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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jolt
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sth screeches/shudders/skids/jolts to a halt (=a vehicle stops very quickly and noisily – used for emphasis)
▪ The car skidded to a halt and three men jumped out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Everyone was alarmed when the elevator jolted to a halt.
▪ He ran down the hill, the backpack jolting from side to side on his back.
▪ Our coach jolted and stopped. Then it started again.
▪ Their house had been jolted right off its foundation.
▪ Vic was jolted awake by at least five explosions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Father Gannon added, his sudden pronged laughter jolting up her spine.
▪ He thought it was a twig breaking but then something jolted his memory.
▪ It was not the phone that jolted Polly so completely from her dreams, but fear.
▪ Long before morning, she was jolted awake by sounds outside her room.
▪ My lurching heart jolts me awake.
▪ Only to have your memory jolted by a loud and indignant beep.
▪ Second, the other Lakers will be jolted from their funk by the appearance of Magic.
▪ The car jolted over the rubble past a machine, and the panic ceased.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
▪ And that was when, for the second time, Ronni felt a fierce jolt inside her.
▪ Harry felt a jolt of breath pump out of his mouth.
▪ Sarella felt a jolt through her entire body at the sight of him.
▪ Suddenly, I feel an internal jolt, a direct hit to the core of the boat.
▪ Suddenly she felt a jolt and her body was submerged underneath the mud.
give
▪ But in a way what happened last season gave us a necessary jolt.
▪ Still, the thought gave me quite a jolt of pleasure.
▪ The world economy was given a deflationary jolt.
▪ Each of us carries an unreliable ankle for instance, and Tony had just given his a jolt.
▪ She says before you were aware of it but until it happens, it really gives you such a jolt.
▪ They gave him this little jolt of fun.
▪ It gave him a nasty jolt, for a moment thinking it the very same dagger used to kill Lord Westbourne.
receive
▪ What is in some ways ironic is that a naive notion of necessity had already received a severe jolt from David Hume.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a jolt of caffeine
▪ electric jolts
▪ The tax laws may be a severe jolt to the economy.
▪ The train stopped with a sudden jolt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in a way what happened last season gave us a necessary jolt.
▪ But then, recovering from the jolt, he begins to think not.
▪ He longed for each ice-cold burning jolt in his stomach.
▪ Her accusation in front of her family had made him coldly furious, she realised with a jolt.
▪ The query seems like a jolt of reality, following stories Mrs Clinton has been telling of her college days.
▪ The world economy was given a deflationary jolt.
▪ What is in some ways ironic is that a naive notion of necessity had already received a severe jolt from David Hume.
▪ With a jolt of self-knowledge Caroline registered the same feeling of dismay as at that cool withdrawal after their picnic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jolt

Jolt \Jolt\, v. t.

  1. To cause to move with a sudden motion, especially an up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.

  2. To stun or shock a person physically, as with a blow or electrical shock; as, the earthquake jolted him out of bed.

  3. To stun or shock or change the mental state of (a person) suddenly, as if with a blow; as, the sight of the house on fire jolted him into action; his mother's early death jolted his idyllic happiness.

Jolt

Jolt \Jolt\, n.

  1. A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.

    The first jolt had like to have shaken me out.
    --Swift.

  2. A physical or psychological shock; see jolt v. t. senses 2 and 3; as, the stock market plunge was a big jolt to his sense of affluence; he touched the casing of the ungrounded motor and got a jolt from a short inside.

  3. Something which causes a jolt[2]; as, the bad news was a jolt.

Jolt

Jolt \Jolt\ (j[=o]lt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jolting.] [Prob. fr. jole, joll, jowl, and orig. meaning, to knock on the head. See Jowl.] To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jolt

1590s, perhaps from Middle English jollen, chollen "to knock, to batter" (early 15c.), or an alteration of obsolete jot (v.) "to jostle" (1520s). Perhaps related to earlier jolt head "a big, stupid head" (1530s). Figurative sense of "to startle, surprise" is from 1872. Related: Jolted; jolting.

jolt

1590s, "a knock," from jolt (v.). Meaning "jarring shock" is from 1630s.

