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Jinn
- noun - (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals
Jinx
- noun - a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him
- an evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"
- cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
- foredoom to failure; "This project is jinxed!"
Jird
- noun - gerbil of northern Africa
Jive
- noun - a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- dance to jive music; dance the jive
Jnd
- noun - (psychophysics) the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected
Jnds
- noun - (psychophysics) the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected
Jnr
- noun - a son who has the same first name as his father
Jnr.
- - Abbreviation for Junior, used after a name by a son who has the same first and last name as his father; -- less commonly used than Jr.
Jo
- - A sweetheart; a darling.
Job
- noun - (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
- a crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"
- a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
- a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
- 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"
- 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 tr