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Definition: Jack |
JackNoun1. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its seeds are commonly roasted. 2. An electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug. 3. Game equipment consisting of one of several small objects picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks. 4. Small flag indicating a ship's nationality. 5. One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince. 6. Tool for exerting pressure or lifting. 7. Any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm-temperate seas. 8. Male donkey. Verb1. Lift with a jack, as of a car. 2. Hunt with a jacklight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Jack" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the four letters", "be", "become". |
Date "jack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | An instrument requiring a strong arm, and used for raising heavy weights, or for pulling off the boots. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Biographical Satire | JACK, the man who kept company with Jill. Occupation: Water carrier. Killed while at work. Ambition: An artesian well in the valley. (See Jill.). Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Chemistry | Yellow, brown or black isometric mineral which is dimorphous with wurtzite and often contains manganese, arsenic, cadmium, and other elements. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A connector to mate with a telephone plug. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A spring-steel wire part comprising a straight stem containing a loop near the top, to which a string from the jacquard of the lace furnishing machine is attached, and a point at the top at right angles to the stem. The point can enter between the warp and pattern threads so as to restrict their lateral movement. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Jack I. APPLIED TO MEN, but always depreciatingly. (See Tom.) (1) Jack Adams. A fool. (2) Jack-a-dandy (q.v.). (3) Jack-a-dreams. A man of inaction, a mere dreamer. (4) Jack-a-drognes. A good-natured, lazy fool. (Dutch, druilen, to be listless; our drawl. (5) Jack-a-Lent. A half-starved, sheepish booby. Shakespeare says: "You little Jack-a-lent, have you been true to us?" (Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 3.) A kind of Aunt Sally which was thrown at in Lent. (See Cleveland's Poems [1660], p. 64.) (6) Jack-a-napes (q.v.). (7) Jack-at-a-pinch. One who lends a hand in an emergency; an itinerant clergyman who has no cure, but officiates for a fee in any church where his assistance is required. (8) Jack Brag. (See Brag.) (9) Jack Fool. More generally, Tom Fool (q.v.. (10) Jack Ketch (q.v.). (11) Jack-pudding (q.v.). (12) Jack-sauce. An insolent saucebox, "the worst Jack of the pack." Fluellen says one who challenges another and refuses to fight is a "Jack-sauce." (Henry V., iv. 7.) (13) Jack-snip. A botching tailor. (14) Jack-slave. "Every Jack-slave hath his belly full of fighting." (Shakespeare: Cymbeline, ii. 1.) (15) Jack-sprat (q.v.). (16) Jack-straw. A peasant rebel. (17) Jack-tar (q.v.). (18) Jack-in-office. A conceited official, or upstart, who presumes on his official appointment to give himself airs. (19) Jack-in-the-green. A chimney-sweep boy in the midst of boughs, on May Day. (20) Jack-in-the-water. An attendant at the waterman's stairs, etc., willing to wet his feet, if needs be, for a "few coppers." (21) Jack-of-all-trades. One who can turn his hand to anything, but excels in nothing. (22) Jack-of-both-sides. One who tries to favour two antagonistic parties, either from fear or for profit. (23) Jack-out-of-office. "But long I will not be Jack-out-of-office." (Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI., i. 1.) (24) Cheap Jack. (See Cheap.) (25) Jack will never be a gentleman. A mere parvenu will never be like a well-bred gentleman. (26) Every man-Jack of them. All without exception, even the most insignificant. (27) Remember poor Jack. Throw a copper to the boys paddling about the jetty or pier, or performing tricks under the hope of getting a small bounty. II. APPLIED TO BOYS WHO ACT THE PART OF MEN. (1) Jack Frost. Frost personified as a mischievous boy. (2) Jack Sprat. Who bears the same relation to a man as a sprat does to a mackerel or herring. (3) Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme). Jill or Gill is a