Jostle
/ˈdʒɑːsl/verb
To push, elbow, or bump against someone roughly, typically in a crowd.
I had to jostle my way through the crowded market.
Often appears as...
- jostle for position
- jostle through a crowd
verb
To compete eagerly with someone in order to achieve something.
Several companies are jostling for the contract.
Often appears as...
- jostle for attention
- jostle for recognition
noun
The act of pushing, elbowing, or bumping against someone.
The jostle of the crowd made it hard to move forward.
Often appears as...
- a jostle of people
- in the jostle
verb
To push, elbow, or bump against someone roughly, typically in a crowd.
I had to jostle my way through the crowded market.
Often appears as...
- jostle for position
- jostle through a crowd
verb
To compete eagerly with someone in order to achieve something.
Several companies are jostling for the contract.
Often appears as...
- jostle for attention
- jostle for recognition
noun
The act of pushing, elbowing, or bumping against someone.
The jostle of the crowd made it hard to move forward.
Often appears as...
- a jostle of people
- in the jostle
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Movement
Used to describe rough or competitive movements in confined spaces.
Tourists had to jostle by the souvenir stalls.
Pro Tip 2/3Slight Aggression
Implies a level of assertiveness without intending harm.
Fans jostled at the stadium gates.
Pro Tip 3/3Common in Crowds
Often happens in situations with many people like events or public transportation.
Passengers jostled on the crowded bus.
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Maria Bezaitis: The...
insisting to your detriment on a very rigid notion of who belongs and who does not, whether you're the government protecting social institutions like marriage and restricting access of those institutions to the few, whether you're a teenager in her bedroom who's trying to jostle her relations with her parents,
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How Quantum Biology...
from the random thermodynamic jostling of atoms and molecules in inanimate matter of the same complexity. In fact, living matter seems to behave in this order, in a structure, just like inanimate matter cooled down to near absolute zero, where quantum effects play a very important role.
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Environmentalism on the...
here and they know what they're getting there's no variables with how much kind of catch today it's farm protection video issues so that you know stingrays and things like that that would naturally want to come after an oyster can't get to it uh-huh and with this jostling around of
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Making waves: The power...
and pretend that your molecular self can plunge deep down into the water column. In these colder depths, the comparative lack of solar warmth makes water molecules sluggish, meaning they can sit quite still at high concentrations. No jostling here. But seeking relief
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The history of human...
Or maybe you felt all of these things. There are some emotions which wash the world in a single color, like the terror felt as a car skids. But more often, our emotions crowd and jostle together until it is actually quite hard to tell them apart.
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"Good" and "bad" are...
and so she told me we needed to wake her neurology up. One day she leaned over my daughter's body, took her tiny shoulders, jostled her and said, "Wake up! Wake up!" We had a few therapists visit our house that first year,
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Safari Live - Day 368 PIPE...
his footfalls as well oh sorry I'm trying to control my excitement here as well but the situation with these impalas like I mentioned they're all males which kind of helps in the way that they'll sometimes jostle between
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Lockdown Around the...
this real how can I be standing here without being disturbed or jostled India's lockdown is one of the strictest in the world parks are closed you're not allowed to go for walks there's no
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Stories that tell...
a moment of wonder so I like to think of stories as living organisms all jostling for people's increasingly divided tension in time as an interactive designer it's my job to help stories
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Why Are These Fish...
Drilling herself into the sand is the cue for the male grunion to move in. They wrap themselves around her, jostling to fertilise the eggs.
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Maria Bezaitis: The...
insisting to your detriment on a very rigid notion of who belongs and who does not, whether you're the government protecting social institutions like marriage and restricting access of those institutions to the few, whether you're a teenager in her bedroom who's trying to jostle her relations with her parents,
Video examples
How Quantum Biology...
from the random thermodynamic jostling of atoms and molecules in inanimate matter of the same complexity. In fact, living matter seems to behave in this order, in a structure, just like inanimate matter cooled down to near absolute zero, where quantum effects play a very important role.
