📖 J — The English dictionary · page 8

judicial — Everyday, meaning 1: (law) To do with judges, law courts and the way the law is applied.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) Done by a court or a judge, as in a judicial decision.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (law) The judicial branch of government is the part made up of courts, separate from the lawmakers and the government.↗ Example: The judicial system makes sure trials are fair.↗ · In the USA, the Supreme Court leads the judicial branch.↗ · The judge made a judicial decision.↗ · A judicial review checks if the government followed the law.↗ · Judges must be free from pressure, so the judicial system is independent.↗ · We drew a poster of the three branches: legislative, executive and judicial.↗ · The case went through a long judicial process.↗

judicious — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Judicious means wise and sensible, showing good judgement.↗ Example: Making a judicious choice, she saved half her pocket money.↗ · The judicious use of water helps in a drought.↗ · It was judicious to wait until the storm passed.↗ · The captain made a judicious decision.↗ · A judicious editor cut the boring parts.↗ · Use glue judiciously, not too much.↗ · By the judicious care, however, of her now cautious parent she was restored to physical and moral respectability.↗

judo — Everyday, meaning 1: Judo is a Japanese martial art and Olympic sport in which you try to throw or hold down your opponent using balance and skill, not punches or kicks.↗ Example: I go to judo every Thursday.↗ · She got her yellow belt in judo.↗ · In judo you learn to fall without getting hurt.↗ · Judo players bow to each other before a match.↗ · Judo is an Olympic sport.↗ · He threw his partner onto the mat with a judo move.↗ · Judo means «the gentle way» in Japanese.↗ · We wear a white jacket called a judogi for judo.↗

jug — Everyday, meaning 1: A jug is a container with a handle and a spout (lip) for pouring liquids like water, milk or juice.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A jug of something is the amount a jug holds: a jug of lemonade.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A measuring jug has lines on its side to show how much liquid is in it.↗ Example: A jug holds 2 litres of juice.↗ · She pours 5 glasses from the jug.↗ · How many jugs are needed for 10 litres?↗ · Each glass takes 200 ml from the jug.↗ · Fill the measuring jug up to the 500 ml line.↗ · There's a jug of water on every table.↗ · He knocked over the milk jug.↗ · Mum made a big jug of lemonade for the party.↗

juggle — Everyday, meaning 1: To keep several objects moving in the air by throwing and catching them over and over.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To try to deal with several jobs or activities at the same time.↗ Example: The clown can juggle five balls.↗ · I'm learning to juggle with scarves.↗ · Mum juggles two jobs and us.↗ · He juggled the football with his feet.↗ · It is hard to juggle homework, swimming and piano.↗ · She dropped the plates while trying to juggle them.↗

juggler — Everyday, meaning 1: A juggler is a person who throws and catches balls, rings or clubs in the air to entertain people.↗ Example: The juggler kept five balls in the air at once.↗ · A juggler came to the fair with three flaming torches.↗ · The juggler bowed when the crowd clapped.↗

juggling — Everyday, meaning 1: Juggling is throwing and catching several objects, like balls, so that at least one is always in the air.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Juggling also means trying to do or manage several things at the same time (juggling homework and sport).↗ Example: She practised juggling with three balls.↗ · The clown was juggling plates and hats.↗ · Juggling scarves is easier than juggling balls.↗ · We learned juggling in circus club.↗ · Mum is juggling work and looking after the baby.↗ · The street performer was juggling flaming torches, which is very dangerous.↗

juice — Everyday, meaning 1: Juice is the liquid that comes out of fruit or vegetables, like orange juice or apple juice.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Juice is a drink made from this liquid.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Juices are liquids in the body that help digest food (stomach juices) or come out of meat when cooked.↗ Example: Mia drank 300 ml of juice.↗ · A bottle of juice costs 2 dollars.↗ · They made 4 litres of juice.↗ · Each child gets 1 box of juice.↗ · She squeezed the juice from three lemons.↗ · Can I have a glass of apple juice, please?↗ · The peach was so ripe that juice ran down my chin.↗ · Lemon juice tastes sour.↗ · Ink he had none, so he used the juice of blackberries or cherries.↗ · Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?↗ (Writings JOB.6.6, JPS 1917)↗ · I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, that thou mightest instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.↗ (Writings SNG.8.2, JPS 1917)↗

juicy — Everyday, meaning 1: Juicy means full of juice, such as a ripe fruit or well-cooked meat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Juicy (informal) means interesting and exciting, especially gossip or news.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Juicy can mean large or rewarding, like a juicy prize.↗ Example: This peach is so juicy that it's dripping.↗ · Watermelons are juicy because they are mostly water.↗ · The burger was hot and juicy.↗ · She had some juicy gossip about the new teacher.↗ · Pick the juiciest orange in the bowl.↗ · The detective found a juicy clue.↗ · In imagination he saw the heath blossom and become purple with rich juicy berries, and the elder-bushes and lime-trees at Norre Vosborg in flower.↗

julian — Everyday, meaning 1: Julian is a boy's name (a name).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Julian means to do with Julius Caesar, as in the Julian calendar, the calendar he brought in.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Julian of Norwich was an English woman who wrote about God's love (a name).↗ Example: Julian is the oldest of the Famous Five.↗ · Julius Caesar started the Julian calendar.↗ · My friend Julian is great at chess.↗ · Some churches still use the Julian calendar for feasts.↗ · Julian of Norwich wrote «All shall be well».↗ · The Julian calendar was slightly too long each year.↗

