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JACOB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
Synonyms:
Francois Jacob; Jacob
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
biochemist (someone with special training in biochemistry)
Context examples:
The study in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy said Jacobs and colleagues found that TB-infected mice treated with two standard drugs plus a high dose of vitamin C had roughly tenfold fewer bacteria in their lungs after several weeks than mice treated with drugs alone.
(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)
