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JURY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("jury" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
Meronyms (members of "jury"):
juror; juryman; jurywoman (someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jury"):
grand jury (a jury to inquire into accusations of crime and to evaluate the grounds for indictments)
hung jury (a jury that is unable to agree on a verdict (the result is a mistrial))
petit jury; petty jury (a jury of 12 to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings)
blue ribbon jury; special jury (a jury whose members are selected for special knowledge for a case involving complicated issues)
Holonyms ("jury" is a member of...):
court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A committee appointed to judge a competition
Synonyms:
jury; panel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("jury" is a kind of...):
commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)
Context examples:
And yet he was absolutely incapable of working out the practical points which must be gone into before a case could be laid before a judge or jury.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a hard-headed British jury.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You likely have an important project on your desk, which might involve a book, screenplay, thesis, podcast, app, new TV show, or digital project that is consuming quite a bit of your thinking, or if you are a lawyer, you could be writing a dynamite opening and closing statement to present to the jury on a trial you’ll soon begin.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
In the execution of this will Edith strove earnestly to observe the customary forms, but the group was so small that Hans and she had to serve as witnesses, as jury, and as judges—also as executioners.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“That’s for a jury to decide,” said Lestrade.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way as to deceive a coroner’s jury.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I fancy that I have evidence enough to satisfy a jury, even if you are able to pick a hole in it.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had, as it appears, been returning from Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in bringing in a verdict of ‘death from accidental causes.’ Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of murder.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The coroner’s jury brought in the obvious Wilful Murder, but the parties remained as unknown as ever.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am convinced that the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with the warnings.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
