juggle
pronunciation
How to pronounce juggle in British English:
UK [ˈdʒʌgl]
How to pronounce juggle in American English:
US [ˈdʒʌɡəl]
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- Noun:
- the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression
- throwing and catching several objects simultaneously
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- Verb:
- influence by slyness
- manipulate by or as if by moving around components
- deal with simultaneously
- throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously
Word Origin
- juggle (v.)
- late 14c., "entertain by clowning or doing tricks," back-formation from juggler and in part from Old French jogler "play tricks, sing songs," from Late Latin ioculare (source of Italian giocolare), from Latin ioculari "to jest" (see jocular). Related: Juggled; juggling.
Example
- 1. Now with cloud services , we can juggle around our data between multiple gadgets .
- 2. When I was 12 , I learned to juggle on the side of a gravel hill with oranges .
- 3. One of them is 74-year-old zheng xueming , who can juggle a tennis ball on his knees for hours .
- 4. Why : at oxford university , researchers taught 24 people to juggle andfound that after six weeks this region had a higher density of white matter ( the fibers that let neurons communicate ) .
- 5. One more set of invitations and appointments to juggle with all of the others .