jam : Idioms & Phrases

• noun English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930)
  Balfour; 1st Earl of Balfour.
  

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• verb jam an entire frequency spectrum
  
  • During the Cold War, the Soviets routinely barrage jammed to interfere with transmissions from the West

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• noun electronic jamming over a wide range of frequencies simultaneously
  

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• verb jam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications
  

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• noun English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
  Cook; Captain Cook; Captain James Cook.
  

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• noun English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806)
  Fox.
  

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• noun the British royal court
  

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• noun Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)
  Duncan Grant; Grant.
  

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• noun English poet (born in 1930)
  Hughes; Ted Hughes.
  

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• noun United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904)
  Muybridge; Eadweard Muybridge.
  

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• noun deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
  jam; jamming.
  

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• noun a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle
  James.
  

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• noun English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary (1825-1910)
  Furnivall.
  

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• noun writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)
  James.
  

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• . See Check nut, under Check.

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• noun an impromptu jazz concert
  

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• (Forging), a butt weld. See under Butt.

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• adjective satellite filled to capacity
  jammed; packed.
  
  • a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes
  • stands jam-packed with fans
  • a packed theater

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• noun 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)
  James Abraham Garfield; Garfield; President Garfield; James A. Garfield.
  

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• noun United States painter (1834-1903)
  Whistler.
  

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• noun 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)
  James Abraham Garfield; Garfield; President Garfield; James A. Garfield.
  

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• noun United States novelist (1909-1955)
  Agee.
  

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• noun United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997)
  Michener; James Albert Michener.
  

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• noun United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914)
  Van Allen.
  

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• noun United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987)
  James Arthur Baldwin; Baldwin.
  

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• noun influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941)
  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce; Joyce.
  

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• noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
  Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray.
  

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• noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
  Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray.
  

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• noun United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987)
  James Arthur Baldwin; Baldwin.
  

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• noun Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)
  James Matthew Barrie; J. M. Barrie; James Barrie; Barrie.
  

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• noun the southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario
  

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• noun Swiss mathematician (1654-1705)
  Jacques Bernoulli; Bernoulli; Jakob Bernoulli.
  

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• noun British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming
  Bond.
  

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• noun Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)
  Boswell.
  

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• noun United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836)
  Jim Bowie; Bowie.
  

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• noun United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958)
  Cabell.
  

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• noun 15th President of the United States (1791-1868)
  Buchanan; President Buchanan.
  

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• noun United States financier noted for his love of diamonds and his extravagant lifestyle (1856-1917)
  Diamond Jim Brady; Brady; Diamond Jim.
  

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• noun frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876)
  Wild Bill Hickock; Hickock.
  

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• noun United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)
  James Byron Dean; Dean.
  

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• noun United States film actor known for his portrayals of tough characters (1899-1986)
  Jimmy Cagney; Cagney.
  

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• noun British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
  James Clark Ross; Ross.
  

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• noun Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)
  Maxwell; J. C. Maxwell.
  

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• noun United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)
  Owens; Jesse Owens.
  

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• noun English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
  Cook; Captain Cook; Captain James Cook.
  

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• noun Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582)
  Crichton; The Admirable Crichton.
  

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• noun United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)
  James Byron Dean; Dean.
  

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• noun United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)
  James Dewey Watson; Watson.
  

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• noun United States rock singer (1943-1971)
  Jim Morrison; Morrison.
  

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• noun 39th President of the United States (1924-)
  President Carter; Jimmy Carter; James Earl Carter; Carter.
  

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• noun 39th President of the United States (1924-)
  President Carter; Jimmy Carter; James Earl Carter; Carter.
  

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• noun United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908)
  Scripps.
  

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• noun English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (1907-1995)
  Meade.
  

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• noun United States novelist noted for his stories of American Indians and the frontier life (1789-1851)
  Cooper.
  

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• noun outstanding United States athlete (1888-1953)
  Thorpe; Jim Thorpe.
  

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• noun United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964)
  Franck.
  

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• noun 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)
  James Abraham Garfield; Garfield; President Garfield; James A. Garfield.
  

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• noun English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941)
  James George Frazer; Frazer.
  

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• noun United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)
  James Grover Thurber; Thurber.
  

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• noun English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778)
  Hargreaves.
  

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• noun United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993)
  Doolittle; Jimmy Doolittle.
  

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• noun United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)
  Robinson.
  

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• noun British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
  Hunt; Leigh Hunt.
  

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• noun Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835)
  Hogg.
  

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• noun United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
  Meredith; James Howard Meredith.
  

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• noun Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797)
  Hutton.
  

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• noun the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)
  James; King James; James I.
  

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• noun the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)
  James.
  

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• noun a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)
  James.
  

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• noun United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895)
  Ives; James Ives.
  

