job : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: job	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for job
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
job n the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" Synonym(s): occupation, business, job, line of work, line 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" Synonym(s): job, task, chore a workplace; as in the expression "on the job"; an object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right" the responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth" the performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job" a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair" 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" Synonym(s): problem, job a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply Synonym(s): Job, Book of Job a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" Synonym(s): caper, job v profit privately from public office and official business arranged for contracted work to be done by others Synonym(s): subcontract, farm out, job work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" 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" Synonym(s): speculate, job
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Job \Job\, n. [Prov. E. job, gob, n., a small piece of wood, v., to stab, strike; cf. E. gob, gobbet; perh. influenced by E. chop to cut off, to mince. See {Gob}.] 1. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Job \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. (b) A boil. [Colloq.] {Job's news}, bad news. --Carlyle. {Job's tears} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Coix Lacryma}), with hard, shining, pearly grains.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Job \Job\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jobbing}.] 1. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. --L'Estrange. 2. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. --Moxon. 3. To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Job \Job\, v. i. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Job, KY Zip code(s): 41224 Job, WV Zip code(s): 26296
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
job All the activities involved in completing any project on a computer from start to finish. A job may involve several processes and several programs. This term is rather old fashioned and harks back to the days of {batch} processing where a user would submit his job as a deck of {punched card}s which would typically include {source code} interspersed with {job control language} instructions to guide the various phases of the job such as compilation, linking, execution and printing. (1995-05-07)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Job, he that weeps or cries