JURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jury mean? 

• JURY (noun)
  The noun JURY has 2 senses:

1. a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law

2. a committee appointed to judge a competition

  Familiarity information: JURY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("jury" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Meronyms (members of "jury"):

juror; juryman; jurywoman (someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jury"):

grand jury (a jury to inquire into accusations of crime and to evaluate the grounds for indictments)

hung jury (a jury that is unable to agree on a verdict (the result is a mistrial))

petit jury; petty jury (a jury of 12 to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings)

blue ribbon jury; special jury (a jury whose members are selected for special knowledge for a case involving complicated issues)

Holonyms ("jury" is a member of...):

court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A committee appointed to judge a competition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

jury; panel

Hypernyms ("jury" is a kind of...):

commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)

 Context examples 

However, that is for a British jury to decide.

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

I really think we have enough to go before a jury.

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

She and Hans, without leaving their seats, brought in the jury's verdict of guilty.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the coroner’s jury.

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

I knew that the facts were true, but could I help to make a jury of countrymen believe so fantastic a story?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are a courtroom lawyer, for example, your opening and closing statements will now be off the charts with your moving ability to persuade others (i.e., the jury).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The first affirmed, “the justest method would be, to lay a certain tax upon vices and folly; and the sum fixed upon every man to be rated, after the fairest manner, by a jury of his neighbours.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The grand jury rejected the bill, on its being proved that I was on the Orkney Islands at the hour the body of my friend was found; and a fortnight after my removal I was liberated from prison.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Although the findings suggest that high calcium intake may be protective, the jury is still out on whether people should alter their calcium intake to prevent the onset or progression of AMD, said the study’s lead investigator, Emily Chew, M.D., director of the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications and the deputy clinical director at National Eye Institute (NEI).

(No evidence that calcium increases risk of age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

Now, gentleman of the jury, you have heard the evidence.

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