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• noun United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)
  Hill; J. J. Hill.
  

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• noun United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933)
  Jim Corbett; Corbett; Gentleman Jim.
  

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• noun United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978)
  Tunney; Gene Tunney.
  

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• noun influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941)
  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce; Joyce.
  

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• noun 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
  President Polk; James K. Polk; Polk; James Knox Polk.
  

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• noun 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
  President Polk; James K. Polk; Polk; James Knox Polk.
  

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• noun United States writer (1902-1967)
  Hughes; Langston Hughes.
  

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• noun United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
  Farmer.
  

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• noun 4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836)
  Madison; President Madison.
  

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• noun United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997)
  Jimmy Stewart; Stewart.
  

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• noun United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970)
  Hendrix; Jimi Hendrix.
  

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• noun English film actor (1909-1984)
  James Mason; Mason.
  

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• noun Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)
  James Matthew Barrie; J. M. Barrie; James Barrie; Barrie.
  

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• noun American psychologist and editor (1860-1944)
  Cattell.
  

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• noun United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
  Meredith; James Howard Meredith.
  

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• noun United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895)
  Ives; James Ives.
  

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• noun United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997)
  Michener; James Albert Michener.
  

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• noun Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
  Mill.
  

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• noun 5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831)
  President Monroe; Monroe.
  

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• noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
  Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray.
  

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• noun United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939)
  Naismith.
  

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• noun English film actor (1909-1984)
  James Mason; Mason.
  

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• noun English surgeon (1755-1824)
  Parkinson.
  

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• noun 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
  President Polk; James K. Polk; Polk; James Knox Polk.
  

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• noun English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889)
  Joule.
  

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• noun United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975)
  Jimmy Hoffa; Hoffa.
  

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• noun a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads
  James.
  
• noun a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri
  James.
  

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• noun outstanding United States tennis player (born in 1952)
  Jimmy Conors; Connors.
  

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• noun United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979)
  Farrell.
  

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• noun Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931)
  Harris; Frank Harris.
  

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• noun United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)
  James Grover Thurber; Thurber.
  

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• noun United States economist (1918-2002)
  Tobin.
  

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• noun Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
  Ussher; James Usher; Usher.
  

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• noun Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
  Ussher; James Usher; Usher.
  

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• noun United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)
  James Dewey Watson; Watson.
  

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• noun Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
  Watt.
  

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• noun United States poet (1849-1916)
  Riley.
  

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• noun United States senator who is remembered for his creation of grants that fund exchange programs of teachers and students between the United States and other countries (1905-1995)
  William Fulbright; Fulbright.
  

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• noun American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798)
  Wilson.
  

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• noun English architect (1746-1813)
  Wyatt.
  

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James"'s pow`der

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1. (Med.) Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.

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• noun United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
  James.
  

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• noun United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851)
  Audubon.
  

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• noun English playwright (1929-1994)
  Osborne; John Osborne.
  

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• noun Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935)
  John Macleod; Macleod.
  

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• noun the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)
  James; King James; James I.
  

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• noun an English translation of the Bible published in 1611
  Authorized Version; King James Bible.
  

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• noun the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)
  James; King James; James I.
  

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• noun an English translation of the Bible published in 1611
  Authorized Version; King James Bible.
  

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• verb jam a narrow band of frequencies
  
  • We can counter point-jamming effectively

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• noun United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943)
  Bobby Fischer; Fischer.
  

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• noun (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
  James; Saint James the Apostle; Saint James; St. James.
  

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• noun (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
  James; Saint James the Apostle; Saint James; St. James.
  

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• noun electronic jamming of a specific channel or frequency
  selective jamming.
  

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• noun English sociologist and economist and a central member of the Fabian Society (1859-1947)
  Webb; Sidney Webb; First Baron Passfield.
  

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• noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
  Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray.
  

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• noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
  Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray.
  

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• noun British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
  James Clark Ross; Ross.
  

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• noun Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923)
  Dewar.
  

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• noun English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941)
  James George Frazer; Frazer.
  

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• noun Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)
  James Matthew Barrie; J. M. Barrie; James Barrie; Barrie.
  

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• noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
  Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray.
  

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• noun English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899)
  Paget.
  

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• noun English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)
  McCartney; Paul McCartney.
  

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• noun Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)
  Simpson.
  

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• verb jam a single frequency
  
  • This operator is spot-jammed

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• noun electronic jamming of a specific channel or frequency
  selective jamming.
  

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• noun (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
  James; Saint James the Apostle; Saint James; St. James.
  

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• noun (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
  James; Saint James the Apostle; Saint James; St. James.
  

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• noun made with strawberries
  strawberry preserves.
  

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• noun a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move
  snarl-up.
  

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• noun United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)
  James.
  

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• noun United States historian (1885-1981)
  Durant; Will Durant.
  

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