adj
Meaning 1
Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).
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Usage: Australia
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adj
Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).
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Usage: Australia
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name
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.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A surname.
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name
Jack Daniel's, a brand of Tennessee whiskey.
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Usage: colloquial, countable, uncountable
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name
An unincorporated community in Coffee County, Alabama, United States.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri, United States.
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name
Ellipsis of Monterey Jack, a type of cheese.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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noun
A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
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noun
A man.
A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
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Usage: capitalized
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noun
A man.
A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
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Usage: US, countable
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noun
A man.
A sailor.
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Usage: colloquial
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Synonyms: jacktar, tar
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noun
A man.
A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
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Usage: slang
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Synonyms: 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, PC Plod, pig, piggy, peeler, plod, police, police officer, policeman, policeperson, polis, po-po, raw lobster, roller, rozzer, scufter, slop, swine, statie, twelve, tyre biter, unboiled lobster, walloper, wooden-top
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noun
A man.
A manual laborer.
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Usage: archaic
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noun
A man.
A lumberjack.
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Usage: Canada, US, colloquial
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noun
A man.
A sepoy.
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Usage: India, historical, slang
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
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.
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
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Topics: arts, crafts, glassblowing, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
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Usage: archaic
Topics: business, mining
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck-box.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Antonyms: plug
noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
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Usage: historical, regional
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
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Topics: card-games, games
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Synonyms: knave
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: court card, face card, playing card, card
noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A counter used to represent money in a gambling establishment.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
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Qualifier: bowls
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Synonyms: kitty
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
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Usage: UK, archaic, historical, regional
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
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Usage: obsolete, slang
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A jackcrosstree.
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Usage: archaic, historical
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
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Topics: games
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
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Usage: US
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
Money, cash.
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Usage: US, slang
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.
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Usage: Canada, US
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
Nothing, not anything, jack shit.
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Usage: euphemistic, slang
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
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Usage: slang
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A non-tool object or thing.
A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
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Usage: slang
Qualifier: Appalachians
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noun
A plant or animal.
A pike, especially when young.
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noun
A plant or animal.
A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
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Usage: US
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Synonyms: jackass, jack donkey
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noun
A plant or animal.
Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
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Synonyms: jack mackerel
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noun
A plant or animal.
A jackrabbit.
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Usage: US
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noun
A plant or animal.
A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
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noun
A plant or animal.
Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
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noun
A plant or animal.
Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
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Usage: colloquial
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noun
A plant or animal.
Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
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Usage: colloquial
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noun
A plant or animal.
Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
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Qualifier: apparently does not occur standalone for the genus per se
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noun
The jackfruit.
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noun
A plant of the species Mangifera caesia.
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noun
A home run.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man.
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Usage: informal
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noun
Ellipsis of Jack Tar, a sailor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, ellipsis, informal
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noun
Ellipsis of Jack Rum, a soldier.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, ellipsis, informal
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noun
A jacqueminot rose.
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verb
To physically raise using a jack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: jack up
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verb
To raise or increase.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
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.
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verb
To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
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Usage: colloquial, transitive
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verb
To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To jack off, to masturbate.
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Usage: colloquial, vulgar
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verb
To fight.
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Qualifier: Memphis African-American slang
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verb
To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
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Usage: informal, intransitive, transitive
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verb
To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
male donkey
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: jackass
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ass
noun
any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: carangid fish, carangid
Narrower terms: crevalle jack, jack crevalle, Caranx hippos, yellow jack, Caranx bartholomaei, runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos, rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata, leatherjacket, leatherjack, threadfish, thread-fish, Alectis ciliaris, amberjack, amberfish, yellowtail, Seriola dorsalis, rudderfish, banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata, kingfish, Seriola grandis
noun
tool for exerting pressure or lifting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tool
Narrower terms: bumper jack, jackscrew, screw jack
noun
one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: knave
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: face card, picture card, court card
noun
small flag indicating a ship's nationality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: flag
noun
game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: jackstones
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: game equipment
noun
an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: electrical device
Narrower terms: telephone jack, phone jack
noun
a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ball
noun
immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: jackfruit, jak
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: edible fruit
noun
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: laborer, manual laborer, labourer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: workman, workingman, working man, working person
Narrower terms: agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner, day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave, gandy dancer, gravedigger, hewer, hired hand, hand, hired man, hod carrier, hodman, itinerant, gypsy, gipsy, lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller, miner, mineworker, muleteer, mule skinner, mule driver, skinner, platelayer, tracklayer, porter, rail-splitter, splitter, sawyer, section hand, sprayer, stacker, steeplejack, stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper, stoker, fireman, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman
noun
a man who serves as a sailor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sailor, crewman
Narrower terms: able seaman, able-bodied seaman, boatswain, bos'n, bo's'n, bosun, bo'sun, deckhand, roustabout, helmsman, steersman, steerer, lighterman, bargeman, bargee, officer, ship's officer, pilot, sea lawyer, whaler
noun
a small worthless amount
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
verb
hunt with a jacklight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: jacklight
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hunt, run, hunt down, track down
verb
lift with a special device
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: jack up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
History
Transferred use of the personal name Jack. (cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10.
From Middle English Jackin, Jankyn, a popular pet form of John; rarely also an anglicized form of French Jacques (equivalent of Jacob and James). It can be also used as nickname for Jacob. Though the name was originally a pet form, it has become more of an independent name. Equivalent to John + -kin, Jake or Jacques. See also Middle French Hennequin, Jannequin and Middle Dutch Janneken.
Inherited from Middle English jakke, from Anglo-Norman jacke, Middle French jaque, jacque, from jacques (“peasant”), from the proper name Jacques. Compare jacquerie.
From Portuguese jaca (“jackfruit”), from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka).
Named after William Jack, the Scottish botanist who described the species.
Across languages
476 source translations are retained for this English entry.