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JONES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English phonetician (1881-1967)
Synonyms:
Daniel Jones; Jones
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
phonetician (a specialist in phonetics)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)
Synonyms:
Inigo Jones; Jones
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))
Sense 3
Meaning:
American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)
Synonyms:
John Paul Jones; Jones
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
naval commander (naval officer in command of a fleet of warships)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States golfer (1902-1971)
Synonyms:
Bobby Jones; Jones; Robert Tyre Jones
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
golf player; golfer; linksman (someone who plays the game of golf)
Sense 5
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)
Synonyms:
Casey Jones; John Luther Jones; Jones
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
engine driver; engineer; locomotive engineer; railroad engineer (the operator of a railway locomotive)
Sense 6
Meaning:
United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
Synonyms:
Jones; Mary Harris Jones; Mother Jones
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
labor leader (a leader of a labor movement)
Context examples:
A measurement of the total Bence-Jones protein in a biological specimen.
(Bence-Jones Protein Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
“Why, in the name of Davy Jones,” said he, “is Dr. Livesey mad?”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The ripples "have two important measurable components: abundance and short gamma power," said Emily Jones, lead author of the new study.
(Predicting Alzheimer's-like memory loss before it strikes, National Science Foundation)
A stout Frenchman, who knew the Emperor, came to indulge his mania for dancing, and Lady de Jones, a British matron, adorned the scene with her little family of eight.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Catherine, humbled and ashamed, was going to apologize for her question, but he prevented her by saying, Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t'other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“All right,” said Jones with a stare and a snigger.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is a post there, filled with the goods of the white man, and a trader whose name is Jones. Likewise is there a white man's medicine man, what you call missionary.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Light chains excreted in the urine are known as Bence Jones protein.
(Light Chain Deposition Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Bingley urged Mr. Jones being sent for immediately; while his sisters, convinced that no country advice could be of any service, recommended an express to town for one of the most eminent physicians.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
