<B>journalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the occupation of writing for, editing, managing, or publishing a newspaper or magazine. <DD><B> 2. </B>the gathering, writing, and editing of material for other news media, such as radio and television. <BR> <I>Ex. TV journalism.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>writing by journalists. <BR> <I>Ex. That article is an example of first-class journalism.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>newspapers, magazines, and press or wire services as a group. </DL>
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<B>journalist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person engaged in journalism. Reporters are journalists. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who keeps a journal or diary. </DL>
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<B>journalistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like journalism or journalists. <BR> <I>Ex. Because of a journalistic blunder, announcement of the foreign-aid program ... caused a headline hassle (Time).</I> adv. <B>journalistically.</B> </DL>
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<B>journalize, </B>verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to enter or record in a journal. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to keep or make entries in a journal. <DD><B> 2. </B>to do the work of a journalist. noun <B>journalizer.</B> </DL>
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<B>journey, </B>noun, pl. <B>-neys,</B> verb, <B>-neyed,</B> <B>-neying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a traveling from one place to another; trip. <BR> <I>Ex. a journey around the world.</I> (SYN) excursion, tour, voyage, jaunt. <DD><B> 2. </B>a distance traveled. <BR> <I>Ex. a week's journey.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a day's travel. <BR> <I>Ex. a place ten journeys from here.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to take a trip; travel. <BR> <I>Ex. to journey to Europe. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south (Genesis 12:9).</I> noun <B>journeyer.</B> </DL>
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<B>journeyman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a workman who knows his trade. <BR> <I>Ex. The journeyman printer was much more accurate than his young apprentice.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a workman who has completed his apprenticeship and is qualified to practice his trade, but has not become an employer or master workman. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a workman hired by the day. </DL>
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<B>journeywork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the work of a journeyman. </DL>
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<B>journo, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British Informal.) a journalist. <BR> <I>Ex. Lunch tends to be in a wine bar or pub with fellow journos, talking shop (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>joust, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a combat between two knights on horseback, armed with lances, especially as part of a tournament. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to fight with lances on horseback. Knights used to joust with each other for sport. <DD><B> 2. </B>to fight or parry; maneuver. <BR> <I>Ex. a company financially stronger, and better able to joust for a bigger slice of the auto market (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD> Also, <B>just.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>jousts,</B> </I>a tournament. <BR> <I>Ex. Down to the meadow where the jousts were held (Tennyson).</I> noun <B>jouster.</B> </DL>
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<B>Jove, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Roman Mythology.) the god Jupiter, ruler of gods and men. <BR> <I>Ex. Keep in mind what Jove decrees (John Dryden).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the planet Jupiter. <BR> <I>Ex. the moons of Jove (William Cowper).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>by Jove,</B> </I>an exclamation of surprise, pleasure, disgust, or disappointment. <BR> <I>Ex. By Jove, I forgot my eyeglasses!</I> </DL>
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<B>jovial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> good-hearted and full of fun; good-humored and merry; jolly; convivial. <BR> <I>Ex. Santa Claus is pictured as a jovial old fellow. Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) mirthful. adv. <B>jovially.</B> noun <B>jovialness.</B> </DL>
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<B>Jovial, </B>adjective. =Jovian.</DL>
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<B>joviality, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being jovial; jollity; merriment. </DL>
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<B>Jovian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like the god Jove or Jupiter. <DD><B> 2. </B>of the planet Jupiter. </DL>
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<B>jow, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to ring or toll (a bell). <DD><I>noun </I> a ring or toll, as of a bell. </DL>
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<B>jowl</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the jaw, especially the underjaw. <BR> <I>Ex. fat jowls rolling over his collar.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the cheek. <BR> <I>Ex. jowls puffed out by a mouthful of popcorn.</I> </DL>
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<B>jowl</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a fold of flesh hanging from the jaw. <DD><B> 2. </B>the dewlap of cattle. <DD><B> 3. </B>the wattle of a fowl. </DL>
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<B>jowl</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the head and adjacent parts of a fish, as of the salmon and sturgeon. </DL>
