jack meaning
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[dʒæk] [-æk] 
US WJack
- Jack may refer to:
EN Jack 
- NounPLjacks
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack, hydraulic jack, ratchet jack, scaffold jack.
- She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.
- A man or men in general.
- Every man jack.
- A male animal.
- A male ass.
- (card games) The card ranking between the ten and queen of any suit, picturing a knave or prince on its face. In some card games has a value of eleven based on its rank, but in many card games has a value of ten like the ten, queen, and king cards. Also called a knave.
- (archaic) A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man).
- Fly may signify a winged insect, or part of a Jack. Jack itself is sometimes a roaster of meat, and at others a contraction of John, a knave, a Japan mug, or an instrument to draw off boots.
- Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
- A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment.
- telephone jack
- (sports) A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball.
- (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
- You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!
- (nautical) A small flag at the bow of a ship.
- (nautical) A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially) British sailing warships; Union Jack.
- (military) A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather.
- The aketon, gambeson, vambasium, and jack were military vestments, calculated for the defence of the body, differing little from each other, except in their names, their materials and construction were nearly the same, the authorities quoted in the notes, shew they were all composed of many folds of linen, stuffed with cotton, wool or hair, quilted, and commonly covered with leather, made of buck or doe skin.
- A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating.
- (slang) Money.
- (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
- A common name for the freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel.
- A large California rockfish.
- Any marine fish or the species of the Carangidae family.
- (obsolete, nautical) A sailor, a jacktar.
- (obsolete) A pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A drinking measure holding half a pint or, sometimes, a quarter of a pint.
- A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine.
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- Female ended electrical connector (see Electrical connector).
- Electrical connector in a fixed position (see Gender of connectors and fasteners).
- A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
- A jackfruit tree.
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack, hydraulic jack, ratchet jack, scaffold jack.
- VerbSGjacksPRjackingPT, PPjacked
- (transitive) To use a jack.
- He jacked the car up so that he could replace the brake pads.
- (transitive) To raise or increase.
- If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
- To produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice (which is water), leaving the alcohol (which remains liquid).
- (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Shortened form of carjacking.
- Someone jacked my car last night!
- (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
- (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
- (transitive) To use a jack.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- When the hurricane hit and I lost power, I fired up the generator and jacked it in to the outlet in my garage with a suicide cable; at least I was able to run a few lights and my refrigerator.
- The oil rig can be jacked up higher when the hydraulic legs touch the sea floor.
- When Jack came back late from lunch, the team leader really lowered the boom on him.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Jack Kevorkian, euthanasia activist, famously said "dying is not a crime".
- Jack is sick today and doesn't really seem with it.
- Jack won the last match of blackjack; Theo overplayed.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- I arrived at the suite half an hour ahead of Jack.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of jack in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
- en jacket
- en jackal
- en jackass
- en jacks
- en jack-knife
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "jack" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.