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# jostle

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

«jostle» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To push and bump against people in a crowd. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jostle/#m1)
2. To compete hard for something: players jostling for a place in the team. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jostle/#m2)

### 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

- People jostled to get onto the train. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jostle/#x1)
- The animals jostled each other on the river bank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jostle/#x2)
- Please don't jostle in the lunch queue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jostle/#x3)
- The ducklings jostled for the bread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jostle/#x4)
- Fans jostled to see the singer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jostle/#x5)
- Three teams are jostling for the top spot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jostle/#x6)
- I was jostled and dropped my ice cream. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jostle/#x7)

### Note

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

## In Jewish tradition

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «jostle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jostle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«jostle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/jostle.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «jostle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/jostle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«jostle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/jostle.html) on Mova free.