jane

Определение jane в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: A woman, often specifically a girlfriend
What happened to your regular Jane?.; A female given name; the standard feminine form of John since the 17th century
An excellent plan, said the aunt of Clovis coldly; unfortunately I have got used to being called Jane myself. It happens to be my name..; A patronymic surname derived from a Middle English variant of John; Alternative capitalization of Jane, "woman"; A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century
Certes was but a common Courtisane, / Yet flat refusd to haue a do with mee, / Because I could not giue her many a Iane.; Alternative spelling of jean
Ye miscellaneous, ignoble manufacturing individuals, ye have produced too much! We accuse you of making above two-hundred thousand shirts for the bare backs of mankind. Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch-plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold?.; the main female character in the books and films about Tarzan. Addams Jane Austen Jane Bethune Mary Jane McLeod Mary Jane McLeod Calamity Jane Martha Jane Cannary Campion Jane Delano Jane Arminda Fonda Jane Seymour Goodall Jane Grey Lady Jane Jacobs Jane Jane Butzner Jane Seymour Deborah Jane Kerr Trimmer Jane Alice Peters Monk Meredith Jane; the standard feminine form of John since the 17th century; {i} female first name; A kind of twilled cotton cloth; A coin of Genoa; any small coin
Jane Crow: Segregation of the genders
Jane Crow: Discrimination against females
Jane Crow: Misogyny
Jane Doe: Female equivalent of John Doe
Jane Does: plural form of Jane Doe
Jane Sixpack: An ordinary woman
Jane A Delano: born March 12, 1862, Montour Falls, N.Y., U.S. died April 15, 1919, Savenay, Fr. U.S. nurse and educator. She became superintendant of nurses in Jacksonville, Fla., where she used mosquito netting to prevent the spread of yellow fever even before the mosquito was known to carry it. In Bisbee, Ariz., she established a hospital for miners with scarlet fever. She oversaw the enlistment of over 20,000 U.S. nurses for overseas duty during World War I
Jane Addams: born Sept. 6, 1860, Cedarville, Ill., U.S. died May 21, 1935, Chicago, Ill. U.S. social reformer. Addams graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in Illinois in 1881 and was granted a degree the following year when the institution became Rockford College. During a trip to Europe in 1887-88 she visited the Toynbee Hall settlement house in London, which sparked her interest in social reform. Determined to create something like Toynbee Hall in the U.S., in 1889 she cofounded Hull House in Chicago, one of the first settlement houses in North America to provide practical services and educational opportunities for the poor. She subsequently championed social reforms such as juvenile-court law, justice for immigrants and African Americans, worker's rights and compensation, and women's suffrage. In 1910 she became the first female president of the National Conference of Social Work. An ardent pacifist, she served in 1915 as chair of the International Congress of Women and helped form the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1931 she shared the Nobel Prize for Peace with Nicholas M. Butler
Jane Arminda Delano: born March 12, 1862, Montour Falls, N.Y., U.S. died April 15, 1919, Savenay, Fr. U.S. nurse and educator. She became superintendant of nurses in Jacksonville, Fla., where she used mosquito netting to prevent the spread of yellow fever even before the mosquito was known to carry it. In Bisbee, Ariz., she established a hospital for miners with scarlet fever. She oversaw the enlistment of over 20,000 U.S. nurses for overseas duty during World War I
Jane Austen: (1775-1817) English novelist, author of "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen: a British writer who wrote in a clever and amusing way about the way of life of English middle class people of her time. Her novels, which are among the most important works of English literature, include Pride and Prejudice , Sense and Sensibility, and Emma (1775-1817). born Dec. 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, Eng. died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire English novelist. The daughter of a rector, she lived in the circumscribed world of minor landed gentry and country clergy that she was to use in her writing; her closest companion was her sister, Cassandra. Her earliest known writings are mainly parodies, notably of sentimental fiction. In her six full-length novels Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), Persuasion (1817), and Northanger Abbey (published 1817 but written before the others) she created the comedy of manners of middle-class English life in her time. Her writing is noted for its wit, realism, shrewd sympathy, and brilliant prose style. Through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life, she was the first to give the novel its distinctly modern character. She published her novels anonymously; two appeared only after her death, which probably resulted from Addison disease