Video examples
Environmentalism on the...
here and they know what they're getting there's no variables with how much kind of catch today it's farm protection video issues so that you know stingrays and things like that that would naturally want to come after an oyster can't get to it uh-huh and with this jostling around of
Video examples
Making waves: The power...
and pretend that your molecular self can plunge deep down into the water column. In these colder depths, the comparative lack of solar warmth makes water molecules sluggish, meaning they can sit quite still at high concentrations. No jostling here. But seeking relief
Video examples
The history of human...
Or maybe you felt all of these things. There are some emotions which wash the world in a single color, like the terror felt as a car skids. But more often, our emotions crowd and jostle together until it is actually quite hard to tell them apart.
Video examples
"Good" and "bad" are...
and so she told me we needed to wake her neurology up. One day she leaned over my daughter's body, took her tiny shoulders, jostled her and said, "Wake up! Wake up!" We had a few therapists visit our house that first year,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 368 PIPE...
his footfalls as well oh sorry I'm trying to control my excitement here as well but the situation with these impalas like I mentioned they're all males which kind of helps in the way that they'll sometimes jostle between
Video examples
Lockdown Around the...
this real how can I be standing here without being disturbed or jostled India's lockdown is one of the strictest in the world parks are closed you're not allowed to go for walks there's no
Video examples
Stories that tell...
a moment of wonder so I like to think of stories as living organisms all jostling for people's increasingly divided tension in time as an interactive designer it's my job to help stories
Video examples
Why Are These Fish...
Drilling herself into the sand is the cue for the male grunion to move in. They wrap themselves around her, jostling to fertilise the eggs.
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Andrew Flintoff
English Entertainer
There have always been two people jostling for control of my life, two totally opposite characters. The first one is super-confident, bulletproof, a showman, and an extrovert. He tries to make people laugh, messes about, gets into trouble, shrugs it off. The other character is withdrawn and reflective.
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Robin Sloan
American Author
I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and time, all framed by a mosaic of other apps, other work, other entertainment... so even when I really am paying attention to something on the web, there's this peripheral haze.
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Wayne Shorter
American Musician
There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.
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Matt Groening
American Cartoonist
I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.
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Takashi Miike
Japanese Director
Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It's like that except we don't get awards every day in our sports day.
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Monty Don
English Celebrity
Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant needs to transform your affections from admiration to affection - charm.
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Lady Gregory
Irish Dramatist
There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
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Frederick William Robertson
English Clergyman
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
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Shweta Tripathi
Indian Actress
I always knew from books and shows that the lives of circus artists are not easy, but spending time and learning from them made me realise the amount of effort they put in and how they constantly jostle between life and death.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Andrew Flintoff
English Entertainer
There have always been two people jostling for control of my life, two totally opposite characters. The first one is super-confident, bulletproof, a showman, and an extrovert. He tries to make people laugh, messes about, gets into trouble, shrugs it off. The other character is withdrawn and reflective.
Quote examples
Robin Sloan
American Author
I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and time, all framed by a mosaic of other apps, other work, other entertainment... so even when I really am paying attention to something on the web, there's this peripheral haze.
Quote examples
Wayne Shorter
American Musician
There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.
Quote examples
Matt Groening
American Cartoonist
I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.
Quote examples
Takashi Miike
Japanese Director
Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It's like that except we don't get awards every day in our sports day.
Quote examples
Monty Don
English Celebrity
Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant needs to transform your affections from admiration to affection - charm.
Quote examples
Lady Gregory
Irish Dramatist
There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
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Frederick William Robertson
English Clergyman
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Quote examples
Shweta Tripathi
Indian Actress
I always knew from books and shows that the lives of circus artists are not easy, but spending time and learning from them made me realise the amount of effort they put in and how they constantly jostle between life and death.
Quote examples
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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