jeanette

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Editorial note

Just saying: in Flanders, 'janet' or 'jeanette' is an offensive slur for a homosexual man.

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Quick take

A coarse jean fabric, used for linings.

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noun

A coarse jean fabric, used for linings.

noun

Alternative form of Jeannette. [A female given name from French.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jeanette.

noun

A coarse jean fabric, used for linings.

noun

Alternative form of Jeannette. [A female given name from French.]

Example sentences

Just saying: in Flanders, 'janet' or 'jeanette' is an offensive slur for a homosexual man.

Maurice Herlihy and Jeanette Wing introduced linearizability back in 1990 [1].

I read a short historical fantasy novella named The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson.

You might be interested to read Jeanette Ng’s acceptance speech for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Award Ceremony just two days ago.

Inception [^2]: Computational Thinking, Jeanette Wing.

Recently, Educated by Tara Westover, and in the past The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, both have taught me to approach individuals with the true ignorance of their lives that I have.

In my reply above, I evoked the memory of Jeanette Rankin, who was the lone dissenting vote against the Pacific War after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (somewhat analogous to the October 7th attack).

Now, if I could've typed in something like: podcast with host Jeanette who has a spanish last name and it actually were able to figure it out, then I think the search engine could cause a paradigm shift.

Quote examples

Jeanette Winterson recalled her mother's lament about books: "You can't tell by looking what's inside them."

This whole conversation about learning to code puts me in mind of what CMU's Jeanette Wing calls "Computational Thinking", this comment especially.

Jordan about the term "inferential thinking", as I was familiar with Jeanette Wing's work on computational thinking.

Actually "Jeanette Manfra, head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, told NBC the Russians only successfully infiltrated a few of those states.

Proper noun examples

One of the hosts' first name is Jeanette, and I know she has a Spanish last name.

Jeanette Piccard and her husband Jean, another high-altitude ballooning pioneer, are also suggested to be ancestors of one Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the USS Enterprise.

Jeanette Rankin was vilified for her lone dissenting vote against war, yet decades later she is among the few of her contemporaries to have a statue in the Capitol to honor her dedication to pacifism.