English Dictionary

jostle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈd͡ʒɒs.əl/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 古風 俗語

(transitive, intransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside. / (intransitive) To move through by pushing and shoving.

日本語の意味

動いている途中で何かにぶつかったり、軽く触れたりする / 押しのけるようにして、行き来する・通り抜ける

Commuters jostled each other as they hurried onto the crowded train.

満員の電車に急いで乗り込むとき、乗客たちはお互いに押し合った。

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.

Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which by accident or choice men pursue, and though they jostle against each other, for men of the same profession are seldom friends, yet there is a much greater number of their fellow-creatures with whom they never clash. But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals.

意味（2）

(intransitive) 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.

意味（3）

(transitive) 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.

意味（4）

(intransitive) 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.

意味（5）

(dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.

jostles （ present singular third-person ）

jostling （ participle present ）

jostled （ participle past ）

jostled （ past ）