jostle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.

   “[…] when the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor appeared in Fleet Street, he was as easily distinguished from the resident population as a Turk or a Lascar. […] Bullies jostled him into the kennel. Hackney coachmen splashed him from head to foot. […]”

2. fiil To move through by pushing and shoving.

   “Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.”

3. fiil To be close to or in physical contact with.

   “[…] the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders.”

4. fiil To contend or vie in order to acquire something.

   “Dick, who, in serious earnest, was supposed to have considerable natural talents for his profession, and whose vain and sanguine disposition never permitted him to doubt for a moment of ultimate success, threw himself headlong into the crowd which jostled and struggled for notice and preferment.”

5. fiil To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
6. isim The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove.
7. isim The action of a jostling crowd.