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   jab
         n 1: a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me
               with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion
               with his fist" [syn: {jab}, {jabbing}, {poke}, {poking},
               {thrust}, {thrusting}]
         2: a quick short straight punch
         3: the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or
            elbow; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs" [syn: {dig},
            {jab}]
         v 1: poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her
               ribs" [syn: {jab}, {prod}, {stab}, {poke}, {dig}]
         2: strike or punch with quick and short blows
         3: stab or pierce; "he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket
            knife" [syn: {stab}, {jab}]

English Dictionary: jab	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jaffa n a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950 Synonym(s): Jaffa, Joppa, Yafo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jahvey n a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH Synonym(s): Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jap n (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent Synonym(s): Jap, Nip
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jape n 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" Synonym(s): joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Java n an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; "he ordered a cup of coffee" Synonym(s): coffee, java a platform-independent object-oriented programming language
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jeep n a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain [syn: jeep, landrover]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jehovah n a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH Synonym(s): Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God Synonym(s): Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
JHVH n a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH Synonym(s): Yahweh, YHWH, Yahwe, Yahveh, YHVH, Yahve, Wahvey, Jahvey, Jahweh, Jehovah, JHVH
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jib n any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v refuse to comply Synonym(s): resist, balk, baulk, jib shift from one side of the ship to the other; "The sail jibbed wildly" Synonym(s): jibe, gybe, jib, change course
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jibe n an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" Synonym(s): shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe v be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" Synonym(s): match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree Antonym(s): disaccord, disagree, discord shift from one side of the ship to the other; "The sail jibbed wildly" Synonym(s): jibe, gybe, jib, change course
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jiffy n a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" Synonym(s): blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jive n a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz Synonym(s): swing, swing music, jive v dance to jive music; dance the jive
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 WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Joppa n a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950 Synonym(s): Jaffa, Joppa, Yafo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Jove n (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus Synonym(s): Jupiter, Jove
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
JV n a college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team Synonym(s): junior varsity, JV
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jab \Jab\, v. t. [Cf. {Job}.] To thrust; to stab; to punch. See {Job}, v. t. [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jab \Jab\, n. A thrust or stab. [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yahweh \Yah"weh\, Yahwe \Yah"we\, n. Also Jahveh \Jah"veh\, Jahve \Jah"ve\, etc. A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated {Jehovah} in the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or {Yahwe} is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yahweh \Yah"weh\, Yahwe \Yah"we\, n. Also Jahveh \Jah"veh\, Jahve \Jah"ve\, etc. A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated {Jehovah} in the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or {Yahwe} is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jape \Jape\, v. i. [Prob. from the same source as gab,influenced by F. japper to yelp. See {Gab} to deceive.] To jest; to play tricks; to jeer. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jape \Jape\, v. t. To mock; to trick. --Chaucer. I have not been putting a jape upon you. --Sir W. Scott. The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape. --W. Besant.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Java \Ja"va\, n. 1. One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands. 2. Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java. {Java cat} (Zo[94]l.), the musang. {Java sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a species of finch ({Padda oryzivora}), native of Java, but very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also {ricebird}, and {paddy bird}. In the male the upper parts are glaucous gray, the head and tail black, the under parts delicate rose, and the cheeks white. The bill is large and red. A white variety is also kept as a cage bird.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jay \Jay\, n. [F. geai, OF. gai, jaj, perh. fr. OHG. g[be]hi. Cf. {Gay}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to {Garrulus}, {Cyanocitta}, and allied genera. They are allied to the crows, but are smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, and usually have a crest. Note: The European jay ({Garrulus glandarius}) is a large and handsomely colored species, having the body pale reddish brown, lighter beneath; tail and wing quills blackish; the primary coverts barred with bright blue and black; throat, tail coverts, and a large spot on the wings, white. Called also {jay pie}, {Jenny jay}, and {k[91]}. The common blue jay ({Cyanocitta cristata}.), and the related species, are brilliantly colored, and have a large erectile crest. The California jay ({Aphelocoma Californica}), the Florida jay ({A. Floridana}), and the green jay ({Xanthoura luxuosa}), of Texas and Mexico, are large, handsome, crested species. The Canada jay ({Perisoreus Canadensis}), and several allied species, are much plainer and have no crest. See {Blue jay}, and {Whisky jack}. {Jay thrush} (Zo[94]l.), any one several species of Asiatic singing birds, of the genera {Garrulax}, {Grammatoptila}, and related genera of the family {Crateropodid[91]}; as, the white-throated jay thrush ({G. albogularis}), of India.