Meaning

46 senses

  1. A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.

    jack of plate

    jack of mail

  2. A man.

    (capitalized)A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.

  3. (US, countable)A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.

  4. (colloquial)A sailor.

    a man who serves as a sailor

  5. (slang)A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.

  6. (Canada, US, colloquial)A lumberjack.

  7. (India, historical, slang)A sepoy.

  8. A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.

    A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.

  9. 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.

  10. A tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).

  11. A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.

  12. 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.

    She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.

    Wagenheber

    домкра́тdomkrát

    домкра́тdomkrát

Examples

342 sentences

  1. He is a jack-of-all-trades.

    Він майстер на всі руки. — deniko

    ruОн мастер на все руки. — Helginka

    deEr ist ein Tausendsassa. — Dalyup

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  2. Tom is a jack of all trades.

    Том — майстер на всі руки. — deniko

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  3. Where do you keep your jack?

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  4. I've got the jack of hearts.

    ruУ меня валет червей. — Wezel

    deIch habe den Herzbuben. — Esperantostern

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  5. You'll have to jack up the car.

    ruВам придётся поднять машину домкратом. — sharptoothed

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
device for raising and supporting a heavy object:
nautical: small flag at bow of ship:
Русский
By meaning 5
surface mounted connector:
device for raising and supporting a heavy object:
female ended electrical connector:
nautical: small flag at bow of ship:
male ass (the animal):
Deutsch
By meaning 5
surface mounted connector:
device for raising and supporting a heavy object:
female ended electrical connector:
target ball in bowls:
nautical: small flag at bow of ship:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English jakke, from Anglo-Norman jacke, Middle French jaque, jacque,

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

Transferred use of the personal name Jack.

From Portuguese jaca (“jackfruit”), from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka).

Named after Scottish botanist William Jack, who described the species.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: jacks
Singularjack
Pluraljacks

regular

Synonyms

94 synonyms
alphabetB1bullB1copA1copperB2fingerB1policeA2police officerA2policemanA2twelveA1jacktartarjakebarneybeatsman
Close in meaning
  • male donkey:jackass
  • one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince:knave
  • 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:jackstones
  • a small worthless amount:doodly-squatdiddly-squatdiddlysquatdiddlyshitdiddlydiddleysquat
  • immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted:jackfruitjak
  • someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor:laborermanual laborerlabourer

Antonyms

1 antonyms
plugB1

Word family

124 related words
Derivedamberjackblackjackblack jackblue jackbootjackboot jackbottle jackbumper jackcable jackcalving jackcargo jackcar jackclock jackcrackerjackcracker jackcrevalle jackcross-jack yardculture-jackdouble jackflapjackfry jackice-jackjackablejack-a-dandy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
jabjabberjackaljackass

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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