Jolt : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Jolt	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Jolt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jolt n a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers" Synonym(s): jolt, jar, jounce, shock an abrupt spasmodic movement Synonym(s): jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade v move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jolt, jar] disturb (someone's) composure; "The audience was jolted by the play"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jolt \Jolt\ (j[omac]lt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jolted}; p. pr. & vb. n. Jolting.] [Prob. fr. jole, joll, jowl, and originally 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jolt \Jolt\, v. t. To cause to shake with a sudden 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jolt \Jolt\, n. 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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
JOLT {Java Open Language Toolkit}