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jehovah \Je*ho"vah\, n. [Heb. usually y[ecr]h[omac]v[be]h (with the vowel points of [acr]d[omac]n[be]i Lord), sometimes (to avoid repetition) y[ecr]h[omac]vih (with the vowel points of [ecr]l[omac]h[c6]m God); but only the four Heb, consonants yhvh are conceded to be certainly known.] A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the [bd]ineffable name[b8] of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yahweh \Yah"weh\, Yahwe \Yah"we\, n. Also Jahveh \Jah"veh\, Jahve \Jah"ve\, etc. A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated {Jehovah} in the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or {Yahwe} is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
IHVH \IHVH\ [Written also {JHVH}, {YHVH}.] A transliteration of the four constants forming the Hebrew tetragrammaton or [bd]incommunicable name[b8] of the Supreme Being, which in latter Jewish tradition is not pronounced save with the vowels of adonai or elohim, so that the true pronunciation is lost. Note: Numerous attempts have been made to represent the supposed original form of the word, as Jahaveh, Jahvaj, Jahve, Jahveh, Yahve, Yahveh, Yahwe, Yahweh, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jib \Jib\, v. i. [Connected with jibe; cf. OF. giber to shake.] To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk. [Written also {jibb}.] [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jib \Jib\, n. [Named from its shifting from side to side. See {Jib}, v. i.., {Jibe}.] 1. (Naut.) A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc. 2. (Mach.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended. {Jib boom} (Naut.), a spar or boom which serves as an extension of the bowsprit. It is sometimes extended by another spar called the flying jib boom. [Written also {gib boom}.] {Jib crane} (Mach.), a crane having a horizontal jib on which a trolley moves, bearing the load. {Jib door} (Arch.), a door made flush with the wall, without dressings or moldings; a disguised door. {Jib header} (Naut.), a gaff-topsail, shaped like a jib; a jib-headed topsail. {Jib topsail} (Naut.), a small jib set above and outside of all the other jibs. {The cut of one's jib}, one's outward appearance. [Colloq.] --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jib \Jib\, n. 1. One that jibs, or balks; a jibber. 2. A stationary condition; a standstill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jib \Jib\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Jibbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jibbing}.] Also Jibb \Jibb\ [Cf. {Jib} a sail, {Gybe}.] (Chiefly Naut.) To shift, or swing round, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jib \Jib\, v. i. [Connected with jibe; cf. OF. giber to shake.] To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk. [Written also {jibb}.] [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jib \Jib\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Jibbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jibbing}.] Also Jibb \Jibb\ [Cf. {Jib} a sail, {Gybe}.] (Chiefly Naut.) To shift, or swing round, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jib \Jib\, v. i. [Connected with jibe; cf. OF. giber to shake.] To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk. [Written also {jibb}.] [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jib \Jib\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Jibbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jibbing}.] Also Jibb \Jibb\ [Cf. {Jib} a sail, {Gybe}.] (Chiefly Naut.) To shift, or swing round, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jibe \Jibe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jibed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jibing}.] [Cf. Dan. gibbe, D. gijpen, v. i., and dial. Sw. gippa to jerk. Cf. {Jib}, n. & v. i.] (Naut.) 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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jibe \Jibe\, v. i. 1. (Naut.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See {Jibe}, v. t., and {Gybe}. 2. To agree; to harmonize. [Colloq.] --Bartlett.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gybe \Gybe\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Gybed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gybing}.] [See {Jibe}.] (Naut.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side. [Also {jibe}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jibe \Jibe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jibed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jibing}.] [Cf. Dan. gibbe, D. gijpen, v. i., and dial. Sw. gippa to jerk. Cf. {Jib}, n. & v. i.] (Naut.) 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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jibe \Jibe\, v. i. 1. (Naut.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See {Jibe}, v. t., and {Gybe}. 2. To agree; to harmonize. [Colloq.] --Bartlett.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gybe \Gybe\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Gybed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gybing}.] [See {Jibe}.] (Naut.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side. [Also {jibe}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jiffy \Jif"fy\, n. [Perh. corrupt. fr. gliff.] [Written also {giffy}.] A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy. [Colloq.] --J. & H. Smith.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jippo \Jip"po\ (j[icr]p"p[osl]), n. [Abbrev. fr. juppon.] A waistcoat or kind of stays for women.
