jacket
Syllables: jack·etUK/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt//ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
jacket noun: a piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
Noun
jacket (plural jackets)
- A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US).
- An outer garment (usually white) intended for chefs and which may be taken to signify status.
- A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
- A letter jacket.
- He's hoping to earn his jacket this year.
- A lifejacket.
- A file jacket.
- Synonyms:
- sleeve
- In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
- Synonyms:
- sleeve
- The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
- Cook the potatoes in their jackets.
- Breakfast was composed of a meal which reminded me of a linseed poultice; for dinner there were potatoes boiled in their jackets with beef saltier than the ocean itself.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 38
- Synonyms:
- sleeve
- A police record.
- We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. And you know with my jacket I can't go back to jail.1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:27:05 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures
- Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years.1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:43:50 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures
- A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
Verb
jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing or (rare) jacketting, simple past and past participle jacketed or (rare) jacketted)
- To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
- ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed[…]!’1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume VII, Fragment
- Synonyms:
- straitjacket
- To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
- ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads
- By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired.1918, Wilfred E[mil] Guttentag, “Examination and Testing”, in Petrol and Petroleum Spirits: A Description of Their Sources, Preparation, Examination and Uses, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, page 63
jacket meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
jacket in Hindi
- protective or insulating cover
- आवरण āvraṇ
- piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse
- जैकेट jaikeṭ
jacket in Tamil
- கக்சுடை
jacket in Marathi
- जाकीट
jacket in Urdu
- piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse
- جَیکِٹ jaikiṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- jacket in Bengali
- জ্যাকেট jêkeṭ
- jacket in Telugu
- కుప్పసము kuppasamu, చట్ట caṭṭa
- jacket in Malayalam
- ജാക്കറ്റ് jākkaṟṟŭ, ചട്ട caṭṭa
- jacket in Kannada
- ನಡುವಂಗಿ, ಆಲೂಗಡ್ಡೆಯ ಸಿಪ್ಪೆ, ಹಂಡೆ ಕವಚ, ಹಂಡೆ ಹೊದಿಕೆ
- jacket in Punjabi
- ਜੈਕਟ
- jacket in Gujarati
- જાકીટ jākīṭ
- jacket in Odia
- ଜ୍ଯ଼ାକେଟ୍
- jacket in Sanskrit
- चोलक colaka
- jacket in Pashto
- جاکټ jākáṭ
- jacket in Tagalog
- pabalat
- jacket in Arabic
- جَاكِيت jakēt, جَاكِت jākit, سُتْرَة sutra
- jacket in Malay
- jaket
- jacket in Indonesian
- jaket, jas
- jacket in Thai
- เสื้อแจ็กเก็ต sʉ̂ʉa-jɛ̀k-gèt, เสื้อนอก sʉ̂ʉa-nɔ̂ɔk
- jacket in Vietnamese
- áo vét tông, áo khoác, áo tây, áo vét
- jacket in Myanmar
- အပေါ်အင်္ကျီ a.pauangkyi
Examples of jacket in a sentence
- By jacketting the rod and putting the whole resonant-bar device in a pressure vessel, the intrinsic attenuation can be measured under helium confining pressure.1989, Bernard Zinszner, “Is acoustic wave attenuation a useful parameter for well logging reservoir analysis?—Learning from laboratory...
- Jaw has been exposed for preserving and jacketting.1999, Maxine R. Kleindienst, Charles S. Churcher, Mary M.A. McDonald, Henry P. Schwarcz, “Geography, Geology, Geochronology and...
Synonyms of jacket
Forms of jacket
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | jackets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | jackets |
| present participle | jacketing |
| past participle | jacketed |
| past | jacketed |
| present participle (rare) | jacketting |
| past participle (rare) | jacketted |
| past (rare) | jacketted |
Origin of jacket
From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.
Words formed from jacket
- air jacket
- bad-jacket
- Baja jacket
- battle jacket
- bed-jacket
- bedjacket
- between-seasons jacket
- biker jacket
- biking jacket
- bluejacket
- body jacket
- bomber jacket
- bookjacket
- bumfreezer jacket
- bush jacket
- chore jacket
- cork jacket
- dinner jacket
- donkey jacket
- down jacket
- dressing jacket
- dust jacket
- dust someone's jacket
- ear jacket
- Eisenhower jacket
- Eton jacket
- field jacket
- flak jacket
- flight jacket
- full metal jacket
- half-jacket
- hose jacket
- hunting jacket
- Ike jacket
- jacketless
- jacket plum
- jacket potato
- jacketwise
- jackety
- jean jacket
- jeans jacket
- kangaroo jacket
- kilt jacket
- lagging jacket
- leatherjacket
- leathery jacket
- letter jacket
- letterman jacket
- life jacket
- lumber jacket
- lumberjacket
- Mao jacket
- matinee jacket
- matinée jacket
- mess jacket
- metal jacket
- monkey jacket
- Nehru jacket
- Norfolk jacket
- pea jacket
Phrases with jacket
- jacket up
- bed jacket
- file jacket
- suit jacket
- jacket plums
- pilot jacket
- polka jacket
- shell jacket
- sport jacket
- steam jacket
- teddy jacket
- water jacket
20 more phrasesFewer phrases
- puffer jacket
- reefer jacket
- safari jacket
- sports jacket
- strait jacket
- warmup jacket
- yellow jacket
- zouave jacket
- smoking jacket
- varsity jacket
- warm-up jacket
- jacket potatoes
- straight jacket
- teddy bear jacket
- transitional jacket
- potato in its jacket
- Prince Charlie jacket
- dusts someone's jacket
- dusted someone's jacket
- dusting someone's jacket
Words that rhyme with jacket
Questions about jacket
- What does jacket mean?
- Jacket means a piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- What is jacket in Hindi?
- Jacket in Hindi is आवरण (āvraṇ), जैकेट (jaikeṭ). See Jacket meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use jacket in a sentence?
- By jacketting the rod and putting the whole resonant-bar device in a pressure vessel, the intrinsic attenuation can be measured under helium confining pressure.
- What part of speech is jacket?
- Jacket can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce jacket?
- Jacket is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of jacket?
- The plural of jacket is jackets.
Words near jacket in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: jacket (page history and authors); jacket (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jacket (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); కుప్పసము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ചട്ട (Malayalam) (page history and authors); jacket (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jacket (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); જાકીટ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); jacket (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); चोलक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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