Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- In the Bible, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham. His 12 sons became the progenitors of the 12 tribes of Israel.
- François,French geneticist. He shared a 1965 Nobel Prize for his research on the regulation of gene expression, including the role of messenger RNA.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A jacobus, a gold coin of James I. of England.
- noun . A housebreaker who carried a ladder.
- noun A ladder.
- noun A half-witted person. Vaux, Flash Dict.
- noun The starling, Sturnus vulgaris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called
Israel . - noun (Bot.), (Naut.), (Naut.) A succession of short cracks in a defective spar.
- noun See
Retina . - noun [Obs.], (Surveying) See under
Staff .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun One of the sons of
Isaac andRebecca , andtwin brother ofEsau ; father of theIsraelites . - proper noun A male
given name . - proper noun A breed of multihorned
sheep .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (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')
- noun French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Jacob Morgan: @Jacob Morgan So really what we ACTUALLY want is there to be a Google-made tool that loads the Live-CD image onto a memstick without any hassle, extra utilities or technical know-how.
Nine Must-Have Features We Want To See In A Google OS | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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To ask Jacob to lend me money, to beg him to give me more time to pay a debt, to cajole and bully him by turns, to call him alternately usurer and _my honest fellow_, extortioner and _my friend Jacob_ -- my tongue could not have uttered the words, my soul detested the thought; yet all this, and more, could Mowbray do, and did.
Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Edward was totally okay with the fact that she asked jacob to kiss her and edward is willing to let her pick Jacob and he wants her to be happy and normal no matter how much pain it causes him also the only reasons that Edward left her in new moon is because he wanted her to be safe so you jacob teamers don't use that against him!
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Bella went after jacob, she had no idea that edward was coming back, Jacob is important the next movies.
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So all of you who vote team jacob please think it over, think of how Bella felt when Edward left or off all the times she felt furious with Jacob, but most importantly how much Bella truly, deeply loves Edward and how he feels the same.
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Im Team jacob, not because im whiney and hate love but because Jacob fights for te girl he loves. and he hilarious and a good mechanic.
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Bella went after jacob, she had no idea that edward was coming back, Jacob is important the next movies.
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First - Taylor Lautner is NOT jacob, and Jacob is NOT taylor lautner.
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Bella went after jacob, she had no idea that edward was coming back, Jacob is important the next movies.
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She talks about his perfect face and voice (because he has a perfect voice and face unlike jacob.) but what does she do? she has no life no hobby with him-she didnt have one to begin with? would you like her to get a new one just cause shes with jacob? vs with Jacob, she learned things (about mechanics? edward could teach her that) and she experimented (with LIFE THREATENING things!).
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