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joggle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d????l/
- Rhymes: -???l
Verb
joggle (third-person singular simple present joggles, present participle joggling, simple past and past participle joggled)
- (transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
- (intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
- To jog or run while juggling.
- (architecture, transitive) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
- 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture
- The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.
- 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture
Translations
Noun
joggle (plural joggles)
- (engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
- (architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.
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earthquake
English
Etymology
From Middle English erthequake, erd-quake, corresponding to earth +? quake. Compare similar formations in eorþbeofung (“earthquake”, literally “earth-shaking”), eorþdyne (“earthquake”, literally “earth-din”), eorþstyring (“earthquake”, literally “earth-stirring”), eorþhr?rness (“earthquake”, literally “earth-stirring”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????kwe?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???kwe?k/
Noun
earthquake (plural earthquakes)
- A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- 2006, Declan Walsh, The Guardian, 6 Oct 2006:
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- (planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies. [from 20th c.]
- 1988, Jürgen Oberst and Yosio Nakamura, “A seismic risk for the lunar base” in The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, Vol. 1, p. 231-233, NASA:
- Since the response of some man-made structures to the ground motion near the epicenter is highly dependent on frequency, a significant difference in potential damage to the structures is expected between earthquakes and moonquakes.
- 1988, Jürgen Oberst and Yosio Nakamura, “A seismic risk for the lunar base” in The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, Vol. 1, p. 231-233, NASA:
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- moonquake
- seaquake
- starquake
Translations
Verb
earthquake (third-person singular simple present earthquakes, present participle earthquaking, simple past and past participle earthquaked)
- (intransitive) To undergo an earthquake.
- 1993, Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, The Best of Times: The Worst of Times (page 129)
- Watch the Philippines very closely for the next little while. There is rumbling and earthquaking deep within Pinatubo and increased earthquaking within Mayon.
- 1993, Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, The Best of Times: The Worst of Times (page 129)
See also
- aftershock
- earthquake engineering
- fault line
- Richter scale
- seismic
- seismograph
- seismologist
- seismology
- tremor
- tsunami
Further reading
- earthquake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tectonic hazards/Earthquake on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
- Category:Animations of earthquake impact on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- heartquake
Scots
Alternative forms
- yirthquake, yearthquawk
Noun
earthquake (plural earthquakes)
- earthquake
- Synonym: yirdquauk
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