Jane Campion: born April 30, 1954, Wellington, N.Z. New Zealand film director. After training as a painter in Australia, she studied filmmaking and made several notable short films. Her first feature, Sweetie (1989), was followed by the successful An Angel at My Table (1990). She wrote and directed the internationally acclaimed The Piano (1993) and directed The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Holy Smoke (1999)
Jane Doe: used especially by the police to refer to a woman whose name is not known John Doe
Jane Eyre: {i} novel written by Charlotte Bronte and published in 1847 about Jane Eyre who is madly in love with the contemplative Mr. Rochester
Jane Eyre: a book by Charlotte Brontë about a young woman called Jane Eyre who becomes a governess and agrees to marry her employer, Mr Rochester, not knowing that he already has a wife who is mentally ill and kept locked in the attic (=a room under the roof) of the house (1847)
Jane Fonda: {i} (born 1937) Academy Award-winning U.S. film actress, daughter of Henry Fonda
Jane Fonda: born Dec. 21, 1937, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. film actress, political activist, and fitness enthusiast. The daughter of actor Henry Fonda, she made her film debut in Tall Story (1960), which began a career that took dizzying turns. After playing comic roles in such films as Cat Ballou (1965) and Barefoot in the Park (1967), she appeared as a sex kitten in husband Roger Vadim's (married 1965-73) futuristic Barbarella (1968). She then plunged into leftist political activity, marrying the activist Tom Hayden (married 1973-89) and loudly condemning the Vietnam War, and made socially conscious films including They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Klute (1971, Academy Award), and Coming Home (1978, Academy Award). She later marketed a series of hugely popular exercise books and videotapes. After marrying Ted Turner in 1991 (divorced 2001), she retired from the screen
Jane Goodall: born April 3, 1934, London, Eng. British ethologist. Soon after finishing high school, she fulfilled her childhood ambition of traveling to Africa, where she assisted Louis Leakey (see Leakey family), who suggested she study chimpanzees. She received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University for her work and remained at the research centre she founded in Gombe, Tanz., until 1975. In 1977 she cofounded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation in the U.S. Her observations established, among other things, that chimpanzees are omnivorous rather than vegetarian, can make and use tools, and have complex and highly developed social behaviours. Noteworthy among her writings are In the Shadow of Man (1971) and The Chimpanzees of Gombe (1986). She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2003
Jane Jacobs: orig. Jane Butzner born May 4, 1916, Scranton, Pa., U.S. U.S.-born Canadian urbanologist. She became active in urban community work while living in New York City with her architect husband. For 10 years she was an editor at Architectural Forum. Her highly influential The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) is a brash, passionate, and highly original reinterpretation of the multiple needs of modern urban places. The Economy of Cities (1969) discussed the importance of diversity to a city's prospects. Later works include Cities and the Wealth of Nations (1984) and Edge of Empire (1996). See also urban planning
Jane Seymour: {i} (1509-1537) Queen of England (1536-1537) and third wife of king Henry VIII who died after giving birth to Edward VI
Jane Seymour: born 1509?, England died Oct. 24, 1537, Hampton Court, London Third wife of Henry VIII of England. A lady-in-waiting to Henry's wives Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, she first attracted Henry's attention 1535 but refused to be his mistress. This probably hastened Anne Boleyn's downfall and execution (1536), after which Jane and Henry were married privately. She restored Henry's daughter Mary (later Mary I) to his favour and gave birth to his only male heir, the future Edward VI, but she died 12 days later, to Henry's genuine sorrow
Jane Seymour: {i} (born 1951 under the name: Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg) English born U.S. movie and television actress