july — Everyday, meaning 1: July is the seventh month of the year.↗ It has 31 days.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the northern half of the world (USA, UK, Canada, Ireland) July is summer and often the summer holidays; in Australia and New Zealand it is winter.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: July can also be a person's first name, as in an old tale about a girl and her brother.↗ Example: July has 31 days.↗ · She read 2 books a week in July.↗ · The fair is in July.↗ · How many days in June and July?↗ · July comes after June and before August.↗ · In the USA many families have barbecues in July.↗ · In Australia July is in the middle of winter.↗ · Our summer holiday starts in July.↗ · But she was not without a protector; her younger brother, JULY, was with her.↗

jumble — Everyday, meaning 1: An untidy mix of things in no order.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To mix things up so they are out of order.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK) Old things given to be sold cheaply, as at a jumble sale.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A word puzzle where the letters are mixed up (a word jumble).↗ Example: My drawer is a jumble of pencils and string.↗ · Someone jumbled up the puzzle pieces.↗ · Unjumble these letters: T-A-C.↗ · We sold old toys at the school jumble sale (UK).↗ · The story got jumbled when he told it fast.↗ · Put the jumbled sentences in the right order.↗ · There was a jumble of shoes by the door.↗

jumbo — Everyday, meaning 1: Jumbo means very large, bigger than usual.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A jumbo, or jumbo jet, is a very big passenger plane, like the Boeing 747.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) Jumbo was a famous huge elephant in the 1800s, shown at London Zoo and in an American circus.↗ Example: We bought a jumbo pack of crayons.↗ · The jumbo jet carried over 400 people.↗ · He ate a jumbo hot dog at the fair.↗ · Jumbo the elephant was famous long ago.↗ · Our class made a jumbo birthday card.↗ · The shop sells jumbo bags of popcorn.↗

jump — Everyday, meaning 1: To jump is to push yourself up or forward into the air with your legs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To jump is to move suddenly because you are surprised or scared.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To jump is to rise suddenly, like a price or a number.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A jump is one push into the air, or the distance of it.↗ Example: The frog jumped 39 inches.↗ · The mouse jumped 9 inches less than the frog.↗ · She did 20 jumps.↗ · How far did the grasshopper jump?↗ · We jump rope at recess.↗ · The loud bang made me jump.↗ · On the number line, make jumps of 5 from 0 to 30.↗ · The price of apples jumped last week.↗ · The horse jumped over the fence.↗ · Don't jump to conclusions before you read the whole story.↗ · Perhaps he could jump over it.↗

jumper — Everyday, meaning 1: In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a jumper is a warm knitted top with long sleeves that you pull over your head (in the US: a sweater).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the US, a jumper is a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse (UK: pinafore).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A jumper is a person or animal that jumps, like a high jumper.↗ Example: Put your jumper on — it's cold outside.↗ · My school jumper is navy blue.↗ · Grandma knitted me a woolly jumper.↗ · We wore silly Christmas jumpers.↗ · He is the best high jumper in our school.↗ · Kangaroos are amazing jumpers.↗ · In America, a jumper is a kind of dress.↗ · Write your name in your jumper so it doesn't get lost.↗ · Three famous jumpers were they, as everyone would say, when they all met together in the room.↗

jumpy — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Nervous and easily frightened or startled.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Moving in sudden jerks; not smooth (a jumpy video).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (money) Going up and down quickly and unpredictably, like prices.↗ Example: After the ghost story, everyone was a bit jumpy.↗ · The cat is jumpy during fireworks.↗ · I always feel jumpy before a big test.↗ · The video was jumpy because the internet was slow.↗ · The horse was jumpy, so we spoke to it softly.↗ · The graph of the temperature looked jumpy because it changed every hour.↗ · Dad gets jumpy when the car makes a strange noise.↗

junction — Everyday, meaning 1: A place where two or more roads, railway lines or paths meet or cross.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A place where things join, like wires or rivers.↗ Example: Stop at the junction and look both ways.↗ · Turn left at the next junction.↗ · A T-junction is where one road meets another like the letter T.↗ · Cars slow down at a busy junction.↗ · Our train waited at the railway junction.↗ · Cyclists must be careful at junctions.↗ · Leave the motorway at junction 5.↗ · The two rivers meet at a junction near the town.↗

juncture — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A particular moment or point in time, especially an important one in a series of events.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A place where two things join; a joint or junction.↗ Example: At this juncture, we should stop and think.↗ · The war had reached a critical juncture.↗ · At that juncture, the captain decided to turn the ship around.↗ · The bone broke at the juncture with the knee.↗ · It is too early, at this juncture, to say who will win.↗ · The story reaches a key juncture when the map is stolen.↗ · The two roads meet at a busy juncture.↗

june — Everyday, meaning 1: June is the sixth month of the year, between May and July.↗ June has 30 days.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: June is also a girl's name.↗ Example: She reads 2 books every week in June.↗ · June has 30 days.↗ · He saved 5 dollars a day in June.↗ · How many days from the start of June to the end?↗ · Our summer holidays start at the end of June.↗ · In June it is winter in New Zealand.↗ · June comes after May and before July.↗ · Aunt June sent me a birthday card.↗ · On a fine morning in June he went out alone to walk in the green woods.↗

jungle — Everyday, meaning 1: A thick, warm, wet forest in a hot country, full of trees, plants and animals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A place that is wild, messy or hard to get through (the garden is a jungle).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A place where people compete hard and roughly (it's a jungle out there).↗ Example: Monkeys swing through the trees of the jungle.↗ · Tigers live in the jungles of India.↗ · Our back garden is a jungle after the summer.↗ · We played on the jungle gym at break (US).↗ · The city is a concrete jungle.↗ · The explorers got lost in the jungle.↗ · It rains almost every day in the jungle.↗ · I had never seen the jungle.↗