different between jolt vs watt

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English jollen (“to stagger, knock, batter”), itself perhaps a variant of Middle English chollen (“to strike, juggle, do tricks”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??lt/, IPA^(key): /d???lt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?o?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt, -??lt

Verb

jolt (third-person singular simple present jolts, present participle jolting, simple past and past participle jolted)

1. (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.

   The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.

2. (transitive) To knock sharply
3. (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert

   I jolted her out of complacency.

4. (transitive) To shock emotionally.

   Her untimely death jolted us all.

5. (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.

   The car jolted along the stony path.

Derived terms

• jolter
• jolthead
• jolting
• joltproof
• jolty

Translations

Noun

jolt (plural jolts)

1. An act of jolting.
2. A surprise or shock.
3. (slang) A long prison sentence.
4. (slang) A narcotic injection.

Coordinate terms

• (prison sentence): bit

Translations

References

English

Etymology

Named after Scottish engineer James Watt. For the surname, see Watt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?t/
• (US) enPR: wät, IPA^(key): /w?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophones: wat, wot, what (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

watt (plural watts)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• watt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ATWT, at. wt., twat

Asturian

Etymology

From English watt

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Synonyms

• vatiu

Czech

Noun

watt m

1. watt (unit of power)

Further reading

• watt in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• watt in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t], [??t]
• Homophones: wad, wat

Noun

watt m (plural watts, diminutive wattje n)

1. watt

French

Etymology

From English watt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wat/
• Homophone: ouate

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt

Further reading

• “watt” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Noun

watt m (plural [please provide])

1. watt

Synonyms

• vatio

Hungarian

Etymology

From English watt, named after Scottish engineer James Watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?t?]
• Hyphenation: watt
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

watt (plural wattok)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• watt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From English watt

Noun

watt m (invariable)

1. watt

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.

Noun

watt m (definite singular watten, indefinite plural watt, definite plural wattene)

1. a watt (SI unit of power, symbol W)

Derived terms

• kilowatt
• megawatt
• wattsekund

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.

Noun

watt m (definite singular watten, indefinite plural watt, definite plural wattane)

1. a watt (as above)

Derived terms

• wattsekund

Portuguese

Etymology

From English watt

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Romanian

Etymology

From French watt.

Noun

watt m (plural wa?i)

1. watt

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• vatio

Etymology

From English watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wat/, [?wat?]

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt

Swedish

Etymology

Named after Scottish engineer James Watt; for the surname see Watt.

Noun

watt c

1. watt