different between shove vs jolt

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English sc?fan, from Proto-Germanic *skeuban? (compare West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva), from Proto-Indo-European *skewb?- (compare Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skuba? ‘to pluck’, Albanian humb ‘to lose’).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?v, IPA^(key): /??v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Verb

shove (third-person singular simple present shoves, present participle shoving, simple past shoved or (obsolete) shave, past participle shoved or (obsolete) shoven)

1. (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
   • The ship was anon shoven in the sea.

2. (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
   • 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

     He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.

3. (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
4. (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

shove (plural shoves)

1. A rough push.

   • I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.

2. (poker slang) An all-in bet.
3. A forward movement of packed river-ice.

Derived terms

• ice shove
• when push comes to shove

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Verb

shove

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of shave

Anagrams

• hoves

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English jollen (“to stagger, knock, batter”), itself perhaps a variant of Middle English chollen (“to strike, juggle, do tricks”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??lt/, IPA^(key): /d???lt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?o?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt, -??lt

Verb

jolt (third-person singular simple present jolts, present participle jolting, simple past and past participle jolted)

1. (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.

   The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.

2. (transitive) To knock sharply
3. (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert

   I jolted her out of complacency.

4. (transitive) To shock emotionally.

   Her untimely death jolted us all.

5. (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.

   The car jolted along the stony path.

Derived terms

• jolter
• jolthead
• jolting
• joltproof
• jolty

Translations

Noun

jolt (plural jolts)

1. An act of jolting.
2. A surprise or shock.
3. (slang) A long prison sentence.
4. (slang) A narcotic injection.

Coordinate terms

• (prison sentence): bit

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