contraction of Julienne or Gillian, a common Norman name. (See Jack, VII.) (4) Jack and the Bean-stalk (q.v.). (5) Jack and the Fiddler (q.v.). (6) Jack of cards. The Knave or boy of the king and queen of the same suit. (7) Jack the Giant-killer (q.v.). (8) Glym Jack. A link boy who carries a glym. (German, glimmen. (See Glim.) (9) Little Jack Horner. (See Jack Horner.) (10) The house that Jack built (nursery tale). III. APPLIED TO THE MALES OR INFERIOR ANIMALS: as - Jack-ass, Jack-baker (a kind of owl), Jack or dog fox, Jack-hare, Jack-hern, Jack-rat, Jack-shark, Jack-snipe; a young pike is called a Jack, so also were the male birds used in falconry. IV. APPLIED TO INSTRUMENTS which supply the place of or represent inferior men or boys: - (1) A jack. Used instead of a turn-spit boy, generally called Jack. (2) A jack. Used for lifting heavy weights. (3) Jack. The figure outside old public clocks made to strike the bell. "Strike like Jack o'the clock-house, never but in season." - Strode: Floating Island. (4) Jack-roll. The cylinder round which the rope of a well coils. (5) Jack-in-the-basket. The cap or basket on the top of a pole to indicate the place of a sandbank at sea, etc. (6) Jack-in-the-box. A toy consisting of a box out of which, when the lid is raised, a figure springs. (7) Boot-jack. An instrument for drawing off boots, which used to be done by inferior servants. (8) Bottle-jack. A machine for lifting the roast instead of a turnspit. (9) Lifting-jack. A machine for lifting the axle-tree of a carriage when the wheels are cleaned. (10) Roasting-jack. (See Bottle-jack, 8.) (11) Smoke-jack. An apparatus in a chimney-flue for turning a spit. It is made to revolve by the upward current of smoke and air. (12) Jack-chain. A small chain for turning the spit of a smoke-jack. V. APPLIED TO INFERIOR ARTICLES which bear the same relation to the thing imitated as Jack does to a gentleman. (1) Jack. A rough stool or wooden horse for sawing timber on. (2) Jack. A small drinking vessel made of waxed leather. "Body of me, I am dry still; give me the jack, boy." - Beaumont and Fletcher: Bloody Brother, ii. 2. (3) Jack. Inferior kind of armour. (See Jack, No. VIII.) (4) A Jack and a half-jack. Counters resembling a sovereign and a half-sovereign. Used at gaming-tables to make up a show of wealth. (5) Jack-block. A block attached to the topgallant-tie of a ship. (6) Jack-boots. Cumbrous boots of tough, thick leather worn by fishermen. Jacks or armour for the legs. (7) Jack-pan. A vessel used by barbers for heating water for their customers. (8) Jack-plane. A menial plane to do the rough work for finer instruments. (9) Jack-rafter. A rafter in a hipped roof, shorter than a full-sized one. (10) Jack-rib. An inferior rib in an arch, being shorter than the rest. (11) Jack-screw. A large screw rotating in a threaded socket, used for lifting heavy weights. (12) Jack-timbers. Timbers in a building shorter than the rest. (13) Jack-towel. A coarse, long towel hung on a roller, for the servants' use. (14) Jack of Dover (q.v.). (15) Jacket (q.v.). (16) Black jack. A huge drinking vessel. A Frenchman speaking of it says, "The English drink out of their boots." (Heywood. VI. A TERM OF CONTEMPT. (1) Jack-a-lantern or Jack-o'-lantern, the fool fire (ignis fatuus. (2) Jack-ass. An unmitigated fool. (3) Jack-at-bowls. The butt of all the players. (4) Jack-daw. A prating nuisance. (5) Jack Drum's entertainment (q.v). (6) Jackey. A monkey. (7) Skip-jack. A toy, an upstart. (8) The black jack. The turnip-fly. (9) The yellow jack. The yellow fever. VII. USED IN PROVERBIAL PHRASES. A good Jack makes a good Jill. A good husband makes a good wife, a good master makes a good servant. Jack, a generic name for man, husband, or master; and Gill or Jill, his wife or female servant. Every Jack shall have his Jill. Every man may find a wife if he likes; or rather, every country rustic shall find a lass to be his mate. "Jack shall have his Jill, Nought shall go ill; The man shall have his mare again, and all shall Be well." Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2. To play the Jack. To play the rogue or knave; to deceive or lead astray like Jack-o'-lantern, or ignis fatuus. " - your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy, has done little better than played the Jack with us." - Shakespeare: Tempest, iv. 1. To be upon their jacks. To have the advantage over one. The reference is to the coat of mail quilted with stout leather, more recently called a jerkin. VIII. ~~~Jack Jack Armour consisting of a leather surcoat worn over the hauberk, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, both inclusive. It was formed by overlapping pieces of steel fastened by one edge upon canvas, coated over with cloth or velvet. In short, it was a surcoat padded with metal to make it sword-proof. These jazerines were worn by the peasantry of the English borders when they journeyed from place to place, and in their skirmishes with moss-troopers. "Jackes quilted and covered over with leather, fustian, or canvas, over thicke plates of iron that are sowed to the same." - Lily: Euphues. Colonel Jack. The hero of Defoe's novel so called. He is a thief who goes to Virginia, and becomes the owner of vast plantations and a family of slavès. Jack and ~~~James. James. Jewish, Jacob; French, Jacques, our "Jack," and Jacquemes, our "James." Jacques used to be the commonest name of France, hence the insurrection of the common people was termed the insurrection of the Jacques, or the Jacquerie; and a rustic used to be called a Jacques bon homme. The Scotch call Jack Jock. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Powered linear actuator. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A support that can be extended from an aerial ladder or aerial platform apparatus to stabilize the truck chassis. Also called: ground jack, jack, outrigger, stabilizer. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A name for zinc ore; blackjack. See:sphalerite b. Cannel coal interstratified with shale. c. Coaly shale, commonly canneloid. d. To drill a rock by hand, using a 4-lb (1.8-kg) hammer in one hand and a steel drill in the other ("single jacking"). "Double jacking" is to use a two-handed (sledge) hammer with the steel drill held by another worker. e. A portable device used for exerting great pressure or for lifting aheavy body through a small distance. Syn:anchor jack. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The device in which the male connecting elements of a plug make contact with female connecting elements embodied in the socket. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Usually kept in a jacket pocket. A shared behavior within the goup. They just began referring to the jacket pocket when they wanted a cigarette and then shortened it to "jack". Additional origins include the phrase "jack in the box". Definition: A jack is a cigarette, generally found in a cigarette pack kept in the jacket pocket. Context: Used anytime the group desires to go out for a smoke together. Social Source: Weathered Irish Nomads. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | JACK. A farthing, a small bowl serving as the mark for bowlers. An instrument for pulling off boots. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Jack can have several meanings.For electrical connectors, see Jack (connector).
In English language-speaking nations, Jack is a popular name for males. Jack is often seen as a nickname for John, although it can be a first name in its own right, especially in the United Kingdom.
In playing cards, the Jack is the lowest of the face cards and 11th in games that rank the Two (deuce) as lowest and Ace as highest. The jack was originally called the Knave. In blackjack, the Jack has a value of 10.
In naval and maritime terminology, a Jack is a flag used to identify the nationality of a ship's home port. It is usually a smaller version of the national flag with a modified design.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jack."
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In electronics, a jack is a socket.In some cases it is arbitrary which of a pair of mating connectors is the plug, and which the socket. See plug.
The term jack occurs in several related terms:
When used with a size, the term jack refers to the socket that matches the corresponding size of jack plug, as in 6.5mm jack, 6.3mm jack, 1/4" jack, 3.5mm jack, miniature jack, 2.5mm jack, subminiature jack, and similarly for non-standard sizes.
- In the telephone jack of old-style manual telephone exchanges, which is the socket fitting the original 1/4" jack plug, also known as a phone jack.
- In the RJ in RJ11, RJ45 and similar which stands for registered jack, see RJ-XX.
- In the name RCA jack, also known as a phono jack or 1/4" phono jack.
