Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter J - Page 7
Jib (v. i.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
Jib (v. i.) To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk.
Jibber (n.) A horse that jibs.
Jibed (imp. & p. p.) of Jibe
Jibing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jibe
Jibe (v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.
Jibe (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.
Jibe (v. t.) To agree; to harmonize.
Jiffy (n.) A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy.
Jig (n.) A light, brisk musical movement.
Jig (n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
Jig (n.) A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.
Jig (n.) A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.
Jig (n.) A small machine or handy tool
Jig (n.) A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.
Jig (n.) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.
Jigged (imp. & p. p.) of Jig
Jigging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jig
Jig (v. t.) To sing to the tune of a jig.
Jig (v. t.) To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
Jig (v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.
Jig (n.) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
Jig (v. i.) To dance a jig; to skip about.
Jigger (n.) 計量杯，小玩意，[機] 盤車，小帆船；沙蚤（跳蚤的一種）；篩屑機，基格 [調酒] 杯 (1.5液啢) A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
Jigger (n.) One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging.
Jigger (n.) A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel.
Jigger (n.) A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.
Compare:
Potter's wheel (ph.) 製陶器用的橫式轉盤；拉坯輪車 In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping of round ceramic ware (known as throwing). The wheel may also be used during the process of trimming the excess body from dried ware, and for applying incised decoration or rings of colour. Use of the potter's wheel became widespread throughout the Old World but was unknown in the Pre-Columbian New World, where pottery was handmade by methods that included coiling and beating.
A potter's wheel may occasionally be referred to as a "potter's lathe". However, that term is better used for another kind of machine that is used for a different shaping process, turning, similar to that used for shaping of metal and wooden articles.
The techniques of jiggering and jolleying can be seen as extensions of the potter's wheel: in jiggering, a shaped tool is slowly brought down onto the plastic clay body that has been placed on top of the rotating plaster mould. The jigger tool shapes one face, the mould the other. The term is specific to the shaping of flat ware, such as plates, whilst a similar technique, jolleying, refers to the production of hollow ware, such as cups.
Jigger (n.) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
Jigger (n.) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
Jigger (n.) A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b).
Jigger (n.) A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i).
Jigger (n.) [ C ] (Container) 小量杯；一小量杯的酒 A small, round metal container used for measuring strong alcoholic drinks, or the amount of alcohol that this container holds.
Jigger (v.) [ T ] （尤指不公正或非法地）改變 To change something, especially unfairly or illegally.
// The ruling party jiggered the election results to stay in power.
Jigging (n.) The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water.
Jiggish (a.) Resembling, or suitable for, a jig, or lively movement.
Jiggish (a.) Playful; frisky.
Jiggle (v. i.) To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.
Jigjog (n.) A jolting motion; a jogging pace.
Jigjog (a.) Having a jolting motion.
Jihad (n.) （伊斯蘭教的）護教戰爭，聖戰；（為維護信仰而開展的）征戰；討伐異教徒，擁護運動 A religious war against infidels or Mohammedan heretics; also, any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief.
Jihad (n.) A holy war waged by Muslims against infidels [syn: {jihad}, {jehad}, {international jihad}].
Jihad (n.) A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal [syn: {jihad}, {jehad}].
Jihad (n.) (chiefly British variants: or less commonly Jehad) A holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also : a personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline.
Jihad (n.) A crusade for a principle or belief.
Jihadist (n.) （回教的）聖戰戰士；（伊斯蘭教的）聖戰戰士 A Muslim who advocates or participates in a jihad.
Jill (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill.
Jill-flirt (n.) A light, giddy, or wanton girl or woman. See Gill-flirt.
Jilt (n.) A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt.
Jilted (imp. & p. p.) of Jilt
Jilting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jilt
Jilt (v. t.) To cast off capriciously or unfeeling, as a lover; to deceive in love.
Jilt (v. i.) To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.
Jimcrack (n.) See Gimcrack.
Jim-crow (n.) A machine for bending or straightening rails.
Jim-crow (n.) A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.
Jimmies (n. pl. ) of Jimmy
Jimmy (n.) A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.
Jimp (a.) Neat; handsome; elegant. See Gimp.
Jimson weed () See Jamestown weed.
Jin (n.) Alt. of Jinn
Jinn (n.) See Jinnee.
Jingal (n.) A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel.
Jingle (v. i.) To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
Jingle (v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
Jingled (imp. & p. p.) of Jingle
Jingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jingle
Jingle (v. t.) To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
Jingle (n.) A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
Jingle (n.) That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
Jingle (n.) A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.
Jingler (n.) One who, or that which, jingles.
Jingling (n.) The act or process of producing a jingle; also, the sound itself; a chink.
Jinglingly (adv.) So as to jingle.
Jingoes (n. pl. ) of Jingo
Jingo (n.) 侵略主義，沙文主義；主張武力外交者 A word used as a jocular oath.
Jingo (n.) A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs.
Jingo (n.) (pl. Jingoes) A person who professes his or her patriotism loudly and excessively, favoring vigilant preparedness for war and an aggressive foreign policy; bellicose chauvinist.
