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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

jog trot
noun an easy gait of a horse; midway between a walk and a trot

jogging
noun running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise

joggle
jiggle noun a slight irregular shaking motion

Johann Bernoulli
Jean Bernoulli noun Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)

Johann Gottfried von Herder
noun German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803)

Johann Muller
Regiomontanus noun German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)

Johann Strauss
noun Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king` (1825-1899)

Johannes Peter Muller
noun German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)

John
Gospel According to John noun the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament

John
John Lackland noun youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)

John Barrymore
noun United States actor; son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1882-1942)

John Bunyan
noun English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim`s Progress (1628-1688)

John Chapman
Johnny Appleseed noun United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)

John Churchill
Duke of Marlborough noun English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722)

John Constable
noun English landscape painter (1776-1837)

John Doe
Joe Bloggs noun a hypothetical average man

John Dory
Zeus faber noun European dory

John Ford
noun United States film maker (1896-1973)

John Haldane
John Scott Haldane noun Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)

John Hancock
noun a person`s own signature

John Herschel
Sir John Herschel noun English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)

John L. Lewis
John Llewelly Lewis noun United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)

John M. Browning
John Moses Browning noun United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)

John Marshall
noun United States jurist; as chief justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of United States constitutional law (1755-1835)

John Mercer
noun British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866)

John Mitchell
noun United States labor leader; president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898 to 1908 (1870-1919)

John Paul Jones
noun American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)

John Quincy Adams
President Adams 1 President John Quincy Adams noun 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)

John Reed
noun United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)

John Rock
noun United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

John Ross
Sir John Ross noun Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)

John Smith
Captain John Smith noun English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)

John Tuzo Wilson
noun Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993)

John Webster
noun English playwright (1580-1625)

John Wilkes
noun English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797)

johnnycake
johnny cake noun cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)

Johns Hopkins
noun a university in Baltimore

Johns Hopkins
noun United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)

Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson noun 36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)

joie de vivre
noun a keen enjoyment of living

join
fall in verb become part of; become a member of a group or organization; `He joined the Communist Party as a young man`

join
noun a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; `let C be the union of the sets A and B`

join battle
verb engage in a conflict; `The battle over health care reform was joined`

joined
united adjective of or relating to two people who are married to each other

joinery
noun fine woodwork done by a joiner

joining
connection noun the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); `the joining of hands around the table`; `there was a connection via the internet`

joint
adjective involving both houses of a legislature; `a joint session of Congress`

Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs noun the executive agency that advises the President on military questions; composed of the chiefs of the United States Army and the United States Navy and the United States Air Force and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps

Joint Direct Attack Munition
JDAM noun a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs

joint probability
noun the probability of two events occurring together

joint resolution
noun a resolution passed by both houses of Congress which becomes legally binding when signed by the chief executive (or passed over the executive`s veto)

joint return
noun a return filed by a husband and wife

joint venture
noun a venture by a partnership or conglomerate designed to share risk or expertise; `a joint venture between the film companies to produce TV shows`

joint-stock company
noun a company (usually unincorporated) which has the capital of its members pooled in a common fund; transferable shares represent ownership interest; shareholders are legally liable for all debts of the company

jointed
adjective having joints or jointed segments;

jointer
jointer plane noun a long carpenter`s plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together

jointly
collectively adverb in conjunction with; combined; `our salaries put together couldn`t pay for the damage`; `we couldn`t pay for the damages with all our salaries put together`

jointworm
noun larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains

joist
noun beam used to support floors or roofs

joke
gag noun a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; `he told a very funny joke`; `he knows a million gags`; `thanks for the laugh`; `he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest`; `even a schoolboy`s jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point`

joker
noun a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester

joker
noun a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; `some joker is blocking the driveway`

jokingly
jestingly adverb in jest; `I asked him jokingly whether he thought he could drive the Calcutta-Peshawar express`

Joliot-Curie
noun French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956)

jollity
jolliness noun feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor

jolly
noun a happy party

jolly along
jolly up verb cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful; `She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee`

jolly boat
jolly noun a yawl used by a ship`s sailors for general work

jolt
jar noun a sudden impact; `the door closed with a jolt`

jolted
shaken adjective disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; `retrieved his named from her jolted memory`; `the accident left her badly shaken`

Jonah
Book of Jonah noun a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale

jonah
noun a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

Jonah crab
Cancer borealis noun large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America

Jonathan
noun red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw

Jonathan Trumbull
noun American Revolutionary leader who as governor of Connecticut provided supplies for the Continental Army (1710-1785)

Jones
noun one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)

Joplin
noun United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (1943-1970)

Jordan almond
noun an almond covered with a sugar coating that is hard and flavored and colored

Jordanella
genus Jordanella noun flagfishes

Jordanian
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Jordan or its people; `Jordanian archeological sites`

jorum
noun a large drinking bowl

Joseph
noun leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops (1840-1904)

Joseph Black
noun British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

Joseph Heller
noun United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999)

Joseph Hooker
Fighting Joe Hooker noun United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)

Joseph Lister
Baron Lister noun English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912)

Joseph Mallord William Turner
noun English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)

Joseph Smith
noun religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844)

Joshua
Josue noun a book in the Old Testament describing how Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan (the Promised Land) after the death of Moses

joss
noun a Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol

joss house
noun a Chinese temple or shrine for idol worship

jostle
jostling noun the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing)

jot down
jot verb write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of

jotter
noun a small notebook for rough notes

jotting
jot noun a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note

jounce
verb move up and down repeatedly

journal
noun the part of the axle contained by a bearing

journal bearing
noun the bearing of a journal

journal box
noun metal housing for a journal bearing

journalese
noun the style in which newspapers are written