Difference between Tug and Jerk

What is the difference between Tug and Jerk?

Tug as a noun is a sudden powerful pull while Jerk as a noun is a sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.

Tug

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a sudden powerful pull a tugboat

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to pull or drag with great effort to pull hard repeatedly to tow by tugboat

Example sentence: I want music to move me, and I don't think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It's the tug between atonal and tonal which makes music poignant.

Jerk

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered or disagreeable, and often not very intelligent.The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.A rich, spicy Jamaican marinadeMeat cured by jerking; charqui.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.To masturbate.To beat, to hit.To throw.To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

Example sentence: Every time I'm a good guy in a movie, which is the 'Marine,' people are like, 'Wow, you can play endearing. You can play kind and nice and sweet but yet hardcore.' And I'm like, 'Yeah. Just because The Miz is a jerk and an egotistical maniac doesn't mean that there isn't a softer side to Mike Mizanin.'

We hope you now know whether to use Tug or Jerk in your sentence.

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