Jingo (n.) (English History) A Conservative supporter of Disraeli's policy in the Near East during the period 1877–78.
Jingo (a.) 侵略性的 Of jingoes.
Jingo (a.) Characterized by jingoism.
Idioms:
By jingo! (adv.) (Informal) 哎呀 (一定) An exclamation used to emphasize the truth or importance of a foregoing statement, or to express astonishment, approval, etc.
// I know you can do it, by jingo!
Idioms:
By jingo! An exclamation of surprise.
Jingoism (n.) 主戰論；強硬外交政策；沙文主義；侵略主義；武力外交政策 The policy of the Jingoes, so called. See Jingo, 2.
Jinn (n. pl. ) of Jinnee
Jinnee (n.) A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms.
Jinny road () An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones.
Jinrikisha (n.) A small, two-wheeled, hooded vehicle drawn by one more men.
Jippo (n.) A waistcoat or kind of stays for women.
Joes (n. pl. ) of Jo
Jo (n.) A sweetheart; a darling.
Job (n.) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
Job (n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.
Job (n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
Job (n.) Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. [Colloq.]
Job (n.) A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job. [Colloq.]
Job (n.) A task, or the execution of a task; as, Michelangelo did a great job on the David statue.
Job (n.) (Computers) A task or coordinated set of tasks for a multitasking computer, submitted for processing as a single unit, usually for execution in background. See job control language.
Note: Job is used adjectively to signify doing jobs, used for jobs, or let on hire to do jobs; as, job printer; job master; job horse; job wagon, etc.
By the job, At a stipulated sum for the work, or for each piece of work done; -- distinguished from time work; as, the house was built by the job.
Job lot, A quantity of goods, usually miscellaneous, sold out of the regular course of trade, at a certain price for the whole; as, these articles were included in a job lot.
Job master, One who lest out horses and carriages for hire, as for family use. [Eng.]
Job printer, One who does miscellaneous printing, esp. circulars, cards, billheads, etc.
Odd job, Miscellaneous work of a petty kind; occasional work, of various kinds, or for various people.
To do a job on, To harm badly or destroy. [slang]
On the job, Alert; performing a responsibility well. [slang]
Jobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Job
Jobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Job
Job (v. t.) To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. -- L'Estrange.
Job (v. t.) To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. -- Moxon.
Job (v. t.) To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
Job (v. t.) (Com.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.
Job (v. t.) To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. -- Thackeray.
Job (v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
Authors of all work, to job for the season. -- Moore.
Job (v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
And judges job, and bishops bite the town. -- Pope.
Job (v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
Job (n.) The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.
Job's comforter. (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes.
Job's comforter. (b) A boil. [Colloq.]
Job's news, Bad news. -- Carlyle.
Job's+tears+(Bot.),+A+kind+of+grass+({Coix+Lacryma">Job's tears (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Coix Lacryma), with
hard, shining, pearly grains.
Job (n.) The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, job, line of work, line].
Job (n.) A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores" [syn: job, task, chore].
Job (n.) A workplace; as in the expression "on the job".
Job (n.) An object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right".
Job (n.) The responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth".
Job (n.) The performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job".
Job (n.) A damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair".
Job (n.) A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog" [syn: problem, job].
Job (n.) A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him.
Job (n.) Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without sespairing.
Job (n.) (Computer science) A program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
Job (n.) A book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply [syn: Job, Book of Job].
Job (n.) A crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" [syn: caper, job].
Job (v.) Profit privately from public office and official business.
Job (v.) Arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn: subcontract, farm out, job].
Job (v.) Work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks".
Job (v.) Invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating" [syn: speculate, job].
Job, () All activities involved in completing any project on a computer from start to finish. A job may involve several processes and several programs.
This term originates from a time when a user would manually submit a job as a deck of punched cards which would typically include source code interspersed with job control language instructions to guide phases of the job such as compilation, linking, execution and printing. (2005-03-16)
Job, () Persecuted, an Arabian patriarch who resided in the land of Uz (q.v.). While living in the midst of great prosperity, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a series of sore trials that fell upon him. Amid all his sufferings he maintained his integrity. Once more God visited him with the rich tokens of his goodness and even greater prosperity than he had enjoyed before. He survived the period of trial for one hundred and forty years, and died in a good old age, an example to succeeding generations of integrity (Ezek. 14:14, 20) and of submissive patience under the sorest calamities (James 5:11). His history, so far as it is known, is recorded in his book.
Job, He that weeps or cries.
JOB. By this term is understood among workmen, the whole of a thing which is to be done. In this sense it is employed in the Civil Code of Louisiana, art. 2727; "to build by plot, or to work by the job," says that article, "is to undertake a building for a certain stipulated price." See Durant. du Contr. de Louage, liv. 8, t. 8, n. 248, 263; Poth. Contr. de Louage, n. 392, 394 and Deviation.
Jobation (n.) A scolding; a hand, tedious reproof.
Jobber (n.) One who works by the job.
Jobber (n.) A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber.
Jobber (n.) One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers.
Jobber (n.) One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.
Jobbernowl (n.) A blockhead.
Jobbery (n.) The act or practice of jobbing.
Jobbery (n.) Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery.