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Jack Up

Definition: Jack Up

Jack Up

Verb

1. Lift with a jack, as of a car.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Jack Up

Synonym: jack (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Jack Up

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Union Jack Up (1987)

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Photo Album: Jack Up

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Power source for hoisting steel Jack up truck and use "fifth wheel" This could be dangerous - at least one leg broken by getting wrapped up Safety modifications made to system after individual severely injured Triangulation party of Paul A. Smith. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expression: Jack Up

Expression using "jack up": to jack up. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Jack Up

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

jack up barge

6

band beat ford ingram jack up

2
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Modern Translation: Jack Up

Language Translations for "jack up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skud(tage et) (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), shoot (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), loefte et skib op (to jack up a ship, to screw up a ship), fixe (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spuiten (squirt), shotten (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), pompen (pump), fixen (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), een shotje zetten (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), een schip opvijzelen (to jack up a ship, to screw up a ship), een schip oppompen (to jack up a ship, to screw up a ship). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

nostaa tunkilla. (various references)

   

French

  

soulever. (various references)

   

German

  

treiben (battue, be adrift, be up to, beat, bring, carry on, chase, commit, create, do, drift, drive, drive on, enchase, float, force, hustle and bustle, impel, leaven, make, make rise, move, propel, pursue, push, push out, put forth, put out, rush, shoo, sprout, swirling, throw out, thrust, to enchase, urge, work, wreak), in die höhe treiben, aufbocken (lay up). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αυτοανυψόμενος. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szemrehányást tesz (to blame, to jack up, to rebuke, to reproach, to upbraid), megemel (lift, to jack up, to raise). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mendongkrak. (various references)

   

Italian

  

farsi una pera (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), bucarsi (shoot up). (various references)

   

Manx

  

croghey (bank on, climb, cling, depend, drape, fly, hang, hinge, hinge as story, hoist, lean on, loft, pendant, pitch, sheer, spring, suspension, swing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackjay upay

   

Portuguese

  

picar (bite, chop, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, mince, pick, pique, point, prick, prickle, punch, spall, stab, stick, sting, swot, tingle), dar um fixo (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), chutar (kick), caldar (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to mainline, to shoot). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ridica cu cricul (Jack). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aumentar (accrue, add to, advance, amplify, augment, boost, bulk, enhance, expand, extend, freshen, gear up, get up, grow, heighten, hike, hike up, improve, increase, inflate, intensify, magnify, mark up, Mount, pile on, put up, step up, swell, up, upturn), alzar con gato. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lyfta (elevate, get off the ground, heave, heft, hump, Jack, lift, pitchfork, raise, take up, throw up, uplift), hissa (fly, hoist, Jack, lever, lift, pulley, raise, run up), höja (advance, appreciate, boost, enhance, improve, inflate, lift, perk, raise, uplift, work up). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เพิ่มราคาหรือค่าจ้าง (คำไม่เป็นทางการ), กระตุ้นให้รับผิ"ชอบ, ยกรถขึ้น"้วยเครื่องมือ, ยก"้วยแม่แรง, ขึ้นราคาสูงมาก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, get up, heighten, hike up, increase, Jack, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rear, rise, run up, scale up, screw up, send up, set up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave, uplift), kriko ile kaldırmak, kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

піднімати домкратом. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Jack Up

Misspellings

"Jack Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jackup. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Jack Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-j-k-p-u"

-1 letter: pucka.

-2 letters: jack, jauk, jaup, pack, puck, puja.

-3 letters: auk, cap, cup, pac.

-4 letters: ka, pa, up.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-j-k-p-u"
 

+4 letters: supplejack.

 

+5 letters: supplejacks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Jack Up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4A 61 63 6B      55 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001010 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01010101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#85 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0061 0063 006B      0055 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4467697725582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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