| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To cover, coat, veil, curtain or shroud.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb jacket.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (jacket) | 1. Provide with a thermally non-conducting cover; "The tubing needs to be jacketed".[Wordnet]. 2. Put a jacket on; "The men were jacketed".[Wordnet]. 3. To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.[Websters]. 4. To thrash; to beat.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: jacketing, jacketed, jackets, jacketer, jacketers, jacketingly and jacketedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun | 1. The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing.[Websters]. | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "JACKETING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references) |
Specialty Definition: jacket
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] A short close garment worn by males, extending downwards to the hips; a short coat.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Aerospace | 1. A covering or casing of some kind. 2. Specifically, a shell around the combustion chamber of a liquid-fuel rocket, through which the propellant is circulated in regenerative cooling.3. A coating of one material over another to prevent oxidation, micrometeoroid penetration, etc. (references) | ||
| Business | Synonym sheath. (references) | ||
| Electrical Engineering | 1: A uniform and continuous tubular covering of metallic or non metallic material, generally extruded; all the components of a metallic or optical cable which are placed outside the core to protect it against corrosion or mechanical damage, and to provide a shield against possible electromagnetic interference. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: The external covering of insulating material of a dry cell, closed at the bottom. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: The protective outer covering of a bundle of fibers. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Energy | The enclosure on a water heater, furnace, or boiler. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: Jacket The French jaquette, "little jack," a translation of the German Hanseline, a slop cut short. 2: Jacket. The skin of a potato. Potatoes brought to table unpeeled are said to be "with their jackets on." 3: To dust one's jacket. (See Dust.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mechanical Engineering | A felt cover for a couch roll in a papermaking machine. . . a cloth covering for a machine roller usually woven or felted in tubular form. . . Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Metallurgy | The metal casing of the furnace enclosing the refractory brickwork. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Mining | An outer casing or cover constructed around a cylinder or pipe, the annular space being filled with a fluid for either cooling, heating, or maintaining the cylinder contents at constant temperature; e.g., the water jackets of an internal combustion engine. (references) | ||
| Nuclear Energy & Physics | The external layer of material applied directly to a nuclear fuel or other material, to provide protection from a chemically reactive environment, to provide containment of radioactive products produced during the irradiation of the composite or to provide structural support. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Publishing & Graphic Arts | A transparent plastic carrier with a single or multiple sleeve or pocket made to fold microfilm in flat strips. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Technology | See: dust jacket and sleeve. (references) | ||
| Transportation | A wood or fiber cover placed around such containers as cans and bottles. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | A jacket is a lightweight, thigh- or waist-length coat that may be worn by adults or children. Some jackets are fashionable, while others serve as protective clothing. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A piece of a man suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat ; coat (US). (references) | 2: [Noun] A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length. (references) | 3: [Noun] A police record. (references) | 4: [Noun] A removable or replaceable protective or insulating cover for an object (eg a book, hot water tank.). (references) | 5: [Verb] (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering. 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length. (references) |
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Common Expressions: jacket
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Air jacket | 1: A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: An inflatable life jacket. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Bed jacket | A lightweight jacket worn over bedclothes (as when sitting in bed). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Berkeley High Jacket | The Jacket is the student newspaper serving the roughly three thousand students of Berkeley High School, California. The paper is published every other Friday and is usually sixteen pages long. There are five sections in the paper: news, opinion, features, entertainment, and sports. The staff of The Jacket includes over fifty student editors, reporters, photographers, and business staff members as well as one faculty advisor. The name is taken from the mascot of Berkeley High School, the Yellowjacket. (references) | ||
| Blue jacket | (Naut.) See under Blue . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Bomber jacket | A jacket gathered into a band at the waist. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Book jacket | A paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bush jacket | A loose fitting jacket; resembles a shirt with four patch pockets and a belt. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Cardigan jacket | A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Cork jacket | Life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Dinner jacket | Semiformal evening dress for men. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: jacket
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Book jacket | Art | See: dust jacket. (references) | |
| Bosh jacket | Mining | A water jacket used for cooling the walls of a shaft furnace. (references) | |