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jubbah \Jub"bah\, n. Also Jubbeh \Jub"beh\, Joobbeh \Joob"beh\ [Hind. jubba, fr. Ar. jubbah.] A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Mohammedans of the better class.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jove \Jove\, n. [L. Jupiter, gen. Jovis, OL. Jovis, nom. & gen. for Djovis; akin to E. Tuesday. See {Tuesday}, and cf. {Jupiter}.] 1. The chief divinity of the ancient Romans; Jupiter. 2. (Astron.) The planet Jupiter. [R.] --Pope. 3. (Alchemy) The metal tin. {Bird of Jove}, the eagle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jub \Jub\, n. [Perh. corrupted fr. jug.] A vessel for holding ale or wine; a jug. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Juba \[d8]Ju"ba\, n.; pl. {Jub[91]} (-b[emac]). [L., a mane.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The mane of an animal. 2. (Bot.) A loose panicle, the axis of which falls to pieces, as in certain grasses.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jubbah \Jub"bah\, n. Also Jubbeh \Jub"beh\, Joobbeh \Joob"beh\ [Hind. jubba, fr. Ar. jubbah.] A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Mohammedans of the better class.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jubbah \Jub"bah\, n. Also Jubbeh \Jub"beh\, Joobbeh \Joob"beh\ [Hind. jubba, fr. Ar. jubbah.] A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Mohammedans of the better class.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jupon \Jupon"\, Juppon \Juppon"\, n. [F. jupon, fr. jupe skirt, Sp. aljuba a Moorish garment, Ar. jubba.] [Written variously {jupe}, {jump}, {juppo}, etc.] 1. A sleeveless jacket worn over the armor in the 14th century. It fitted closely, and descended below the hips. --Dryden. 2. A petticoat. --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jupe \Jupe\, n. Same as {Jupon}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jupon \Jupon"\, Juppon \Juppon"\, n. [F. jupon, fr. jupe skirt, Sp. aljuba a Moorish garment, Ar. jubba.] [Written variously {jupe}, {jump}, {juppo}, etc.] 1. A sleeveless jacket worn over the armor in the 14th century. It fitted closely, and descended below the hips. --Dryden. 2. A petticoat. --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jupe \Jupe\, n. Same as {Jupon}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jupon \Jupon"\, Juppon \Juppon"\, n. [F. jupon, fr. jupe skirt, Sp. aljuba a Moorish garment, Ar. jubba.] [Written variously {jupe}, {jump}, {juppo}, etc.] 1. A sleeveless jacket worn over the armor in the 14th century. It fitted closely, and descended below the hips. --Dryden. 2. A petticoat. --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Juvia \Ju"vi*a\, n. (Bot.) A Brazilian name for the lofty myrtaceous tree ({Bertholetia excelsa}) which produces the large seeds known as Brazil nuts.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Java, SD (city, FIPS 32460) Location: 45.50358 N, 99.88423 W Population (1990): 161 (125 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57452 Java, VA Zip code(s): 24565
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Job, KY Zip code(s): 41224 Job, WV Zip code(s): 26296
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Joppa, AL Zip code(s): 35087 Joppa, IL (village, FIPS 38674) Location: 37.20578 N, 88.84426 W Population (1990): 492 (224 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62953 Joppa, MD Zip code(s): 21085
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
Java An object-oriented language originally developed at Sun by James Gosling (and known by the name "Oak") with the intention of being the successor to {C++} (the project was however originally sold to Sun as an embedded language for use in set-top boxes). After the great Internet explosion of 1993-1994, Java was hacked into a byte-interpreted language and became the focus of a relentless hype campaign by Sun, which touted it as the new language of choice for distributed applications. Java is indeed a stronger and cleaner design than C++ and has been embraced by many in the hacker community - but it has been a considerable source of frustration to many others, for reasons ranging from uneven support on different Web browser platforms, performance issues, and some notorious deficiencies of some of the standard toolkits (AWT in particular). {Microsoft}'s determined attempts to corrupt the language (which it rightly sees as a threat to its OS monopoly) have not helped. As of 1999, these issues are still in the process of being resolved. Despite many attractive features and a good design, it is difficult to find people willing to praise Java who have tried to implement a complex, real-world system with it (but to be fair it is early days yet, and no other language has ever been forced to spend its childhood under the limelight the way Java has). On the other hand, Java has already been a big {win} in academic circles, where it has taken the place of {Pascal} as the preferred tool for teaching the basics of good programming to the next generation of hackers.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
