Dictionary Entry
jacket
jacket is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 22 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
- 4noun
A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket.
- 5transitive verb
To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.
- 6transitive verb
To thrash; to beat.
- 7noun
(dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
"tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown"
- 8noun
a short coat
- 9noun
an outer wrapping or casing
"phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets"
- 10noun
the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
- 11noun
the outer skin of a potato
- 12verb
put a jacket on
"The men were jacketed"
- 13verb
provide with a thermally non-conducting cover
"The tubing needs to be jacketed"
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