different between setback vs joggle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?tbæk/

Etymology

From the verb phrase set back.

Noun

setback (plural setbacks)

1. An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards a desired outcome)

   After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.

2. (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
3. (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.

   Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.

4. An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
   • 1980, Popular Science (volume 217, number 4)

     Fuel savings from thermostat setbacks have long been accepted as fact, but little documentation existed to support it.

5. (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
6. (archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.

Translations

Anagrams

• backest, backets, backset

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)

1. (transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
2. (intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
3. To jog or run while juggling.
4. (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.

Translations

Noun

joggle (plural joggles)

1. (engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
2. (architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.