different between jog vs wander

English

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down". Perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skokkan (“to move, shake, tremble”). More at shock.

Alternatively from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

jog (plural jogs)

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.

   Synonym: return piece

   • 1974, Earle Ernst, The Kabuki Theatre (page 143)

     This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs.

Translations

Verb

jog (third-person singular simple present jogs, present participle jogging, simple past and past participle jogged)

1. 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,^[1]

     Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see

     Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee

     That dances so divinely

   • 1725, Alexander Pope (translator), Homer’s Odyssey, London: Lintot, Volume 3, Book 14, p. 271,^[2]

     When now was wasted more than half the night,

     And the stars faded at approaching light;

     Sudden I jogg’d Ulysses, who was laid

     Fast by my side, and shiv’ring thus I said.

2. To shake, stir or rouse.

   I tried desperately to jog my memory.

3. To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
   • c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,^[3]

     Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way.

   • 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,^[4]

     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,

   • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, p. 95,^[5]

     When we had towed about four Days more, our Gunner, who was our Pilot, begun to observe that we did not keep our right Course so exactly as we ought, the River winding away a little towards the North, and gave us Notice accordingly. However, we were not willing to lose the Advantage of Water-Carriage, at least not till we were forced to it; so we jogg’d on, and the River served us about Threescore Miles further […]

   • 1835, Robert Browning, “Paracelsus” Part 4,^[6]

     That fiery doctor who had hailed me friend,

     Did it because my by-paths, once proved wrong

     And beaconed properly, would commend again

     The good old ways our sires jogged safely o’er,

     Though not their squeamish sons; […]

4. (exercise) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
5. To cause to move at an energetic trot.

   to jog a horse

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

Translations

Related terms

• jogging

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

jog

1. first-person singular present indicative of joggen
2. imperative of joggen

Anagrams

• goj

Hungarian

Etymology

From jó (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?jo?]
• Hyphenation: jog
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

jog (countable and uncountable, plural jogok)

1. right (as a legal, just or moral entitlement)
2. law (the body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community; jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• törvény (“law in a more concrete sense”)

References

• Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmez? kéziszótár (’A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. ?ISBN

Lithuanian

Conjunction

jog

1. that

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) jo'ug

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *joki.

Noun

jog

1. (Salaca) river

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• jaga, jaget, jagde

Verb

jog

1. simple past of jage

English

Etymology

From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-Germanic *wandr?n? (“to wander”), from Proto-Indo-European *wend?- (“to turn, wind”), equivalent to wend +? -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• (West Midlands, especially Birmingham) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/, IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: wan?der

Verb

wander (third-person singular simple present wanders, present participle wandering, simple past and past participle wandered)

1. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

   • They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

   Synonyms: err, roam

2. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
   • Bible, Psalms cxix.10:

     O, let me not wander from thy commandments.

3. (intransitive) To commit adultery.

   Synonym: cheat

4. (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
5. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

   Synonym: drift

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

wander (countable and uncountable, plural wanders)

1. (countable) The act or instance of wandering.

2. (uncountable) The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value.

   Hyponym: polar wander

   baseline wander in ECG signals

Translations

Anagrams

• Andrew, Darwen, Warden, drawne, warden, warned

German

Pronunciation

Verb

wander

1. inflection of wandern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative