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$ is not a function is a common error message newbies encounter when trying to use JQuery in Drupal 7.
The explanation is that the usage of $ is disabled in Drupal to avoid conflicts with other libraries. But which other library is using $?
At least two major ones:
It is probably because using one char for most commonly used function saves a lot of time. And due to some restrictions for characters in variable name in JavaScript there are actually two candidates for such one-char names:
$and_(_is used often for eg. gettext functions or throw-away variables). Thus I would rather expect that if some framework has some shortcut function with one char name, it is probably$.