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<B>jowl</B> (4), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British and Scottish Dialect.) <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to strike, knock, bump, or dash. <BR> <I>Ex. That skull ... how the knave jowls it to the ground (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to shake or jolt. <DD><B> 3. </B>to toll or ring (a bell). <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to strike; knock; peck. <DD><B> 2. </B>to jolt along. <DD><B> 3. </B>to toll, as a bell does. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a knock; bump. <DD><B> 2. </B>a stroke of a bell. </DL>
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<B>jowled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a jowl or jowls; jowly. </DL>
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<B>jowly, </B>adjective, <B>jowlier,</B> <B>jowliest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> having large or prominent jowls; having a double chin. <BR> <I>Ex. a red-faced Scot of two hundred and fifty pounds, jowly and lugubrious of expression (Maclean's)</I> noun <B>jowliness.</B> </DL>
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<B>joy, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a glad feeling; glad behavior; strong feeling of pleasure; happiness. <BR> <I>Ex. The little boy jumped for joy when he saw the circus. On with the dance! let joy be unconfined (Byron).</I> (SYN) gladness, delight, rapture, bliss. <DD><B> 2. </B>something that causes gladness or happiness. <BR> <I>Ex. On a hot day, a cool swim is a joy. A thing of beauty is a joy forever (Keats).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the expression of happiness; outward rejoicing. <BR> <I>Ex. The joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off (Nehemiah 12:43).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a state of happiness, especially the bliss of heaven. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Archaic.) glad praise or worship. <BR> <I>Ex. Glory and joy and honour to our Lord (Tennyson).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be joyful. <BR> <I>Ex. those cruel potentates of the school, who joy in the smart of their subjects (Washington Irving).</I> (SYN) rejoice, delight. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>(Archaic.) to gladden; delight. <BR> <I>Ex. a sight that joys the heart.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to enjoy. <BR> <I>Ex. I, Who might have lived, and joy'd immortal bliss (Milton).</I> adj. <B>joyless.</B> adv. <B>joylessly.</B> noun <B>joylessness.</B> </DL>
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<B>joyance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD><B> 1. </B>joy; gladness; gaiety. <BR> <I>Ex. With my clear keen joyance Languor cannot be (Shelley).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>merrymaking; festive gaiety. <BR> <I>Ex. His sports were fair, his joyance innocent (Edmund Spenser).</I> </DL>
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<B>Joycean, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or characteristic of James Joyce (1882-1941) or his writings. <BR> <I>Ex. The novel records, in Joycean confusion but with no trace of Joyce's learning and wit ... (Atlantic).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a follower or student of the works of James Joyce. </DL>
<B>joyous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> joyful; glad; gay. <BR> <I>Ex. a joyous song, a joyous person, a joyous city.</I> (SYN) merry, elated. adv. <B>joyously.</B> noun <B>joyousness.</B> </DL>
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<B>joypop, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-popped,</B> <B>-popping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) to use narcotics occasionally, not as an addict does. noun <B>joypopper.</B> </DL>
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<B>joy ride,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a ride in an automobile or other vehicle for pleasure, especially when it is driven recklessly or without the owner's permission. <DD><B> 2. </B>a ride for pleasure in any vehicle. </DL>
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<B>joy-ride, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-rode,</B> <B>-ridden,</B> <B>-riding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) to take a joy ride. noun <B>joy-rider.</B> </DL>
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<B>joy stick,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the control lever of an airplane, usually of a small plane. <DD><B> 2. </B>the control lever of an automobile, submarine, or the like. <DD><B> 3. </B>any similar control level, as that of a computer game. <BR> <I>Ex. The joy stick allows them to rotate the object on the screen (Kenneth Engel).</I> </DL>
<B>J.P.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Justice of the Peace. </DL>
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<B>J particle,</B> =psi particle.</DL>
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<B>Jr.</B> or <B>jr.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Junior. <BR> <I>Ex. John Parker, Jr., is the son of John Parker, Sr.</I> </DL>
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<B>J.R.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> King James (Latin, <I>Jacobus Rex</I>). </DL>
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<B>J.S.D.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Doctor of Juristic Science (Latin, <I>Juris Scientiae Doctor</I>). </DL>
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<B>jt.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> joint. </DL>
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<B>Jth.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in the Apocrypha) Judith. </DL>
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<B>juba, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a characteristic dance of plantation Negroes in the southern United States, performed by one or more dancers, while the spectators clap hands, pat the knee or thigh, stamp with the foot, and sing a refrain in which the word <I>juba</I> is frequently repeated. </DL>
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<B>Jubal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the inventor of musical instruments (in the Bible, Genesis 4:21). </DL>
