Jack

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.

   “jack of plate”

2. isim A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.

   “After Dinner they frisk away to some known Place of Rendezvous, where (at Night) every Jack has his Jill and every Jill has her Jack.”

3. isim A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.

   “Call you me daughter? now I promiſe you / You haue ſhewd a tender fatherly regard, / To wiſh me wed to one halfe Lunaticke, / A mad-cap ruffian, and a ſwearing Iacke, / That thinkes with oathes to face the matter out.”

4. isim A sailor.
5. isim A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.

   “When Wardell arrived on the scene, they were surprised to find that he was unshaven, and did not look too happy. One of them remarked: "The 'Jacks' (detectives) are after you."”

6. isim A manual laborer.
7. isim A lumberjack.
8. isim A sepoy.

   “I hope to God his theories will not unman him in action, that he will not be musing and refining when he should be leading the Jacks […]”

9. isim A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.

   “Our hero, among his other remarks, had obſerved, that in this place there was no ſuch utenſil as a jack, and that all the ſpits were turned by dogs, […]”

10. isim Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.

    “Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap / To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, / Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap, / At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!”

11. isim a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
12. isim A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
13. isim A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
14. isim A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.

    “She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.”

15. isim Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
16. isim A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
17. isim A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck-box.
18. isim A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
19. isim A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.

    “telephone jack”

20. isim A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.

    “Dead VVine that ſtinks of the Borrachio, ſup / From a fovvl Jack, or greaſie Maple Cup?”

21. isim The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
22. fiil To physically raise using a jack.

    “He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads.”

23. fiil To raise or increase.

    “If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.”

24. fiil To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.

    “Fruit of the orchard has been "jacked" these many generations, with Plymouth Rockers putting the hard cider barrel down into the ground to freeze, and […]”

25. fiil To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).

    “Someone jacked my car last night!”

26. fiil To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
27. fiil To jack off, to masturbate.

    “I don't even care about mine, I can get my shit off while jacking in the shower.”

28. fiil To fight.
29. fiil To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
30. sıfat Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).

    “In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain jack of each other.”