Meaning of jacket in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Verb
    1. Definitions
  3. Noun
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈdʒækət/

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  1. Verb

    jacket

    Definitions

    1. provide with a thermally non-conducting cover

    Examples

    • « The tubing needs to be jacketed »
  2. 2. put a jacket on

    Examples

    • « The men were jacketed »

  3. Noun

    jacket

    Etymology

    late Middle English: from Old French jaquet, diminutive of jaque (see jack)

    Definitions

    1. a short coat
  4. 2. an outer wrapping or casing

    Examples

    • « phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets »
  5. 3. (dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth
  6. 4. the outer skin of a potato
  7. 5. the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition

Famous quotes

  • « Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. »
    Carl Hiaasen
  • « Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film. »
    Ralph Fiennes
  • « I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man. »
    Gordon Ramsay
  • « Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. »
    James Wolcott
  • « My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality. »
    Jay London

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