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Thu 15 Jul, 2010 09:39 pm
Jab = ?
Context:
The 4-in-1 diet jab: New wonder drug tackles cholesterol, obesity, diabetes and blood pressure The jab, which could be available in three years, also lowers blood pressure, raises 'good' cholesterol, and can prevent and even cure diabetes. If that's not enough, it also appears to have a 'feel-good' factor. Similar in structure to a gut hormone that helps regulate appetite, liraglutide tricks the brain into thinking we are full despite eating 20 per cent less food.
@oristarA,
'jab' means to stick oneself, sb or sth with a sharp instrument in a quick motion. So in this case it may mean that this drug will be dispensed by needle which most people quickly jab into their skin in an attempt to lessen the pain.
Take a sharpened pencil and with a quick motion, stick the pencil thru some paper. Now you have justed jabbed a hole in the paper.
Do you have a Longman Language Activator, Ori? You should go to a university and see if they have one there.
Yes, a good dictionary. It's amazing what you can learn in one of those.
Try to avoid the American ones, though.
"Jab" is a colloquialism for an injection delivered by a hypodermic needle.
@McTag,
Yeah. For language, EE first, AE second. For science, A first, E second.
@oristarA,
If you insist.
But don't forget, American scientists use AmE to describe what they are doing. It's all they know.
Remember the moon-landing which failed because American launch engineers used inches in their assumptions when the vehicle had been designed in Europe to the SI System (units- millimetres)?
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