JACOB

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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')

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Jacob" is a kind of...):

patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)

Synonyms:

Francois Jacob; Jacob

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

biochemist (someone with special training in biochemistry)

Credits

Context examples:

The study in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy said Jacobs and colleagues found that TB-infected mice treated with two standard drugs plus a high dose of vitamin C had roughly tenfold fewer bacteria in their lungs after several weeks than mice treated with drugs alone.