| jab | | |
| n. (act) | 1. jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting | a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).; "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist" |
| ~ gesture | motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling. |
| n. (act) | 2. jab | a quick short straight punch. |
| ~ biff, punch, lick, clout, poke, slug | (boxing) a blow with the fist.; "I gave him a clout on his nose" |
| n. (act) | 3. dig, jab | the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow.; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs" |
| ~ touching, touch | the act of putting two things together with no space between them.; "at his touch the room filled with lights" |
| v. (contact) | 4. dig, jab, poke, prod, stab | poke or thrust abruptly.; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs" |
| ~ thrust | push forcefully.; "He thrust his chin forward" |
| v. (contact) | 5. jab | strike or punch with quick and short blows. |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| v. (contact) | 6. jab, stab | stab or pierce.; "he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife" |
| ~ goad, prick | stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick. |
| ~ thrust | push forcefully.; "He thrust his chin forward" |
| job | | |
| n. (act) | 1. business, job, line, line of work, occupation | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.; "he's not in my line of business" |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ confectionery | the occupation and skills of a confectioner. |
| ~ sport | the occupation of athletes who compete for pay. |
| ~ farming, land | agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life.; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" |
| ~ biz, game | your occupation or line of work.; "he's in the plumbing game"; "she's in show biz" |
| ~ calling, career, vocation | the particular occupation for which you are trained. |
| ~ employment, work | the occupation for which you are paid.; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work" |
| ~ appointment | the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed.; "he applied for an appointment in the treasury" |
| ~ berth, billet, post, situation, position, office, place, spot | a job in an organization.; "he occupied a post in the treasury" |
| ~ salt mine, treadmill | a job involving drudgery and confinement. |
| ~ craft, trade | the skilled practice of a practical occupation.; "he learned his trade as an apprentice" |
| ~ profession | an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences). |
| ~ metier, medium | an occupation for which you are especially well suited.; "in law he found his true metier" |
| ~ accountancy, accounting | the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business. |
| ~ photography | the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies. |
| ~ catering | providing food and services. |
| n. (act) | 2. chore, job, task | 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" |
| ~ duty | work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons.; "the duties of the job" |
| ~ ball-breaker, ball-buster | a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing.; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker" |
| ~ stint | an individual's prescribed share of work.; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her" |
| ~ scut work, shitwork | trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores.; "the hospital hired him to do scut work" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. job | a workplace; as in the expression.; "on the job" |
| ~ workplace, work | a place where work is done.; "he arrived at work early today" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. 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" |
| ~ product, production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" |
| n. (act) | 5. job | the responsibility to do something.; "it is their job to print the truth" |
| ~ duty, obligation, responsibility | the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force.; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty" |
| n. (act) | 6. job | the performance of a piece of work.; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job" |
| ~ work | activity directed toward making or doing something.; "she checked several points needing further work" |
| n. (act) | 7. job | a damaging piece of work.; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair" |
| ~ work | activity directed toward making or doing something.; "she checked several points needing further work" |
| n. (state) | 8. job, problem | 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" |
| ~ difficulty | a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome.; "grappling with financial difficulties" |
| ~ race problem | a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions. |
| ~ balance-of-payments problem | an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports. |
| n. (person) | 9. job | a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him. |
| ~ hero | a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain" |
| n. (person) | 10. job | any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing. |
| ~ unfortunate, unfortunate person | a person who suffers misfortune. |
| n. (communication) | 11. job | (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit. |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| ~ application program, applications programme, application | a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task.; "he has tried several different word processing applications" |
| n. (communication) | 12. book of job, job | a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply. |
| ~ book | a major division of a long written composition.; "the book of Isaiah" |
| ~ old testament | the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible. |
| ~ hagiographa, ketubim, writings | the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures. |
| n. (act) | 13. caper, job | a crime (especially a robbery).; "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis" |
| ~ robbery | larceny by threat of violence. |
| v. (social) | 14. job | profit privately from public office and official business. |
| ~ chisel, cheat | engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.; "Who's chiseling on the side?" |
| v. (social) | 15. farm out, job, subcontract | arranged for contracted work to be done by others. |
| ~ hire, employ, engage | engage or hire for work.; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?" |
| v. (social) | 16. job | work occasionally.; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks" |
| ~ do work, work | be employed.; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college" |
| v. (possession) | 17. job, speculate | 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" |
| ~ invest, commit, put, place | make an investment.; "Put money into bonds" |
| ~ bull | try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying. |
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