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{
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"jibe":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to be in accord : agree":[
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"\u2014 usually used with with a story that doesn't jibe with the facts"
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],
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": to cause (a sail or vessel) to jibe":[
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"this maneuver was bound to force her to jibe her mainsail from one side to the other",
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"\u2014 Jack London"
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],
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": 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":[],
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": to deride or tease with taunting words":[
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"boxers gibing each other before a fight"
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],
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": to shift suddenly and forcibly from one side to the other":[
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"\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"
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],
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": to utter taunting words":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"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",
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"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",
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"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",
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"Sometimes games are Saturdays morning and Sunday afternoons, which jibe with his schedule. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 24 Jan. 2022",
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"But that desire for normalcy doesn\u2019t jibe with the unpredictability of a virus. \u2014 Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com , 7 Jan. 2022",
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"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",
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"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",
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"The celebration is universal, which does not always jibe with the petty meanness of the Shakespeare. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Aug. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1693, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
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"1813, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"origin unknown":"Verb",
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"perhaps modification of Dutch gijben":"Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8j\u012bb"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105114",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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}
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} |