dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/jib_MW.json

{
  "jibe":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to be in accord : agree":[
        "\u2014 usually used with with a story that doesn't jibe with the facts"
      ],
      ": to cause (a sail or vessel) to jibe":[
        "this maneuver was bound to force her to jibe her mainsail from one side to the other",
        "\u2014 Jack London"
      ],
      ": to change a vessel's course when sailing with the wind so that as the stern passes through the eye of the wind the boom swings to the opposite side":[],
      ": to deride or tease with taunting words":[
        "boxers gibing each other before a fight"
      ],
      ": to shift suddenly and forcibly from one side to the other":[
        "\u2014 used of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom was the most amazed when he saw me work the boat to and again in the sea by the rudder, and how the sail jibed , and filled this way or that way as the course we sailed changed \u2014 Daniel Defoe the cutter had lost all four foremost men by the violent jibing of a boom \u2014 Herman Melville"
      ],
      ": to utter taunting words":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "That did not jibe with any theoretical models, all of which said the heliosphere should expand and contract in sync with the sun's 11-year cycle. \u2014 Tim Folger, Scientific American , 18 June 2022",
      "But these ambitious promises don\u2019t necessarily jibe with the fact that most homeless people do not want to live in group shelters, according to Rand Corp. research published last week. \u2014 Benjamin Oreskesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2022",
      "However, that account does not jibe with the confession Peck reportedly made to the police at the time of his arrest. \u2014 Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com , 27 Jan. 2022",
      "Sometimes games are Saturdays morning and Sunday afternoons, which jibe with his schedule. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 24 Jan. 2022",
      "But that desire for normalcy doesn\u2019t jibe with the unpredictability of a virus. \u2014 Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "Facuss\u00e9 was excited by the possibility that the Administration\u2019s goals might jibe with those of his company, Dinant\u2014a consortium with interests in palm oil, snack foods, and detergent. \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 8 Nov. 2021",
      "That Benjamin\u2014or any Jew, North or South\u2014would defend slavery simply does not jibe with my practice or understanding of Jewish tradition. \u2014 Diane Cole, WSJ , 24 Sep. 2021",
      "The celebration is universal, which does not always jibe with the petty meanness of the Shakespeare. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1693, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
      "1813, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":"Verb",
      "perhaps modification of Dutch gijben":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8j\u012bb"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105114",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "jib-headed":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": running up to a point at the head like a jib : triangular \u2014 compare gaff-headed":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jib entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-070601"
  },
  "jib":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to refuse to proceed further : balk":[],
      ": the projecting arm of a crane":[],
      ": a derrick boom":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8jib"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably from jib to shift from one side of a ship to the other, perhaps from jib entry 2":"Verb",
      "origin unknown":"Noun",
      "probably by shortening & alteration from gibbet":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1811, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "1661, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1764, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-075825"
  },
  "jibaro":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a Puerto Rican small farmer, rural worker, or laborer especially of mountainous regions":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "American Spanish j\u00edbaro, g\u00edbaro , probably from j\u00edbaro Jivaro":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-103545"
  },
  "jibhead":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small iron bar for stretching the head of a jib when the point of the sail has been cut off":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jib entry 1 + head":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-053243"
  },
  "jib guy":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one of two or more lateral stays running to the head of the jibboom":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jib entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-110214"
  },
  "jibe-o":{
    "type":[
      "interjection"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "j\u012b\u02c8b\u014d",
      "\u02c8j\u012b(\u02cc)b\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jibe entry 1 + -o":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-115814"
  },
  "jib-header":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a jib-headed topsail":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-183902"
  },
  "jibi":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small chiefly yellowish green extinct bird ( Hemignathus obscurus ellisianus ) of Oahu":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8j\u0113(\u02cc)b\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-125435"
  },
  "jib iron":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": jib traveler":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jib entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-160127"
  },
  "jib traveler":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an iron ring to which the tack of the jib on some cutters is made fast and which travels on the bowsprit":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jib entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-164510"
  },
  "jib topsail":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small jib occasionally used and set above and outside of all the other jibs":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jib entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-191831"
  },
  "jibstay":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a stay on which a jib is set":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jib entry 1 + stay":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-004602"
  },
  "jib sheet":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": either of two ropes which lead from the clew of a jib to port and starboard respectively and by which the sail is trimmed":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jib entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-010122"
  },
  "jib-o-jib":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small jib set outside of the flying jib":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8jib\u0259\u02cc jib"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jib entry 1 + o (of) + jib":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-013048"
  },
  "jiboa":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of several large South American boas":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "j\u0259\u0307\u02c8b\u014d\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Portuguese jib\u00f3ia , from Tupi":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-020545"
  },
  "jib netting":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a triangular safety netting rigged under a jibboom":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "jib entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-022302"
  }
}