle jerkit)

1. to expect

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• meve (12th to 16th centuries)
• mieve, mooue, moove (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin mov?re, present active infinitive of move? (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit ????? (m??vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). More at muff. Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?ov, IPA^(key): /mu?v/
• Rhymes: -u?v

Verb

move (third-person singular simple present moves, present participle moving, simple past and past participle moved)

1. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

   Synonym: stir

   • 1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95

     Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.

2. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act

   Synonyms: get moving, stir

4. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.

5. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.

6. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another

   Synonyms: stir, impel

7. (transitive, chess, and other games) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game

8. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

   • Seducer of the Peopie, not moved with the Piety of his Life

   • No female arts his mind could move.

9. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).

   Synonyms: affect, trouble

10. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
    • 1905, Livy, translated by Canon Roberts, From the Founding of the City Book 38

      Two days were thus wasted in the quarrel between the consuls. It was clear that while Faminius was present no decision could be arrived at. Owing to Flaminius' absence through illness, Aemilius seized the opportunity to move a resolution which the senate adopted. Its purport was that the Ambracians should have all their property restored to them; they should be free to live under their own laws; they should impose such harbour dues and other imposts by land and sea as they desired, provided that the Romans and their Italian allies were exempt.

    • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth

      And therefore they are to be blamed alike, both who moue and who decline warre […]

11. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
12. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:

      "Sir," seyde Sir Boys, "ye nede nat to meve me of such maters, for well ye wote I woll do what I may to please you."

13. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
14. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.

15. (intransitive, obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
16. (transitive, slang) To sell, to market (especially, but not exclusively, illegal products)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• actuate
• agitate
• impel
• incite
• incline
• induce
• influence
• instigate
• offer
• persuade
• prompt
• propose
• rouse
• stir
• transfer

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

move (plural moves)

1. The act of moving; a movement.
2. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

3. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.

4. The event of changing one's residence.

5. A change in strategy.

6. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[3]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:

     Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland.

7. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.

   Synonym: play

Synonyms

• (act of moving): Thesaurus:movement
• (moving to another place): removal, relocation

Derived terms

Translations

References

• move in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Finnish

Etymology

A contraction of motivaatiovemppa.

Noun

move

1. (military slang) A conscript who acquires or has acquired exemptions from physical education for falsified reasons of health, i.e. by feigning sick.

Declension

Derived terms

• verbs: movettaa

Galician

Verb

move

1. third-person singular present indicative of mover
2. second-person singular imperative of mover

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mauvais (“bad”)

Adjective

move

1. bad

Interlingua

Verb

move

1. present of mover
2. imperative of mover

Latin

Verb

mov?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of move?

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m?.vi/
• Rhymes: -?vi

Verb

move

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of mover
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of mover