Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Honorable and fair in one's dealings and actions: synonym: fair.
- adjective Consistent with what is morally right; righteous.
- adjective Properly due or merited.
- adjective Law Valid within the law; lawful.
- adjective Suitable or proper in nature; fitting.
- adjective Based on fact or sound reason; well-founded.
- adverb Precisely; exactly.
- adverb Only a moment ago.
- adverb By a narrow margin; barely.
- adverb At a little distance.
- adverb Merely; only.
- adverb Simply; certainly.
- adverb Perhaps; possibly.
- idiom (just about) Almost; very nearly.
- idiom (just now) Only a moment ago.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A military contest or spectacle in which two adversaries attacked each other with blunted lances, rarely with sharp weapons as in war; a knightly tilt.
- Exactly, in space, time, kind, or degree; precisely; without interval, deviation, or variation; absolutely: as, just five miles; just noon; just so; just as I thought.
- Within a little; with very little but a sufficient difference; nearly; almost exactly; as, I stood just by him; I saw him just now.
- Merely; barely; by or with a narrow margin: as, you just missed the mark; he is just a little displeased.
- But now; very lately; within a brief past time.
- Quite: in intensive use: as, just awful.
- Directly; immediately; without delay: as, I will attend to it just now.
- Right in law or ethics
- Right in character or quality
- Strictly accurate; exact; precise; proper.
- Agreeable to the common standard; full; complete.
- Right-minded; good in intention
- Carefully mindful; faithful; followed by to, and formerly also by of: as, to be just to one's engagements.
- In music, harmonically pure, correct, and exact; in perfect tune: as, just interval, intonation, temperament: opposed in general to impure and incorrect, and specifically to tempered.
- noun A pot or jug, made of earthenware or metal, with large body and straight neck, for holding liquids.
- To engage in a tournament or just; tilt.
- noun An abbreviation of Justice;
- noun of Justinian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A joust.
- adverb Precisely; exactly; -- in place, time, or degree; neither more nor less than is stated.
- adverb Closely; nearly; almost.
- adverb Barely; merely; scarcely; only; by a very small space or time
- adverb the least possible time since; a moment ago.
- adjective Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things.
- adjective Not transgressing the requirement of truth and propriety; conformed to the truth of things, to reason, or to a proper standard; exact; normal; reasonable; regular; due
- adjective Rendering or disposed to render to each one his due; equitable; fair; impartial.
- adjective (Mus.) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without
temperament ; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the various keys is much greater than the twelve to the octave used in systems of temperament. - intransitive verb To joust.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Factually
fair ;correct ;proper . - adjective Morally
fair ;upright ;righteous ,equitable . - adverb Only, simply,
merely . - adverb Used to reduce the force of an imperative; simply.
- adverb speech act Used to convey a less
serious orformal tone - adverb speech act Used to show humility.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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I don't remember Kathleen Battle, but that may just be just� Prof. WEST: Yeah.
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Look here it's quite obviously not the same bass track, it may well have been influenced but any aspertion to the contrary is just mischief in my opinion..just an excuse for insomniacs around the world to vent..
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It was just as easy as your original crust recipe..just a couple different ingredients.
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I just made some wonderful pear ice cream and think that this would be *just* the thing to top it with.
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Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel and Benjamin Krohmal argue in their article that a tiered system i.e. one with more than one tier is "just in principle and ..just in practice".
Dueling ethical views in Archives Internal Medicine re: "tiered" health care systems james gaulte 2007
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On the last point in your first post - I´d just like to point out that I´m an activist, a focus deliverer, former councillor, etc etc as well..just because I recognise that by definition a party activist is an already convinced partisan is not a criticism.
The left turn is a dead end Charles Anglin 2007
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Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel and Benjamin Krohmal argue in their article that a tiered system i.e. one with more than one tier is "just in principle and ..just in practice".
Archive 2007-03-01 james gaulte 2007
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The Anchoress just pointed that out and said it's just really, really odd...
Archive 2006-06-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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So - should I just - maybe I could make a journal *just* for my censored ep recaps?
7th November '05 2005
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