JACOBS

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• JACOBS (noun)
  The noun JACOBS has 3 senses:

1. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)

2. United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)

3. Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)

  Familiarity information: JACOBS used as a noun is uncommon.

• JACOBS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jacobs; W. W. Jacobs; William Wymark Jacobs

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jacobs; Jane Jacobs

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Aletta Jacobs; Jacobs

Instance hypernyms:

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

 Context examples 

Thank you, Jacobs, put it here.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"When we first discovered it, it was like, 'Wow! There's just so much we don't know yet. And wouldn't that be really cool if it really works,'" Jacobs said.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

Jacobs, will you ask the Prime Minister to come up?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"The bottom line is that we don't know the answer," Jacobs acknowledged.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

Jacobs, bring down my despatch-box.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Albert Einstein College of Medicine microbiologist William Jacobs and colleagues previously discovered by accident that antioxidants like vitamin C stopped TB bacteria in a test tube from becoming persisters.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

The study in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy said Jacobs and colleagues found that TB-infected mice treated with two standard drugs plus a high dose of vitamin C had roughly tenfold fewer bacteria in their lungs after several weeks than mice treated with drugs alone.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)