English Explanatory Dictionary

jack

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
noun
  1. A man.
  2. A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
  3. A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
  4. A sailor.
  5. A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
  6. A manual laborer.
  7. A lumberjack.
  8. A sepoy.
  9. A device or utensil.
  10. A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
  11. Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
  12. a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
verb
  1. To physically raise using a jack.
  2. To raise or increase.
  3. To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
  4. To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
  5. To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
  6. To jack off, to masturbate.
  7. To fight.
  8. To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
adj
  1. Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).
noun
  1. The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
  2. The related tree Mangifera caesia.
noun
  1. A home run.
verb
  1. To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
name
  1. A unisex given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.
  2. A surname.
  3. Jack Daniel's, a brand of Tennessee whiskey.
  4. An unincorporated community in Coffee County, Alabama, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri, United States.
  6. Ellipsis of Monterey Jack, a type of cheese.
noun
  1. A placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man.
  2. Ellipsis of Jack Tar, a sailor.
  3. Ellipsis of Jack Rum, a soldier.
  4. A jacqueminot rose.

Pronunciation

jăk /d͡ʒæk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-jack.wav en-us-jack.ogg en-au-jack.ogg

Word forms

jack jacks jacking jacked more jack most jack jak

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English jakke, from Anglo-Norman jacke, Middle French jaque, jacque, from jacques (“peasant”), from the proper name Jacques. Compare jacquerie.

Synonyms

jacktar tar jake 5-O alphabet barney beatsman bizzie bluebottle bluecoat blue heeler blue meanie bobby body snatcher bogey boy in blue bull bullyman buttons centenier charpering omi chazzer cobbler cop copper cozzer cracker crusher crowns dibble fed filth finest finger five-o flatfoot flatty fuzz garda gendarme glowie guardian of the peace harman harman-beck Inspector Knacker jack jackboot John Law John Q. Law Johnny Hopper lawman mee-maw monarch Mr Plod mutton shunter nuthook oinker Officer Friendly Old Bill one-time

Antonyms

plug

Related words

mul:J

Derived words

jack of plate African jack amberjack back to back jack ballin' the jack bicolor jack blackfin jack blackjack black jack blue jack bootjack boot jack bottle jack bumper jack cable jack calving jack cargo jack car-jack car jack cheap-jack clock jack cottonmouth jack crack-a-jack crackerjack cracker-jack cracker jack Crevalle jack cross-jack yard culture-jack culturejack double jack every man jack flapjack fry jack green jack hi-jack horse-eye jack ice-jack jackable jack-a-dandy jack-a-lantern jack-all jack all jackanapes jack-a-napes jack arch jack around jack-ass jack-back jack-ball jack bean jack block jack-booted jack booted jack-boot jack boot jackbox jack-boy jack boy jack-by-the-hedge

Translations

Western Apache: náłbiil bijaadbee dahnádidlohí Arabic: مِشْوَال Arabic: رَافِعَة Belarusian: дамкра́т Bulgarian: крик Catalan: cric Catalan: connector de clavilla Chinese Mandarin: 起重器 Chinese Mandarin: 千斤頂 /千斤顶 Chinese Mandarin: 插座 Chinese Mandarin: 插口 Czech: zvedák Czech: hever Czech: konektor Danish: donkraft Danish: stik Dutch: krik Dutch: stopkontakt Dutch: aansluitpunt Dutch: aansluiting Dutch: stekker Esperanto: kriko Esperanto: ĵako Estonian: tungraud Finnish: tunkki Finnish: nosturi Finnish: jakki French: cric French: jack French: prise jack French: connecteur Georgian: ჯალამბარი Georgian: დომკრატი Georgian: ამწევი German: Wagenheber German: Buchse Greek: γρύλος Hebrew: ג׳ק מכאני Hindi: जैक Hungarian: emelő Hungarian: emelőbak Hungarian: kocsiemelő Hungarian: aljzat Hungarian: dugalj Hungarian: dugaszolóaljzat Icelandic: tjakkur Ido: kriko Indonesian: dongkrak Italian: cric Italian: cricco Italian: martinetto Italian: martinello Italian: binda Italian: sollevatore Italian: presa elettrica Japanese: ジャッキ Japanese: ジャック Japanese: 差しこみ口 Javanese: dongkrak Korean: 잭 Latvian: domkrats Middle Low German: dumkraft Luxembourgish: Autoscric Malay: جيک Malay: jek Malay: bicu Maltese: ġakk Māori: tiaki Māori: hikiwaka Mongolian: данхраат Mongolian: хөшүүрэг Navajo: chidí bee dah ńdiitʼáhí Norman: lévyi Norwegian Bokmål: jekk Norwegian Bokmål: donkraft Norwegian Nynorsk: jekk Norwegian Nynorsk: donkraft Persian: جک Polish: lewar Portuguese: macaco Portuguese: jack Portuguese: soquete Portuguese: jaque
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