JONES

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• JONES (noun)
  The noun JONES has 6 senses:

1. United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)

2. United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)

3. United States golfer (1902-1971)

4. American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)

5. one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)

6. English phonetician (1881-1967)

  Familiarity information: JONES used as a noun is common.

• JONES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jones; Mary Harris Jones; Mother Jones

Instance hypernyms:

labor leader (a leader of a labor movement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Casey Jones; John Luther Jones; Jones

Instance hypernyms:

engine driver; engineer; locomotive engineer; railroad engineer (the operator of a railway locomotive)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States golfer (1902-1971)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bobby Jones; Jones; Robert Tyre Jones

Instance hypernyms:

golf player; golfer; linksman (someone who plays the game of golf)

Sense 4

Meaning:

American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Paul Jones; Jones

Instance hypernyms:

naval commander (naval officer in command of a fleet of warships)

Sense 5

Meaning:

One of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Inigo Jones; Jones

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

Sense 6

Meaning:

English phonetician (1881-1967)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Daniel Jones; Jones

Instance hypernyms:

phonetician (a specialist in phonetics)

 Context examples 

“You’ll see your pal again presently,” said Jones.

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

Next day after that I ask her what is her name. She laugh, then she says, 'Mary Jones, that is my name.'

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Dr Richard Bevan Jones added, “There may be a vicious circle where cell damage triggers inflammation, which in turn leads to further cell damage.”

(Inflammation in the brain linked to several forms of dementia, University of Cambridge)

They usually develop in the ileocoecal lymph nodes, and about 60% of them synthesis monoclonal immunoglobulins (Bence-Jones proteins) of IgG1 (35%), IgE (36%) or IgA classes.

(LOU/C, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

“She is a great deal too ill to be moved. Mr. Jones says we must not think of moving her. We must trespass a little longer on your kindness.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“He’s the best bit of new stuff that I’ve seen since Jem Belcher fought his first fight with Paddington Jones at Wormwood Scrubbs four years ago last April,” said Berkeley Craven.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also known as Bence Jones myeloma.

(Light Chain Deposition Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Bence Jones proteins are sufficiently small to be excreted by the kidney.

(Bence Jones protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the amount of Bence-Jones protein present in a sample.

(Bence-Jones Protein Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)