Jane Seymour Fonda: born Dec. 21, 1937, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. film actress, political activist, and fitness enthusiast. The daughter of actor Henry Fonda, she made her film debut in Tall Story (1960), which began a career that took dizzying turns. After playing comic roles in such films as Cat Ballou (1965) and Barefoot in the Park (1967), she appeared as a sex kitten in husband Roger Vadim's (married 1965-73) futuristic Barbarella (1968). She then plunged into leftist political activity, marrying the activist Tom Hayden (married 1973-89) and loudly condemning the Vietnam War, and made socially conscious films including They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Klute (1971, Academy Award), and Coming Home (1978, Academy Award). She later marketed a series of hugely popular exercise books and videotapes. After marrying Ted Turner in 1991 (divorced 2001), she retired from the screen
jane doe: an unknown or fictitious woman who is a party to legal proceedings
Mary Jane: a double given name
Mary Jane: A type of shoe for a girl, having a rounded toe and a strap with a buckle
Mary Jane: marijuana
Salvation Jane: The plant echium plantagineum
plain Jane: A young woman of unremarkable appearance
Calamity Jane: orig. Martha Jane Cannary born May 1, 1852?, near Princeton, Mo.?, U.S. died Aug. 1, 1903, Terry, near Deadwood, S.D. U.S. frontierswoman. She grew up in Montana and worked in mining camps, where she acquired riding and shooting skills. In 1876 she settled in Deadwood, S.D., site of new gold strikes; her pursuits there included hauling goods and machinery to the outlying camps and working as a cook and a dance-hall girl. There she probably first met Wild Bill Hickok, who would become her companion. In 1891 she married Charley Burke, and from 1895 she toured with Wild West shows in the Midwest. Facts about her life were embellished by contemporary feature-magazine writers
Lady Jane Grey: a woman who was queen of England for 9 days in 1553, before she was put in prison by Mary I, and later killed (1537-54). born October 1537, Bradgate, Leicestershire, Eng. died Feb. 12, 1554, London Titular queen of England for nine days in 1553. The great-granddaughter of Henry VII, she was married in May 1553 to the son of the duke of Northumberland. Northumberland persuaded the dying Edward VI to set aside his half sisters as successors in favour of the Protestant Lady Jane. She was proclaimed queen on July 10, despite popular support for Edward's half sister Mary Tudor (see Mary I). Mary was proclaimed queen on July 19 after Lady Jane gladly relinquished the crown. Committed to the Tower of London, Lady Jane and her husband were sentenced to death in 1554. The sentence was initially suspended, but her father's participation in Wyat's rebellion sealed her fate, and she was beheaded
Mary Jane: female first name; marijuana, dried flowers and leaves of the cannabis plant that are smoked for their intoxicating effect (Slang)
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune: orig. Mary Jane McLeod born July 10, 1875, Mayesville, S.C., U.S. died May 18, 1955, Daytona Beach, Fla. U.S. educator. Born to former slaves, she made her way through college and in 1904 founded a school that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla. She was president of the college in 1923-42 and 1946-47, also serving as a special adviser to Pres. Franklin Roosevelt. Prominent in African-American organizations, particularly women's groups, she directed the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration (1936-44)
Meredith Jane Monk: born Nov. 20, 1942, Lima, Peru Peruvian-born U.S. composer and performance artist. She was raised in Connecticut and New York and attended Sarah Lawrence College. She soon formed her first group, The House (1968), to explore extended vocal techniques (many learned from study of other cultures) in combination with dance, film, theatre, and other elements, in genre-defying works such as Juice (1969). One of the original creators of performance art, she has remained unique and unclassifiable
Miss Jane Marple: a character in crime novels by Agatha Christie. Miss Marple is a very nice polite old English lady who is also clever at discovering criminals, especially murderers
calamity jane: United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)
mary jane: street names for marijuana

jane

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/ˈʤān/ /ˈʤeɪn/

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[ 'jAn-'dO ] (noun.) 1936. From Old French Jannes (“Genoway”).

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... see this baby girl, they don't know what else to call her, so they call her Jane. And ...

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