jiffy n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see {tick}). Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S. and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. "The swapper runs every 6 jiffies" means that the virtual memory management routine is executed once for every 6 ticks of the clock, or about ten times a second. 2. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a 1-millisecond {wall time} interval. 3. Even more confusingly, physicists semi-jokingly use `jiffy' to mean the time required for light to travel one foot in a vacuum, which turns out to be close to one _nanosecond_. 4. Indeterminate time from a few seconds to forever. "I'll do it in a jiffy" means certainly not now and possibly never. This is a bit contrary to the more widespread use of the word. Oppose {nano}. See also {Real Soon Now}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
japh A {Perl} program which prints "Just another Perl hacker" using extremely obfuscated methods, typically ones based on obscure behaviours of sometimes rarely-used functions, in the spirit of the {Obfuscated C Contest}. The obfuscation can result from the code being total gibberish, e.g.: $_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnp,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//; or from having "Just another Perl hacker" embedded in opaque code: $_='987;s/^(\d+)/$1-1/e;$1?eval:print"Just another Perl hacker,"';eval or from looking like it does something simple and completely unrelated to printing "Just another Perl hacker": $_ = "wftedskaebjgdpjgidbsmnjgc"; tr/a-z/oh, turtleneck Phrase Jar!/; print; {Examples (http://www.perl.com/CPAN/misc/japh)}. (1997-09-14)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Java (After the Indonesian island, a source of {programming fluid}) A simple, {object-oriented}, {distributed}, {interpreted}, robust, secure, {architecture-neutral}, {portable}, {multithreaded}, dynamic, buzzword-compliant, general-purpose programming language developed by {Sun Microsystems} in 1995(?). Java supports programming for the {Internet} in the form of {platform}-independent Java "applets". Java is similar to {C++} without {operator overloading} (though it does have {method} overloading), without {multiple inheritance}, and extensive automatic {coercions}. It has automatic {garbage collection}. Java programs can run stand-alone on small computers. The {interpreter} and {class} support take about 40 kilobytes; adding the standard libraries and {thread} support (essentially a self-contained {microkernel}) adds an additional 175Kb. Java extends {C++}'s {object-oriented} facilities with those of {Objective C} for {dynamic method resolution}. Java has an extensive library of routines for {TCP/IP} {protocols} like {HTTP} and {FTP}. Java applications can access objects across the {Internet} via {URL}s as easily as on the local {file system}. The Java compiler and {linker} both enforce {strong type checking} - procedures must be explicitly typed. Java supports the creation of {virus}-free, tamper-free systems with {authentication} based on {public-key encryption}. The Java compiler generates an {architecture-neutral} {object file} executable on any processor supporting the Java {run-time system}. The object code consists of {bytecode} instructions designed to be both easy to interpret on any machine and easily translated into {native} {machine code} at load time. The Java libraries provide portable interfaces. For example, there is an abstract Window class and implementations of it for {Unix}, {Microsoft Windows} and the {Macintosh}. The run-time system is written in {POSIX}-compliant {ANSI C}. Java applets can be executed as attachments in {World-Wide Web} documents using either Sun's {HotJava} browser or {Netscape Navigator} version 2.0. {Home (http://java.sun.com/)}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.lang.java}. E-mail: . (1995-12-06)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Java 2 {Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
jiffy 1. The duration of one {tick} of the computer's {system clock}. Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the US and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. 2. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a 1-millisecond {wall time} interval. Even more confusingly, physicists semi-jokingly use "jiffy" to mean the time required for light to travel one foot in a vacuum, which turns out to be close to one nanosecond. [{Jargon File}] (2002-03-02)
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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
JOOP {Journal of Object-Oriented Programming}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
jove Jonathan's Own Version Of Emacs. A version of the {GNU} {Emacs} editor. Similar to {MicroGnuEmacs}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
jp The {country code} for Japan. (1999-01-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
JSP {JavaServer Pages}
