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   jostle

   /ˈdʒɒsl/

   verb

   • 1. push, elbow, or bump against (someone) roughly, typically in a crowd: "he was jostled by passengers rushing for the gates" Similar bump into/againstknock into/againstbang intocollide withcannon intoplough intojoltpushshoveelbowhustlemobinformal:barrel intopushthrustbargeshoveforcesqueezeelbowshoulderbulldozestruggleviejockeyscramblecrowd one anotherinformal:scrum
   • ▪ struggle or compete forcefully for: "a jumble of images jostled for attention"

   noun

   • 1. the action of jostling: "the jostle of shoppers"

   Word Origin late Middle Englishjustle, from just, an earlier form of joust. The original sense was ‘have sexual intercourse with’; current senses date from the mid 16th century.

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   Jostle means to come in contact or into collision, to make one's way by pushing and shoving, or to vie with in gaining an objective. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries for jostle.

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   Jostle means to push or knock someone roughly in a crowd to get more space or move past them. Learn how to use this verb in different contexts, see synonyms and translations, and listen to the pronunciation.

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   The verb jostle describes being bumped and pushed in a horde of people — or doing the bumping, like those at a concert who jostle their way to the front, and the people jostled out of their spots when the newcomers arrive.

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   5 meanings: 1. to bump or push (someone) roughly 2. to come or bring into contact 3. to force (one's way) by pushing 4. the act.... Click for more definitions.

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   What does jostling mean?

   • An experience in which jostling occurs. Being crowded or in a condition of jostling. To bump into or brush against while in motion. To move through by pushing and shoving. To be close to or in physical contact with. To contend or vie in order to acquire something. To pick or attempt to pick pockets.

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   What does it mean if people jostle you?

   • If people jostle you, they bump against you or push you in a way that annoys you, usually because you are in a crowd and they are trying to get past you. You get 2,000 people jostling each other and bumping into furniture. [VERB noun] We spent an hour jostling with the crowds as we did our shopping. [VERB preposition/adverb]

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   What is jostle verb?

   • Definition of jostle verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary jostle (somebody) to push roughly against somebody in a crowd The visiting president was jostled by angry demonstrators. People were jostling, arguing and complaining. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.

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   What is the etymology of Jostle?

   • Etymology: Originally justle, formed from jousten + -tle; from the joster, from iuxta, from iungo. Jostle generally refers to the act of pushing, elbowing, or bumping against someone roughly, usually in a crowd. It's a physical contact typically caused due to lack of sufficient space or in a hurry.

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   How does jostle work?

   • Jostle is a software package that is designed to partition unstructured meshes for use on distributed memory parallel computers. It uses an undirected graph model to represent the mesh and then uses graph partition to partition the mesh across computing nodes.

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   Why do people jostle for a new school?

   • Having theatrical expectations toyed with is one thing; having ontological ones jostled is quite another. Talk of a new school immediately led to disagreement and fighting, and a variety of people, in particular local elites, jostled to take advantage of possible new opportunities. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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   Jostle means to push or shove roughly, or to vie for an advantage or position. It can also mean to come into contact or exist in close proximity. See synonyms, translations and usage examples of jostle.

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