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# jostle

«jostle» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To push and bump against people in a crowd** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (jostle, jostles, jostled, jostling); noun (a jostle)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To push and bump against people in a crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#m1)

2) To compete hard for something: players jostling for a place in the team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday and safety: crowds jostle at the school gate or on the bus; take care on stairs. Stories: busy markets, crowds of animals. Figurative: teams jostling for first place. In Alice in Wonderland, the animals crowd and jostle around Alice after the Pool of Tears.

### examples

- The chariots rush madly in the streets, they jostle one against another in the broad places; the appearance of them is like torches, they run to and fro like the lightnings. (Prophets NAM.2.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#x1)
- People jostled to get onto the train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#x2)
- The animals jostled each other on the river bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#x3)
- Please don't jostle in the lunch queue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#x4)
- The ducklings jostled for the bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#x5)
- Fans jostled to see the singer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#x6)
- Three teams are jostling for the top spot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#x7)
- I was jostled and dropped my ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#x8)

### note

Silent t: say «JOS-ul». Regular verb: jostled, jostling. Similar: shove, push, elbow, barge.

### In the corpora

- [Taffy asks for a little space between words so they will not jostle, and she reads the whole message out sound by sound.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jostle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.