Wiktionary
jolt

n. 1 An act of jolting. 2 A surprise or shock. 3 (context slang English) A long prison sentence. 4 (context slang English) A narcotic injection. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To push or shake abruptly and roughly. 2 (context transitive English) To knock sharply; to deal a blow to. 3 (context transitive English) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert; as, to jolt someone out of complacency 4 (context transitive English) To shock emotionally. 5 (context intransitive English) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.

WordNet
jolt
  1. n. a sudden impact; "the door closed with a jolt" [syn: jar, jounce]

  2. an abrupt spasmodic movement [syn: jerk, jerking]

  3. v. move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jar]

  4. disturb (someone's) composure; "The audience was jolted by the play"

Wikipedia
Jolt

Jolt may refer to:

  • Jolt Award, an award in the software industry
  • Jolt Cola, a soft drink
    • Jolt gum, a caffeinated chewing gum from the makers of Jolt Cola
  • Jolt Online Gaming, a game server host, game network and broadband internet service provider
  • Jolt (physics) or surge, in physics, the third derivative of position with regard to time
  • Jolt (comics), a teen heroine from Marvel Comics
  • Jolt (Transformers), a transformer in the movie Transformers:_Revenge_of_the_Fallen
  • Jolt, a DC Comics character, and member of The Blasters
As an acronym
  • Harvard Journal of Law & Technology
  • North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology
Jolt (comics)

Jolt (Helen "Hallie" Takahama) is a fictional character, a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as a member of the Thunderbolts and Young Allies.

Jolt (Transformers)

Jolt is the name of five fictional characters in the Transformers series. The original Jolt was a Decepticon hot rod with a sword who was introduced in 1994. Portrayed in a variety of forms, the most recent version of Jolt is a heroic Autobot who appeared in the 2009 film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Usage examples of "jolt".

Crack, crack, crack, their trigger hands in constant motion, ejecting old shells, chambering fresh ones, not really aiming as they yanked off their bullets, the recoils jolting them.

The road to his house was nothing more than a stretch of dirt and gravel with a ribbon of grass down the middle, and his jeep sounded like an army tank as it jolted all over the place.

I still went among them in safety, because no jolt in the downward glide had released the increasing charge of explosive animalism that ousted the human day by day.

The Warming had absorbed all our energies, and the great shock of the Happy Anniversary flash-bombing in 2033 had jolted us even more.

He was very handsome and self-assured and Auger recognised him with a jolt.

He flew toward a Bludger that was flying straight at him and then swung back, grunting loudly, feeling a jolt move through him as he struck it, hearing the ringing sound of metal on metal as one of the iron bands on the bat hit the Bludger.

They seemed to have woken up now, and as his team scored their fourth goal, still holding the English team to one-hundred, Harry was somewhat shocked to feel a jolt as a Bludger collided with his broom twigs, making him fly crazily for a moment until he grasped the handle with determination and zoomed straight up, to shake the wobbles out of it.

Aubrey forgot his resolution not to hit a smaller man, and also calling upon his patron saints--the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World-- he delivered a smashing slog which hit the bookseller in the chest and jolted him half across the alley.

Tally began to anticipate the sickening jolt of her bungee jacket pulling her up.

Whereupon, casting a look of leisurely scorn toward the guard coming up in the last beams of day, the Baron shrugged his huge shoulders to an altitude expressing the various contemptuous shades of feudal coxcombry, stuck one leather-ruffled arm in his side, and jolted off at an easy pace.

This whole mess harked back to his stupid slip--calling her Lanni as the darned alarm jolted him awake.

Whenever I made a direct hit, the guard gave me a jolt through the detainment cuff on my left wrist.

Which quickly turned into cries of pain as their detainment cuffs started jolting them.

Part of it he had endured jolting along in a cart behind a drom, and much had been spent on foot.

The passengers hung onto the seats in front of them and, on a number of occasions, Eggy was jolted against the guard.