jostle

«jostle» in Mova's school 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 →

2) To compete hard for something: players jostling for a place in the team. tree →

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

• People jostled to get onto the train. tree →
• The animals jostled each other on the river bank. tree →
• Please don't jostle in the lunch queue. tree →
• The ducklings jostled for the bread. tree →
• Fans jostled to see the singer. tree →
• Three teams are jostling for the top spot. tree →
• I was jostled and dropped my ice cream. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «jostle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.