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Jacob
[ jey-kuhb French zha-kawb ]
noun
- (in the Bible) the second son of Isaac, the twin brother of Esau, and father of the 12 patriarchs.
- ·çǾ [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 1920–2013, French geneticist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1965.
- a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “supplanter.”
Jacob
/ ˈɪə /
noun
- Old Testament the son of Isaac, twin brother of Esau, and father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel
- Also calledJacob sheep any of an ancient breed of sheep having a fleece with dark brown patches and two or four horns
Jacob
- French geneticist who studied how genes control cellular activity by directing the synthesis of proteins. With Jacques Monod, he theorized that there are genes that regulate the activity of other, neighboring genes. They also proposed the existence of messenger RNA.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Jacob1
Example Sentences
Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 6, Loyola 2: Jacob Madrid had two hits and three RBIs for the Knights battling for a Mission League playoff spot.
Jacob Tananbaum, a resident of the district, told me that he was out protesting because Lawler “thinks of himself as a moderate, but he's been backing this regime of the Donald Trump.”
A national power outage stopped play at the Madrid Open, with Britain's Jacob Fearnley among those forced off court.
Jacob’s book explores gender as a framework in the larger context of Holocaust memory, and Runsteldler’s text highlights a Black man’s struggles against Jim Crow racism of the early 1900s.
As Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Jacob deGrom traded zeroes at Globe Life Field in Texas last week, Kershaw sat in the dugout, mesmerized by what he could only describe as an exhibition in pitching excellence.
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