(v. t.) To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.
(n.) A thrust or stab.
Example Sentences:
(1) When you’ve got a man with a longer jab, you can’t throw single shots.
(2) I haven't had the swine flu jab yet because I'm not in a risk group; but as soon as I can get it, I will.
(3) Simultaneous determination of antigliadin (AGA) and antiendomysium (EMA) levels, and gliadin and tissue absorption studies, showed that JAB and AGA are different, whereas JAB and EMA are probably identical.
(4) The peculiar, sharp, jabbing pain, which has been rarely reported at the onset of intracranial hemorrhage, was followed by acute elevation of blood pressure, arrhythmia, cardiac and respiratory arrests.
(5) From 2008 girls aged 12 and 13 have been offered jabs to protect themselves again the human papilloma virus , which causes most cases of cervical cancer.
(6) And while he got in a few jabs at Jeb Bush and rolled his eyes at the obligatory protesters who shouted “we loved veterans, Trump loves war,” it didn’t have the trademark fireworks of a Trump rally.
(7) Inviting him on while feinting and flicking out the jab.
(8) The government's advisers on vaccination are considering whether to recommend the move after health secretary Andrew Lansley asked them to investigate whether protection against flu should be offered to groups other than those who already get a free jab because they are defined as at-risk from the virus.
(9) Then Murray goes on the front foot, jabbing away a volley to make it 40-15, but Federer then wrong-foots his foe with a feathery forehand at the net to hold.
(10) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(11) she cried, jabbing the sculpture with a pole until it crumpled.
(12) At the Meadow Inn hotel, these statistics are embodied in a depressing tableau of punters slouched on stools, jabbing at flashing buttons.
(13) Body work is becoming my signature,” said Jack, whose output included 52 power punches and 26 jabs to the body.
(14) Tillerson’s counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, tweeted back a jab about the shadow of the Russia investigations hanging over the Trump presidency: “For their own sake, US officials should worry more about saving their own regime than changing Iran’s, where 75% of people just voted.” There is growing concern among US allies in Europe that the Trump administration has struck a posture towards Iran before deciding on a strategy for addressing its influence in the region, and anxiety that such posturing could become louder and more dangerous as Trump feels hemmed in by investigations into his campaign’s Russia links.
(15) In the pre-bout publicity, Field jabs: “A major aim of the work and pensions committee representatives will be to test how adequately both organisations have carried out their duties to help protect members’ pensions under the existing law, whether the existing law is inadequate and, if so, how should it be strengthened, or whether existing powers are adequate but were not fully exercised.” Seconds out.
(16) Otamendi has a habit of diving into challenges and Guardiola even gave his player a little jab in the ribs.
(17) However, he praised the former secretary of state’s support for the Iran deal and took a jab at Republican candidate and high school classmate Jeb Bush for drinking “neo-con kool aid” in saying on Thursday that removing Saddam Hussein from power was “a good deal”.
(18) Except for the night he cold-cocked Victor Ortiz, Mayweather has never been a committed one-shot closer (although Ricky Hatton might disagree), preferring attritional pain, and Alvarez seemed prepared to soak up the string of jabs in the eighth that lengthened the American's lead to uncatchable – except by knockout.
(19) Founded in the 1990s by Jimmy Choo, a Malaysian bespoke shoemaker, and the British designer Tamara Mellon, the firm went through the hands of several private equity firms before JAB bought the brand for more than £500m in 2011.
(20) The children, aged about 10 years old, had been given the first MMR jab but not all had the booster.
Jib
Definition:
(v. i.) A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.
(v. i.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
(v. i.) To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been widely performed for treatment of excessive obesity.
(2) Thirty women, operated on with JIB 11 to 17 years earlier, were examined by colonoscopy with multiple biopsies, systematically taken for histologic evaluation and flow cytometric DNA analysis.
(3) Numbers of intestinal goblet cells containing specific acid mucins were determined in male Sprague-Dawley rats receiving azoxymethane (total dose 90 mg kg-1) with or without jejunoileal bypass (JIB).
(4) Contents of sulphomucins and especially sialomucins were consistently higher in the small bowel and colon of rats receiving azoxymethane alone, but again the highest values were observed in animals with azoxymethane plus JIB.
(5) Malabsorption of calcium and low fasting urinary calcium excretion in the JIB patients were associated with high tubular reabsorption of calcium, the latter presumably attributable to a compensatory increase in circulating parathyroid hormone (PTH).
(6) Arthritis after JIB appears to be associated with circulating immune complexes containing secretory IgA.
(7) The use of a protein supplemented diet alone markedly reduced the detrimental effects of JIB.
(8) In Experiment 1 rats given a cherry-flavored solution immediately after JIB surgery subsequently displayed a strong aversion to the cherry flavor compared to Bypass and Sham-Bypass control groups.
(9) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been a widespread operation for treatment of morbid obesity.
(10) Louis van Gaal likes the cut of the German’s jib, and would apparently cost around £20m.
(11) Forty-five patients who had been subjected to jejuno-ileal bypass (JIB) surgery for morbid obesity and 10 obese nonsurgery subjects were studied.
(12) We conclude that hyperoxaluria in JIB patients is associated both with intestinal hyperabsorption and with enhanced tubular secretion of oxalate, and that in some patients with IHC hypercalciuria is due to reduced tubular reabsorption of calcium.
(13) Patients with JIB have a marked and persistent increase in cell proliferation in the large intestine and may be at increased risk of developing colonic cancer.
(14) Still, if you like the cut of Ukip's jib, you might like to think of its members as bold trailblazers for the future of the radical right.
(15) Particularly well-documented are the feeding and drinking effects of JIB and vagotomy.
(16) In rats JIB causes adaptive colonic hyperplasia and enhances colorectal neoplasia.
(17) Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been widely used to treat patients with morbid obesity for the past 20 years.
(18) That dress earned universal praise for its elegance, boldness and simplicity, though some jibbed at its sleevelessness.
(19) The jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has met with increasing disfavor as a result of its unacceptably high complication rate.
(20) The role of the kidney in states of hyperoxaluria and hypercalciuria was investigated in seven patients with hyperoxaluria after jejunoileal bypass (JIB) and six patients with idiopathic hypercalciuria (IHC).