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Definition of Jacket

Jacket A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts. An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc. In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired. A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket. To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket. To thrash; to beat. Related Definitions: Also, An, And, Anything, As, Band, Beat, Boiler, Called, Charge, Coat, Cork, Covering, Cylinder, Downward, Extending, Felt, Fired, For, From, Furnish, Garment, Heat, In, Is, Jacket, Life, Lined, Material, Nonconducting, Of, On, Or, Ordnance, Outer, Pipe, Preserver, Prevent, Put, Radiation, Resembling, Serve, Short, Some, Steam, Strengthening, Such, Surrounding, The, Thrash, To, Tube, Upper, Used, Waistcoat, Which, With, Without, Wood

Jacket Quotations A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed. Jeremy Irons As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you make it in guys' sizes, and suddenly they're wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don't care. Steven Tyler There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way. Timothy West These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. Joe Henderson

Jacket Translations jacket in Dutch is jasje, colbert, buis jacket in French is jaquette, veste, veston jacket in Italian is giubba jacket in Norwegian is omslag, jakke jacket in Portuguese is revestimento, jaqueta jacket in Spanish is americana, chaqueta jacket in Swedish is jacka, jacka, rock, kavaj, kofta

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