dow jones | (n) an indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Syn. Dow-Jones Industrial Average |
jones | (n) United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930), Syn. Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones |
jones | (n) United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900), Syn. John Luther Jones, Casey Jones |
jones | (n) United States golfer (1902-1971), Syn. Bobby Jones, Robert Tyre Jones |
jones | (n) American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792), Syn. John Paul Jones |
jones | (n) one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652), Syn. Inigo Jones |
jones | (n) English phonetician (1881-1967), Syn. Daniel Jones |
jonesboro | (n) a town in northeast Arkansas |
jones' penstemon | (n) low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah, Syn. Penstemon dolius |
baraka | (n) United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934), Syn. LeRoi Jones, Imamu Amiri Baraka |
ocean floor | (n) the bottom of a sea or ocean, Syn. ocean bottom, sea bottom, sea floor, Davy Jones, seabed, Davy Jones's locker |
wharton | (n) United States novelist (1862-1937), Syn. Edith Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones Wharton |
Davy Jones | The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by sailors. [ 1913 Webster ] This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is seen in various shapes warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ] Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of the ocean. -- Gone to Davy Jones's Locker, dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard. [ 1913 Webster ]
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Dow-Jones Index | n. (Finance) an index of certain stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange, computed by the Dow Jones publishing company as a weighted average of the prices of specific stocks in certain categories. Three indices are maintained, the Industrials, the Transportations, and the Utilities. When used without qualification, the term usually refers to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Syn. -- Dow, Dow Jones, Dow-Jones Average. [ PJC ] |
Dow-Jones Industrial Average | n. (Finance) an index of certain stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange, computed by the Dow Jones publishing company as a weighted average of the prices of the common stocks of 30 specific companies classified as "industrial". The Dow Jones Industrial Average is often taken as an indicator of the movement of American stock prices generally, though other indices are maintained, averaging the prices of other stocks, and these often change in opposite directions from those of the DJIA. Syn. -- DJI, DJIA, Dow, Dow Jones, Dow-Jones Average. [ PJC ] |
Jonesian | a. Of or pertaining to Jones. [ 1913 Webster ] The Jonesian system, a system of transliterating Oriental words by English letters, invented by Sir William Jones.
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