jacket

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jacket

I wear a warm jacket on a cold autumn day.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A short coat: A garment for the upper body, typically extending to the waist or hips, often having sleeves and a front opening.
    • An outer covering or casing: A protective or insulating outer layer for an object, such as a book, a bullet, a wire, or a potato.
    • A dental crown: (Dentistry) An artificial cover for a damaged tooth.

  2. Verb:

    • To put a jacket on someone or something: To cover or provide with a jacket.
Examples

  • Noun:

    • She wore a leather jacket to the party.
    • The book's jacket had an attractive design.
    • The electrician stripped the plastic jacket from the cable.
    • He ate potatoes boiled in their jackets.

  • Verb:

    • The men were jacketed in heavy wool.
    • The hot water pipes must be jacketed to prevent heat loss.
Advanced Usage
  • "To dust/dress down/trim/warm someone's jacket": (Idiomatic, informal) To scold or beat someone severely.
    • His father threatened to dust his jacket if he came home late again.
Variants and Related Words
  • Life jacket (n): A buoyant vest or jacket to keep a person afloat in water.
  • Dinner jacket (n): A man's formal black jacket for evening wear; a tuxedo jacket.
  • Jacketed (adj): Covered with or as if with a jacket.
    • A jacketed bullet.
Synonyms
  • Coat: A garment for the upper body.
  • Covering: Something that covers or encloses.
  • Casing: A protective outer cover.
  • Wrapper: An outer covering.
Related Phrasal Verbs

(The word "jacket" is not commonly used to form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms
  • To have one's jacket on a shoogly peg: (Scottish, informal) To be in an unstable or precarious position in one's job.
    • After the mistake, he felt his jacket was on a shoogly peg.
jacket

I wear a warm jacket on a cold autumn day.

Noun
  1. the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
  2. the outer skin of a potato
  3. (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
    • tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown
  4. an outer wrapping or casing
    • phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets
  5. a short coat
Verb
  1. put a jacket on
    • The men were jacketed
  2. provide with a thermally non-conducting cover
    • The tubing needs to be jacketed

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