![]() To joggle is to shake slightly as, a passing touch joggles the desk on which one is writing. Rattling refers directly to the sound produced by shaking. A jarring motion is abruptly and very rapidly repeated through an exceedingly limited space the jolting of the carriage jars the windows. Jolting is a lifting from and letting down suddenly upon an unyielding surface as, a carriage jolts over a rough road. The pendulum of a clock may be said to swing, vibrate, or oscillate a steel bridge vibrates under the passage of a heavy train the term vibrate is also applied to molecular movements. A thing rocks that is sustained from below it swings if suspended from above, as a pendulum, or pivoted at the side, as a crane or a bridge-draw to oscillate is to swing with a smooth and regular returning motion a vibrating motion may be tremulous or jarring. A tree is " shaken with a mighty wind " a man slowly shakes his head. A thing is shaken which is subjected to short and abruptly checked movements, as forward and backward, up and down, from side to side, etc. ![]()
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