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Japhia splendid. (1.) The king of Lachish, who joined in the confederacy against Joshua (Josh. 10:3), and was defeated and slain. In one of the Amarna tablets he speaks of himself as king of Gezer. Called also Horam (Josh. 10:33). (2.) One of the sons of David (2 Sam. 5:15), born in Jerusalem. (3.) A town in the southern boundary of Zebulum (Josh. 19:12); now Yafa, 2 miles south-west of Nazareth.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Japho beauty, a sea-port in Dan (Josh. 19:46); called Joppa (q.v.) in 2 Chr. 2:16; Ezra 3:7; Jonah 1:3; and in New Testament.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Jehovah the special and significant name (not merely an appellative title such as Lord [adonai]) by which God revealed himself to the ancient Hebrews (Ex. 6:2, 3). This name, the Tetragrammaton of the Greeks, was held by the later Jews to be so sacred that it was never pronounced except by the high priest on the great Day of Atonement, when he entered into the most holy place. Whenever this name occurred in the sacred books they pronounced it, as they still do, "Adonai" (i.e., Lord), thus using another word in its stead. The Massorets gave to it the vowel-points appropriate to this word. This Jewish practice was founded on a false interpretation of Lev. 24:16. The meaning of the word appears from Ex. 3:14 to be "the unchanging, eternal, self-existent God," the "I am that I am," a convenant-keeping God. (Comp. Mal. 3:6; Hos. 12:5; Rev. 1:4, 8.) The Hebrew name "Jehovah" is generally translated in the Authorized Version (and the Revised Version has not departed from this rule) by the word LORD printed in small capitals, to distinguish it from the rendering of the Hebrew _Adonai_ and the Greek _Kurios_, which are also rendered Lord, but printed in the usual type. The Hebrew word is translated "Jehovah" only in Ex. 6:3; Ps. 83:18; Isa. 12:2; 26:4, and in the compound names mentioned below. It is worthy of notice that this name is never used in the LXX., the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Apocrypha, or in the New Testament. It is found, however, on the "Moabite stone" (q.v.), and consequently it must have been in the days of Mesba so commonly pronounced by the Hebrews as to be familiar to their heathen neighbours.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Joab Jehovah is his father. (1.) One of the three sons of Zeruiah, David's sister, and "captain of the host" during the whole of David's reign (2 Sam. 2:13; 10:7; 11:1; 1 Kings 11:15). His father's name is nowhere mentioned, although his sepulchre at Bethlehem is mentioned (2 Sam. 2:32). His two brothers were Abishai and Asahel, the swift of foot, who was killed by Abner (2 Sam. 2:13-32), whom Joab afterwards treacherously murdered (3:22-27). He afterwards led the assault at the storming of the fortress on Mount Zion, and for this service was raised to the rank of "prince of the king's army" (2 Sam. 5:6-10; 1 Chr. 27:34). His chief military achievements were, (1) against the allied forces of Syria and Ammon; (2) against Edom (1 Kings 11:15, 16); and (3) against the Ammonites (2 Sam. 10:7-19; 11:1, 11). His character is deeply stained by the part he willingly took in the murder of Uriah (11:14-25). He acted apparently from a sense of duty in putting Absalom to death (18:1-14). David was unmindful of the many services Joab had rendered to him, and afterwards gave the command of the army to Amasa, Joab's cousin (2 Sam. 20:1-13; 19:13). When David was dying Joab espoused the cause of Adonijah in preference to that of Solomon. He was afterwards slain by Benaiah, by the command of Solomon, in accordance with his father's injunction (2 Sam. 3:29; 20:5-13), at the altar to which he had fled for refuge. Thus this hoary conspirator died without one to lift up a voice in his favour. He was buried in his own property in the "wilderness," probably in the north-east of Jerusalem (1 Kings 2:5, 28-34). Benaiah succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the army. (2.) 1 Chr. 4:14. (3.) Ezra 2:6.
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 Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Joppa beauty, a town in the portion of Dan (Josh. 19:46; A.V., "Japho"), on a sandy promontory between Caesarea and Gaza, and at a distance of 30 miles north-west from Jerusalem. It is one of the oldest towns in Asia. It was and still is the chief sea-port of Judea. It was never wrested from the Phoenicians. It became a Jewish town only in the second century B.C. It was from this port that Jonah "took ship to flee from the presence of the Lord" (Jonah 1:3). To this place also the wood cut in Lebanon by Hiram's men for Solomon was brought in floats (2 Chr. 2:16); and here the material for the building of the second temple was also landed (Ezra 3:7). At Joppa, in the house of Simon the tanner, "by the sea-side," Peter resided "many days," and here, "on the house-top," he had his "vision of tolerance" (Acts 9:36-43). It bears the modern name of Jaffa, and exibituds all the decrepitude and squalor of cities ruled over by the Turks. "Scarcely any other town has been so often overthrown, sacked, pillaged, burned, and rebuilt." Its present population is said to be about 16,000. It was taken by the French under Napoleon in 1799, who gave orders for the massacre here of 4,000 prisoners. It is connected with Jerusalem by the only carriage road that exists in the country, and also by a railway completed in 1892. It is noticed on monuments B.C. 1600-1300, and was attacked by Sannacharib B.C. 702.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Japhia, enlightening; appearing
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Japho, fairness; comeliness
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Jehovah, self-subsisting
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Jehubbah, hiding, binding
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Joab, paternity; voluntary
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Job, he that weeps or cries
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Joppa, beauty; comeliness