Jumbo
21Jumbo S.A. — Infobox Company company name = Jumbo S.A. company company type = foundation = location = key people = industry = Retail products = revenue = 281,310,000 Euros (2006) operating income = net income = num employees = 1599 subsid = homepage =… …
22jumbo — [[t]ʤʌ̱mboʊ[/t]] jumbos 1) ADJ: ADJ n Jumbo means very large; used mainly in advertising and in the names of products. ...a jumbo box of tissues. ...grilled jumbo prawns. Syn: giant 2) N COUNT A jumbo or a jumbo jet is a very large jet aircraft… …
23jumbo — jum·bo s.m.inv., agg.inv. CO 1. s.m.inv., jumbo jet 2. s.m.inv., jumbo tram 3. agg.inv., spec. nel linguaggio pubblicitario, di prodotto che ha dimensioni superiori al normale: tubetto jumbo 4. s.m.inv. TS miner. veicolo scorrevole su rotaie o… …
24jumbo — /jum boh/, n., pl. jumbos, adj. Informal. n. 1. a very large person, animal, or thing. 2. See jumbo jet. 3. U.S. Naut. a. a forestaysail having a boom (jumbo boom) along its foot, used esp. on schooners. b. a sail used in place of a course on a… …
25jumbo — The colloquial word for anything unusually large, such as a jumbo jet or jumbo crossword, derives from Jumbo, the large elephant exhibited by the American showman P. T. Barnum in the 1880s. Its own name is said to derive from Swahili jumbe,… …
26jumbo — jum|bo [ˈdʒʌmbəu US bou] adj [only before noun] informal [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Jumbo, name of a very large elephant put on show in London and the U.S. in the 19th century, perhaps from mumbo jumbo] larger than other things of the same type ▪… …
27jumbo — /ˈdʒʌmboʊ / (say jumboh) noun (plural jumbos) 1. Colloquial an elephant. 2. Mining a drill carriage on which several drills for horizontal drilling are placed. 3. Mining a mobile scaffold to assist drilling in large headings. 4. Mining a drilling …
28jumbo — noun (plural jumbos) Etymology: Jumbo, a huge elephant exhibited by P. T. Barnum Date: 1883 a very large specimen of its kind • jumbo adjective …
29Jumbo CD — A certificate of deposit (CD) with a minimum denomination of $100,000. Jumbo CDs have higher denominations than regular certificate of deposits, and allow investors to deposit a certain amount of money and receive interest. These investments are… …
30jumbo — n 1. British a fool, a slow, large and/or dim witted person. A mainly working class term, used for instance by the CID to refer to uniformed police officers. (Jumbo as applied to elephants derives from the African word jamba, anglicised as a name …