A headphone jack or earphone jack is normally one of the three standard sizes of jack, but the term could refer to any socket used for this purpose.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jack (connector)."
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The JACK Audio Connection Kit or JACK is a daemon that provides low latency connections between so-called jackified applications. JACK is free audio software. Currently it needs ALSA.
Some software that works with JACK:
- JACK Paul Davis's professional-quality low-latency audio server for connecting out-of-process applications
- Ardour, a Digital Audio Workstation is one of the most promising free audio applications.
- Freqtweak is a program that allows for individually tweaking the frequency bands.
- Demeter from Steve Harris, "... a thing for showing distortion in JACK systems, AD/DA converters or whatever"
- JACK Rack another fine utility from Bob Ham
- JACK Timemachine Steve Harris's "simple program to record sounds that would otherwise have been lost"
- LADCCA introducing the Linux Audio Developer's Configuration and Connection API, "... a session management system for JACK and ALSA audio applications on GNU/Linux."
- Meterbridge more cool JACK-based software from Steve Harris
- PyJack Python module to provide an interface to the JACK server
- QJackConnect a Qt-based patchbay for JACK, from Dr. Matthias Nagorni
- jacko a nice wxPython GUI for controlling JACK
- k_jack adds JACK capability to pure data, more cool software from Kjetil Matheussen
- libjackasyn Günter Geiger's "... library that converts programs written for the OSS system into JACK-aware applications (sort of)"
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "JACK Audio Connection Kit."
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Jack Butler Yeats was an Irish artist who wrote and illustrated for books and magazines. Later in life he became known as a landscapist and expressionist.He was the youngest son of irish portraitist John Butler Yeats, and the brother of the poet William Butler Yeats.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jack Butler Yeats."
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Jack Warner is the name of two contemporary showbusiness personalities, one American and one British.This article is about Jack Warner, the head of Warner Brothers. For the British actor of the same name, see Jack Warner (actor)
Jack Warner (August 2, 1892 - September 9, 1978) born, Jack Leonard Eichelbaum in London, Ontario, Canada, was the President and driving force behind the highly successful development of Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, California.
The youngest of 12 children of Jewish immigrants from Poland, the rest of the Warner children were born in the United States.
Jack Warner died on September 9, 1978 in Los Angeles, California and is buried in Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.
See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jack Warner."
Synonyms: JackSynonyms: jackass (n), jackfruit (n), jak (n), knave (n), jack up (v), jacklight (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: black-jack (chemistry). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Ace, king, queen, knave, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, trey, deuce; joker; trump, wild card. |
Auxiliary | Friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina, guardian angel, tutelary genius. |
Clothing | Shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery. |
Director | Officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat; man in office, Jack in office; office bearer; person in authority. |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
Disobedience | Insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader. |
Humorist | Buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass; fool. |
Indication | Insignia; banner, banneret, bannerol; bandrol; flag, colors, streamer, standard, eagle, labarum, oriflamb, oriflamme; figurehead; ensign; pennon, pennant, pendant; burgee, blue Peter, jack, ancient, gonfalon, union jack; banderole, " old glory ", quarantine flag; vexillum; yellow-flag, yellow jack; tricolor, stars and stripes; bunting. |
Mariner | Noun: sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer, seafaring man; dock walloper; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A. B.; man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower; boatswain, coxswain; steersman, pilot; crew. |
Proficient | Pantologist, admirable Crichton, Jack of all trades; prodigy of learning. |
