jacket
//ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt//
Forms
- Plural
- jackets
- present (v1)
- jacket
- past (v2)
- jacketed
- past participle (v3)
- jacketed
- present participle
- jacketing
- 3rd person singular
- jackets
Definitions
1.A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- I want to buy this jacket.
2.A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
- I want to buy this jacket.
3.An outer garment (usually white) intended for chefs and which may be taken to signify status.
- I want to buy this jacket.
4.A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
- I want to buy this jacket.
1.To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
- ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed[…]!’
2.To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
- By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired.
- Jaw has been exposed for preserving and jacketting. Note other bone fragments near jaw.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2599
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
Etymology tree
Old French jaque
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Middle French jacquetbor.
English jacket
From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.