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Etymology

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From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

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Noun

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jacket (plural jackets)

  1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
  2. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
  3. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
  4. (slang) A police record.
  5. (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
  6. The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
    Cook the potatoes in their jackets.
  7. (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
  8. (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).

Synonyms

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  • (piece of a person's suit): coat (US)
  • (removable protective cover): sleeve

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Descendants

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  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: 夾克 / 夹克 (jiākè), 茄克 (jiākè)
  • Irish: seaicéad
  • Japanese: ジャケット (jaketto)
  • Korean: 재킷 (jaekit)
  • Scottish Gaelic: seacaid
  • Turkish: ceket
  • Welsh: siaced

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Verb

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jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing or jacketting, simple past and past participle jacketed or jacketted)

  1. To confine (someone) to a straitjacket. [from 18th c.]
    Synonym: straitjacket
    • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume VII, Fragment:
      ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed []!’
  2. (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering. [from 19th c.]
    • 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads[1]:
      ...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.
    • 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:
      By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired.
    • 1989, Bernard Zinszner, “Is acoustic wave attenuation a useful parameter for well logging reservoir analysis?—Learning from laboratory experiment”, in G. Imarisio, M. Frias, J.M. Bemtgen, editors, Hydrocarbons: Source of Energy [], London; Norwell, Mass.: Graham & Trotman for the Commission of the European Communities, →ISBN, session I [], page 87:
      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.
    • 1999, Maxine R. Kleindienst, Charles S. Churcher, Mary M.A. McDonald, Henry P. Schwarcz, “Geography, Geology, Geochronology and Geoarchaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis Region: []”, in Charles S. Churcher, Anthony J. Mills, editors, Reports from the Survey of the Dakhleh Oasis, [] (Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 2; Oxbow Monograph 99), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxbow Books, →ISBN, page 7, column 2:
      Jaw has been exposed for preserving and jacketting. Note other bone fragments near jaw.

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