Rotation | Carousel, merry-go-round; Ferris wheel; top, dreidel,teetotum; gyroscope; turntable, lazy suzan; screw, whirligig, rollingstone, water wheel, windmill; wheel, pulley wheel, roulette wheel, potter's wheel, pinwheel, gear; roller; flywheel; jack; caster; centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, bench centrifuge, refrigerated centrifuge, gas centrifuge, microfuge; drill, augur, oil rig; wagon wheel, wheel, tire, tyre. |
Scourge | Goaler, jailer; executioner; electrocutioner; lyncher; hangman; headsman; Jack Ketch. |
Sexuality | Masturbate, jerk off, jack off, play with oneself. |
The Drama | Mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat; contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee danseuse. |
Thief | Burglar, housebreaker; cracksman, magsman; Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Peter once asked me, when it was that I fell in love with Jack, and I told him, it was while you were sleeping (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow) This is America, Jack! Say another word about Lisa, and I'll break my foot off in your royal ass (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield) Whatever gets it up for you jack. (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples) Hey Jack, why don't you tell 'em about your little phone call in Thai (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke) Jack, my word is my bond (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;) | |
Lyrics | But it's all right, I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash, (JUMPING JACK FLASH; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) It's you and me baby no pimp daddy jack (Just Push Play; performing artist: Aerosmith) Jack be nimble, Jack be quick (Limbo Rock/Hand Jive; performing artist: Brave Combo) Jack and Jill went up the hill to get a pail (Jump Jive An' Wail; performing artist: Brian Setzer Orchestra; writing credit: L. Prima) Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack (HUNGRY HEART; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) | |
Clever | You're trailer trash when Jack Daniel's makes your list of "most admired people. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kangaroo Jack (2003) Jack and the Beanstalk (2000) The Trial of Billy Jack (1974) Jack the Ripper (1974) The Aunty Jack Show (1972) | |
Song Titles | Jack O'Diamonds (performing artist: Lonnie Donegan) Black Jack Davy (performing artist: The Incredible String Band) Jack & Diane (performing artist: John Cougar) From A Jack To A King (performing artist: Ned Miller) Hit The Road Jack (performing artist: Ray Charles) | |
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 | Trying not to get stuck Old lake bed of Great Salt Lake Triangulation party of Jack Sammons. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | "Jack" the mascot of the GEDNEY There is no record of how he got along with Billy the Bear. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | About 400 tons of jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi) are caught by a Chilean purse seiner. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Peruvian scientist sampling blue jack mackerel (Trachurus picturatus). Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Jack Parrish, Flight Director, heavy aircraft on a mission. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | Jack crevalle - Caranx hippos. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Healthy seagrass with a jack in the background. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | Artist's rendition of Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship DISCOVERER OSS02 by artist Jack Coggins. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Master Sgts. Jack Church and Vance Gorham lead the 338th Recruiting Squadron in the Combined Federal Campaign aircraft pull competition recently at the U.S. Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The 338th RCS took top honors, tugging th. |  | Sign Happy Jack Chalk mine Scotia, NE. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Jack Danile´s" by Parahype Commentary: "Jack Danile´s Candlelight." | "Jack Frost" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "An icy January morning." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Jack London | Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. |
| A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. | |
Jack Paar | Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. |
| Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it. | |
| I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. | |
| Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other. | |
