JERSEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jersey mean? 

• JERSEY (noun)
  The noun JERSEY has 5 senses:

1. a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies

2. the largest of the Channel Islands

3. a close-fitting pullover shirt

4. a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric

5. a breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey

  Familiarity information: JERSEY used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JERSEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Jersey"):

Delaware Bay (an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River)

Ellis Island (an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States)

Cape May (a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean)

Princeton (a university town in central New Jersey)

Paterson (a city of northeastern New Jersey)

New Brunswick (a university town in central New Jersey)

Newark (the largest city in New Jersey; located in northeastern New Jersey)

Morristown (a town in northern New Jersey where the Continental Army spent two winters)

Jersey City (a city in northeastern New Jersey (opposite Manhattan))

Camden (a city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Philadelphia)

Bayonne (a city in northeastern New Jersey)

capital of New Jersey; Trenton (capital of the state of New Jersey; located in western New Jersey on the Delaware river)

Atlantic City (a city on the Atlantic shore in southeastern New Jersey; a resort and gambling center)

Domain member region:

Battle of Monmouth; Battle of Monmouth Court House; Monmouth Court House (a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution (1778) that ended with the withdrawal of British forces)

Holonyms ("Jersey" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Mid-Atlantic states (a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The largest of the Channel Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

island of Jersey; Jersey

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

Channel Island (any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A close-fitting pullover shirt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

jersey; T-shirt; tee shirt

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

shirt (a garment worn on the upper half of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jersey"):

polo-neck; turtle; turtleneck (a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A slightly elastic machine-knit fabric

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

knit (a fabric made by knitting)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

dairy cattle; dairy cow; milch cow; milcher; milk cow; milker (cattle that are reared for their milk)

 Context examples 

The early stage, in vitro research was conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Rocky Mountain Laboratories and the New Jersey Medical School-Rutgers University.

(Scientists describe potential antibody approach for treating multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, National Institutes of Health)

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey is dedicated to improving the prevention, detection, treatment, and care of patients with cancer, through the translation of laboratory discoveries into clinical practice.

(Cancer Institute of New Jersey, NCI Thesaurus)

A census division of the United States consisting of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

(Middle Atlantic Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

A census region of the United States consisting of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

(Northeastern United States Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists have determined this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone,” an area of low oxygen that can kill fish and marine life, is 8,776 square miles, an area about the size of New Jersey.

(Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ is the largest ever measured, NOAA)

While the prevalence of allergy to alpha-gal, or alpha-gal syndrome is not known, researchers have observed that it occurs mostly in people living in the Southeast region of the United States and certain areas of New York, New Jersey and New England.

(NIAID scientists link cases of unexplained anaphylaxis to red meat allergy, National Institutes of Health)

This means that double-star systems of the type studied here are excellent candidates to host habitable planets, despite the large variations in the amount of starlight hypothetical planets in such a system would receive, said Max Popp, associate research scholar at Princeton University in New Jersey, and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany.

(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)

“Let me see!” said Holmes. Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year 1858. Contralto—hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera of Warsaw—yes! Retired from operatic stage—ha! Living in London—quite so!

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

Even though there has been very little research on vitamin C and tuberculosis, the nutrient is a safe compound, it's widely available, it's inexpensive, noted David Alland, associate dean of clinical research at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

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

Cohort members initially resided in 11 geographically dispersed states representing the Northeast (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland), Northcentral (Ohio, Michigan), the West (California) and the South (Texas, Florida); although the majority of participants still reside in the original 11 states, members of the cohort currently live in all 50 states.

(Nurses' Health Study, NCI Thesaurus)