| Cable Jacket | Business | See sheath. (references) | |
| Dress your Jacket | Literature | (or hide). I'll dress your jacket for you. I'll give you a beating. I'll give you a dressing, or a good dressing. To dress a horse is to curry it, rub it, and comb it. To dress ore is to break it up, crush it, and powder it in the stamping mill. The original idea of dressing is preserved, but the method employed in dressing horses, ore, etc., is the prevailing idea in the phrases referred to. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Dust jacket | Art | The removable paper wrapper on the outside of a hardcover book, usually printed in color and given a glossy finish to market the work to retail customers and protect it from wear and tear. The front of the dust jacket bears the title, the author's full name, and a graphic design. The title also appears on the spine of the jacket, with the author's last name and the publisher's name or symbol. In most trade titles, a promotional blurb written by the publisher appears on the inside flap. The back flap usually provides brief biographical information about the author, which may include a small portrait photograph. The ISBN is printed on the back of the dust jacket, usually in the lower right-hand corner, following brief quotes from positive reviews of the work. Textbooks, reference books, and sci-tech books are usually published without a dust jacket. The first protective paper jacket was provided by a publisher in England in 1833. Since then, dust jacket design has become a highly skilled form of graphic art and a significant factor in the cost of book production. In illustrated children's books, the design used on the dust jacket is usually done by the illustrator. Abbreviated dj. Synonymous with book jacket and dust cover. Compare with wrapper. See also: sleeve. (references) | |
| Jacket cover | Art | A removable covering made of thin, transparent, flexible plastic, designed to fit over the dust jacket of a book published in hardcover, to extend the life of the binding and enhance the visual appeal of the jacket design, available from library suppliers in a range of sizes. Used more extensively in public and school libraries than in academic and special libraries, it allows the outside surface of a book to be easily cleaned with a damp rag or paper towel and disinfectant cleaning solution. The ends should be securely fastened to the cover with adhesive tape of a type that can be removed without damage. (references) | |
| Jacket number | Banking | A five or six numerical digit code assigned by GPO to all jobs submitted for printing or procurement by different Government agencies. This number ordinarily is found on the last pages of the publication. For example: 461-539, 91-532. (references) | |
| Jacket or Sleeve | Slang | Adjective. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: The small cardboard ring to put around your coffee cup to keep from burning your hands. Context: Used casually among employees. Social Source: Eugene Starbuck's Employees. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| JACKET PREPARER | Occupations | Prepares jacket (worksheet) for guide in revising customer's printing job order: Compares new order with old one on file and records changes in format, such as size or color of sheet and content of material. Rewrites order listing changes and routes order to production department. (references) | |
| Jacket set | Mining | A. Set of timbers used in a shaft outside the regular shaft set, as extra protection in heavy ground b. Set like the larger shaft set with dividers omitted, except that the wall and end plates are broken at all joints to facilitate renewing. Used in heavy ground to protect the regular shaft timbers. The jacket set is placed outside the regular timbers, separated from them by short blocks, and is blocked and wedged against the rock. (references) | |
| Monkey Jacket | Literature | 1: A coat with no more tail than a monkey, or, more strictly speaking, an ape. 2: Giving a man a red-laced jacket. Military slang for giving a soldier a flogging. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Reflective jacket | Labor | Safety device for road maintenance crews. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Registration Jacket | Environment | Also Registration File. A file of documents supporting registration for each pesticide product. These files contain product labels, OPP and registrant correspondence, OPP science reviews and other information. (references) | |
| Sample Jacket | Regulation | The file containing the investigational, analytical, and compliance or regulatory recommendation and legal documents on any civil or criminal case. (references) | |
| Sayre jacket | Medicine | A plaster-of-Paris spinal support used in the treatment of spinal diseases. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Shell Jacket | Literature | (A). An undress military jacket. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Slip jacket | Metallurgy | In molding with snap-moulds, strap securing both parts of a snap-mould at the joint, placed in position before casting to avoid splitting of the mould under the effect of the liquid. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Strait jacket | Medicine | An appliance made from strong material and having long sleeves which extend beyond the hands. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Water jacket | Administration | A casing containing water circulated by a pump, used around a part to be cooled, especially in water-cooled internal-combustion engines. (references) | |
| Water jacket | Energy | A heat exchanger element enclosed in a boiler. Water is circulated with a pump through the jacket where it picks up heat from the combustion chamber after which the heated water circulates to heat distribution devices. A water jacket is also an enclosed water-filled chamber in a tankless coiled water heater. When a faucet is turned on water flows into the water heater heat exchanger. The water in the chamber is heated and transfers heat to the cooler water in the heat exchanger and is sent through the hot water outlet to the appropriate faucet. (references) | |
| Water jacket | Mining | Cast- or wrought-iron sections of a furnace so constructed as to allow free circulation of water for keeping the furnace cool. Also called waterblock and water box. (references) | |
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