| I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Javert, who came up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a jack. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Jack Lawton looked over from his side |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Al released the jack and lowered the car. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The world’s best golf players are American, such as Tiger Woods, who is currently considered even better than Jack Nicklaus. (references) | |
Economic History | Australia | Flag: On a blue field, U.K. Union Jack in the top left corner, a large white star directly beneath symbolizing federation, and five smaller white stars on the right half representing the Southern Cross constellation. (references) |
Costa Rica | Over US$ 1 billion of new tourism investment is under consideration in the Papagayo Gulf on the Pacific Coast, to include upscale resort operators such as Rosewood and Four Seasons and golf courses by Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Greg Norman. (references) | |
Panama | Panama's container handling capability has increased from 250,000 in 1997 to approximately 1.5 million in 2000. This figure is likely to increase to two million in 2001. A new transisthmian railroad, built by the U.S. firms Kansas City Southern and M.I. Jack began operating in July 2001. The railroad will increase port activities by allowing surface container transshipment between the two oceans. (references) | |
Human Rights | Chile | In March British Home Secretary Jack Straw denied Spain's request on the basis of medical exams indicating that Pinochet was unfit mentally and physically to defend himself against the charges; Pinochet returned to Chile where he faced charges in numerous human rights cases. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers -- particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives. Lead is also of great service as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities. Hail, holy Lead! -- of human feuds the great And universal arbiter; endowed With penetration to pierce any cloud Fogging the field of controversial hate, And with a sift, inevitable, straight, Searching precision find the unavowed But vital point. Thy judgment, when allowed By the chirurgeon, settles the debate. O useful metal! -- were it not for thee We'd grapple one another's ears alway: But when we hear thee buzzing like a bee We, like old Muhlenberg, "care not to stay." And when the quick have run away like pellets Jack Satan smelts the dead to make new bullets. |
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Bob Schieffer | Well, Jack, we're not going to be writing much about the war. We're going to be writing about people, people from Fort Worth, people from Texas, people from this area. |
Dennis Miller | Make Kenneth Lay work the drive-thru at Jack In The Box so I can literally hear that lying bastard's voice coming out of a clown's mouth. |
Robert Novak | But there are thoughtful Republicans with second thoughts about invading. House Majority Leader Dick Armey has warned against an unprovoked attack. Caution from Brent Scowcroft, Jack Kemp, Chuck Hagel, Dick Lugar. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The last person I want to introduce is Jack Lucas from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Jack" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.76% of the time. "Jack" is used about 5,384 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 92.76% | 4,995 | 1,965 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.06% | 219 | 20,419 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.61% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.52% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.04% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,384 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "jack" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Jack | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,217 |
| Jack | First name Male | 315,000 | 53 |
| Jack | Last name | 7,000 | 1,852 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Jack" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the four letters", "be", "become". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Jack." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Malone | Male | N/A | John |
| Gjon | Male | Albanian | John |
| Yahya | Male | Arabic | John |
| Hovhannes | Male | Armenian | John |
| Ion | Male | Basque | John |
| Jon | Male | Basque | John |
| Joanna | Female | Biblical | John |
| John | Male | Biblical | Yahweh |
| Yochanan | Male | Biblical (Original) | John |
| Yann | Male | Breton | John |
| Ioan | Male | Bulgarian | John |
| Ioana | Female | Bulgarian | John |
| Joan | Male | Catalan | John |
| Jowan | Male | Cornish | John |
| Ivan | Male | Croatian | John |
| Ivan | Male | Czech | John |
| Jan | Male | Czech | John |
| Jana | Female | Czech | John |
