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JACKSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town in south central Michigan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Jackson" is a part of...):
Great Lakes State; MI; Mich.; Michigan; Wolverine State (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River
Synonyms:
capital of Mississippi; Jackson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)
Holonyms ("Jackson" is a part of...):
Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A town in western Tennessee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Jackson" is a part of...):
Tenn.; Tennessee; TN; Volunteer State (a state in east central United States)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A town in western Wyoming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Jackson" is a part of...):
Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)
Sense 5
Meaning:
7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845)
Synonyms:
Andrew Jackson; Jackson; Old Hickory
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)
full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)
Derivation:
Jacksonian (of or pertaining to Andrew Jackson or his presidency or his concepts of popular democracy)
Sense 6
Meaning:
General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)
Synonyms:
Jackson; Stonewall Jackson; Thomas J. Jackson; Thomas Jackson; Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)
Sense 7
Meaning:
United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885)
Synonyms:
Helen Hunt Jackson; Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson; Jackson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 8
Meaning:
United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
Synonyms:
Jackson; Jesse Jackson; Jesse Louis Jackson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)
pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)
Sense 9
Meaning:
United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972)
Synonyms:
Jackson; Mahalia Jackson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
Sense 10
Meaning:
United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958)
Synonyms:
Jackson; Michael Jackson; Michael Joe Jackson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
Sense 11
Meaning:
English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)
Synonyms:
Glenda Jackson; Jackson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
actress (a female actor)
pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)
Context examples:
A resource of the Jackson lab, provides integrated access to data on the genetics, genomics, and biology of the laboratory mouse.
(Mouse Genome Informatics, NCI Thesaurus)
At the time of the war he fought in Jackson’s army, and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The CBA mouse from Strong (1920) was disseminated to Jackson Laboratory and then onto Haldane and Gruneberg (1932) and finally onto Carter (1947).
(CBA/Ca Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)
You will find, however, Miss Morland, it would be reckoned a cheap thing by some people, for I might have sold it for ten guineas more the next day; Jackson, of Oriel, bid me sixty at once; Morland was with me at the time.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A pioneering international study, carried out by the University of Granada, Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Florida, Laval University and the Jackson Laboratory has conducted an in-depth analysis of the molecular differences between the most common symptoms associated with neuropathic pain.
(Genetic study paves way for new neuropathic pain treatments, University of Granada)
Investigators at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, and their collaborators discovered a subtype of T cell (link is external)s—called T follicular helper cell 13, or Tfh13 cells — in laboratory mice bred to have a rare genetic immune disease called DOCK8 immunodeficiency syndrome.
(Scientists discover immune cell subtype in mice that drives allergic reactions, National Institutes of Health)
“Glad to see you, Jackson,” said my companion.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Networks of channels then converge toward the mid-ocean ridge but don't mix — like the streaks of paint on a Jackson Pollock painting.
(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)
Mrs. Norris related again her triumph over Dick Jackson, but neither play nor preparation were otherwise much talked of, for Edmund's disapprobation was felt even by his brother, though he would not have owned it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Jackson having replied with a readiness which many a public man might have envied, my uncle rose once more.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
