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job
English
Etymology
From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.
Folk etymology linked the word to Job, the biblical character who suffered many misfortunes; for semantic development of misery and labor, compare Vulgar Latin *tripalium (“instrument of torture”) and its Romance descendants like Spanish trabajo and French travail (whence borrowed into English travail).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: j?b, IPA(key): /d???b/
- (General American) enPR: j?b, IPA(key): /d???b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Noun
job (plural jobs)
- A task.
- 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire
- And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
- 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Here I am at my new job!
- Here I am at my new job!
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (colloquial) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.
Translations
Verb
job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement
- Authors of all work, to job for the season.
- a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst
- And judges job, and bishops bite the town.
- 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst
- To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
- a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore
- To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises
- And while the Tympan is coming , he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it , as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position , as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- 1848, William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 59,[1]
- […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...
- 1848, William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 59,[1]
Translations
Derived terms
See also
- employment
- work
- labour
Anagrams
- obj
Danish
Etymology
From English job.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d?j?b?]
Noun
job n
- job
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??p/
- Hyphenation: job
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
job f (plural jobs)
- (chiefly Belgium) job
- Synonym: baan
Usage notes
Job is the default word for a job in Belgium. In the Netherlands baan is the default; however, job is sometimes used informally or in certain sectors (e.g. marketing), but it may also be considered pretentious due to an association with yuppies.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??b/
Noun
job m or f (plural jobs)
- (informal) job (employment role)
- (Quebec, Louisiana, informal) work
Usage notes
- This term is feminine in Quebec and some parts of Louisiana and masculine elsewhere.
Synonyms
- (informal) boulot
Further reading
- “job” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Noun
job m (invariable)
- job (employment role, computing task)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??bi/
- (Rarely) IPA(key): /?d??b/
Noun
job m (plural jobs)
- (computing) job (task carried out in batch mode)
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space
English
Etymology
From Middle English space, from Anglo-Norman space, variant of espace, espas et al., and Old French spaze, variant of espace, from Latin spatium, from Proto-Indo-European *speh?- 'to stretch, to pull'.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sp?s, IPA(key): /spe?s/
- Hyphenation: space
- Rhymes: -e?s
Noun
space (countable and uncountable, plural spaces)
- (heading) Of time.
- (now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. [from 14thc.]
- A specific (specified) period of time. [from 14thc.]
- 1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey
- I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.
- 2007, Andy Bull, The Guardian, 20 October:
- The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.
- 1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while. [from 15thc.]
- 1923, PG Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves
- Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.
- 1923, PG Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves
- (now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. [from 14thc.]
- (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
- Distance between things. [from 14thc.]
- 2001, Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 3 November:
- Which means that for every car there was 10 years ago, there are now 40. Which means - and this is my own, not totally scientific, calculation - that the space between cars on the roads in 1991 was roughly 39 car lengths, because today there is no space at all.
- 2001, Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 3 November:
- Physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume (sometimes for or to do something). [from 14thc.]
- 2007, Dominic Bradbury, The Guardian, 12 May:
- They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working.
- 2007, Dominic Bradbury, The Guardian, 12 May:
- Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this. [from 17thc.]
- 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, II
- Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.
- 1880, Popular Science, August:
- These are not questions which can be decided by reference to our space intuitions, for our intuitions are confined to Euclidean space, and even there are insufficient, approximative.
- 2007, Anushka Asthana & David Smith, The Observer, 15 April:
- The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.
- 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, II
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere; outer space. [from 17thc.]
- 1901, HG Wells, The First Men in the Moon:
- After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.
- 2010, The Guardian, 9 August:
- The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today.
- 1901, HG Wells, The First Men in the Moon:
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom. [from 20thc.]
- 1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:
- Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space.
- 2008, Jimmy Treigle, Walking on Water
- "I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space."
- 1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:
- Distance between things. [from 14thc.]
- (heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. [from 14thc.]
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- 2000, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender
- The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard.
- 2012, Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 16 July:
- Converted from vast chambers beneath the old Bankside Power Station which once held a million gallons of oil, the new public areas consist of two large circular spaces for performances and film installations, plus a warren of smaller rooms.
- (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. [from 15thc.]
- 1849, John Pyke Hullah, translating Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing
- The note next above Sol is La; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space; Si, on the 3rd line, &c.
- 1990, Sammy Nzioki, Music Time
- The lines and spaces of the staff are named according to the first seven letters of the alphabet, that is, A B C D E F G.
- 1849, John Pyke Hullah, translating Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap. [from 16thc.]
- 1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation
- According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words).
- 2005, Dr BR Kishore, Dynamic Business Letter Writing:
- It should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items.
- 1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation
- (letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad). [from 17thc.]
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v.2, pp.240–1:
- If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thru?ts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing tho?e Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ?tand Loo?e in the Form; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little; which bowing makes the Letters on each ?ide of the Space keep their parallel di?tance; for by its Spring it thru?ts the Letters that were clo?ed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no clo?ing.
- 1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, p.110:
- Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.
- 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed., p.91:
- Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v.2, pp.240–1:
- A gap; an empty place. [from 17thc.]
- 2004, Harry M Benshoff (ed.), Queer Cinéma
- Mainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir.
- 2009, Barbara L. Lev, From Pink to Green
- A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.
- 2004, Harry M Benshoff (ed.), Queer Cinéma
- (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
- (countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space). [from 20thc.]
- (countable, figuratively) A marketplace for goods or services.
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. [from 14thc.]
Quotations
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:space.
Synonyms
- (free time): leisure time, spare time
- (specific period of time): duration, span; see also Thesaurus:period
- (undefined period of time): spell, while; see also Thesaurus:uncertain period
- (distance between things): break, gap; see also Thesaurus:interspace
- (intervening contents of a volume): volume
- (space occupied by or intended for a person or thing): room, volume
- (area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing): place, spot, volume
- (area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum): outer space
- (gap between written characters): blank, gap, whitespace (graphic design)
- (metal type): quad, quadrat
- (set of points each uniquely specified by a set of coordinates):
- (personal freedom to think or be oneself):
- (state of mind one is in when daydreaming):
- (generalized construct or set in mathematics):
- (one of the five basic elements in Indian philosophy): ether
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
Punctuation
Verb
space (third-person singular simple present spaces, present participle spacing, simple past and past participle spaced)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- But she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- (transitive) To set some distance apart.
- Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.
- The cities are evenly spaced.
- To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
- This paragraph seems badly spaced.
- (transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.
- The captain spaced the traitors.
- (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
Derived terms
- spaced
- spaced-out
- unspace
Translations
Related terms
- espace
- spacious
- spatial
References
- space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- -scape, EAPCs, EPACs, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, scape
Old French
Noun
space m (oblique plural spaces, nominative singular spaces, nominative plural space)
- Alternative form of espace
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