JACOB

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• JACOB (noun)
  The noun JACOB has 2 senses:

1. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)

2. (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning 'one who has been strong against God')

  Familiarity information: JACOB used as a noun is rare.

• JACOB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Francois Jacob; Jacob

Instance hypernyms:

biochemist (someone with special training in biochemistry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning 'one who has been strong against God')

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Jacob" is a kind of...):

patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)

Domain category:

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)

 Context examples 

"When we first discovered it, it was like, 'Wow! There's just so much we don't know yet. And wouldn't that be really cool if it really works,'" Jacobs said.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

Jacobs, will you ask the Prime Minister to come up?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle or group of muscles; these movements may develop as a symptom of a number of neurological diseases including epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, or Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.

(Myoclonic jerk, NCI Thesaurus)

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I was quite of the same way of thinking as the others, and would as soon have thought of passing my night at Jacob’s gibbet on Ditchling Common as in the haunted house of Cliffe Royal.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thank you, Jacobs, put it here.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"The bottom line is that we don't know the answer," Jacobs acknowledged.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

Jacob was a pioneer in the study of German philology, and although Wilhelm’s work was hampered by poor health the brothers collaborated in the creation of a German dictionary, not completed until a century after their deaths.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Jacobs, bring down my despatch-box.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Albert Einstein College of Medicine microbiologist William Jacobs and colleagues previously discovered by accident that antioxidants like vitamin C stopped TB bacteria in a test tube from becoming persisters.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)