| Johan | Male | Czech | John |
| Jens | Male | Danish | John |
| Jan | Male | Dutch | John |
| Jana | Female | Dutch | John |
| Johanna | Female | Dutch | John |
| Johannes | Male | Dutch | John |
| Evan | Male | English | John |
| Hank | Male | English | John |
| Ian | Male | English | John |
| Jack | Male | English | John |
| Jackie | Male, Female | English | Jack |
| Jackson | Male | English | Jack |
| Jake | Male | English | Jack |
| Jan | Female | English | John |
| Jane | Female | English | John |
| Joan | Female | English | John |
| Joanna | Female | English | John |
| John | Male | English | Yahweh |
| Johnie | Male | English | John |
| Johnnie | Male, Female | English | John |
| Johnny | Male | English | John |
| Jonelle | Female | English | John |
| Jonette | Female | English | John |
| Jonie | Female | English | John |
| Jochjo | Male | Esperanto | John |
| Johano | Male | Esperanto | John |
| Hannu | Male | Finnish | John |
| Jani | Male | Finnish | John |
| Joni | Male | Finnish | John |
| Jouni | Male | Finnish | John |
| Juha | Male | Finnish | John |
| Juhana | Male | Finnish | John |
| Juhani | Male | Finnish | John |
| Juho | Male | Finnish | John |
| Jukka | Male | Finnish | John |
| Jussi | Male | Finnish | John |
| Jean | Male | French | John |
| Jeanne | Female | French | John |
| Yann | Male | French | John |
| Xoán | Male | Galician | John |
| Jan | Male | German | John |
| Johan | Male | German | John |
| Johann | Male | German | John |
| Johanna | Female | German | John |
| Johannes | Male | German | John |
| Ioanna | Female | Greek | John |
| Ioannes | Male | Greek | John |
| Ioannis | Male | Greek | John |
| Yannis | Male | Greek | John |
| Keoni | Male | Hawaiian | John |
| János | Male | Hungarian | John |
| Jani | Male | Hungarian | John |
| Johanna | Female | Hungarian | John |
| Jón | Male | Icelandic | John |
| Eoin | Male | Irish | John |
| Seán | Male | Irish | John |
| Giovanna | Female | Italian | John |
| Giovanni | Male | Italian | John |
| Johannes | Male | Late Roman | John |
| Janis | Male | Latvian | John |
| Jonas | Male | Lithuanian | John |
| Jovan | Male | Macedonian | John |
| Ean | Male | Manx | John |
| Jonette | Female | Norwegian | John |
| Iwan | Male | Polish | John |
| Jan | Male | Polish | John |
| Jana | Female | Polish | John |
| Joanna | Female | Polish | John |
| João | Male | Portuguese | John |
| Joana | Female | Portuguese | John |
| Iancu | Male | Romanian | John |
| Ioan | Male | Romanian | John |
| Ioana | Female | Romanian | John |
| Ion | Male | Romanian | John |
| Ionel | Male | Romanian | John |
| Ionela | Female | Romanian | John |
| Ionut | Male | Romanian | John |
| Ioann | Male | Russian | John |
| Ivan | Male | Russian | John |
| Jan | Male | Scandinavian | John |
| Johan | Male | Scandinavian | John |
| Johanna | Female | Scandinavian | John |
| Johannes | Male | Scandinavian | John |
| Jon | Male | Scandinavian | John |
| Eoin | Male | Scottish | John |
| Iain | Male | Scottish | John |
| Ian | Male | Scottish | John |
| Jock | Male | Scottish | Jack |
| Jockie | Male | Scottish | Jack |
| Jocky | Male | Scottish | Jack |
| Seoc | Male | Scottish | Jack |
| Ivan | Male | Serbian | John |
| Jovan | Male | Serbian | John |
| Jovana | Female | Serbian | John |
| Janez | Male | Slovene | John |
| Juan | Male | Spanish | John |
| Yahweh | Male | Theology | N/A |
| Evan | Male | Welsh | John |
| Iefan | Male | Welsh | John |
| Ieuan | Male | Welsh | John |
| Ifan | Male | Welsh | John |
| Siôn | Male | Welsh | John |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| South Africa | Simmer and Jack Mines, Limited | USA | Jack in the Box Incorporated |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Jack, AL |
Expressions using "jack": apple jack ♦ be a jack of all trades ♦ before one can say jack robinson ♦ before you could say jack robinson ♦ black Jack ♦ black Jack Pershing ♦ Blue jack ♦ buffalo jack ♦ bumper jack ♦ California jack ♦ car jack ♦ cheap jack ♦ crevalle jack ♦ Curlew Jack ♦ data Jack ♦ every man jack ♦ ground jack ♦ high low Jack and the game ♦ hydraulic jack ♦ Jack afloat ♦ jack and jill ♦ Jack arch ♦ Jack at a pinch ♦ Jack back ♦ jack bar ♦ jack bean ♦ Jack block ♦ jack boot ♦ Jack boots ♦ jack box ♦ Jack Cade ♦ Jack County ♦ jack crevalle ♦ jack crosstree ♦ Jack curlew ♦ Jack Dempsey ♦ Jack frame ♦ jack frost ♦ Jack hare ♦ jack in ♦ jack in it! ♦ jack in office ♦ Jack Kennedy ♦ Jack Kerouac ♦ jack ketch ♦ Jack Kilby ♦ jack knife ♦ jack knives ♦ jack ladder ♦ jack lamp ♦ Jack Lemmon ♦ Jack London ♦ jack mackerel ♦ Jack Nicklaus ♦ jack oak ♦ jack of all trades ♦ jack of the clock house ♦ jack off ♦ jack pine ♦ jack pins ♦ jack plane ♦ Jack post ♦ Jack pot ♦ jack rabbit ♦ Jack rafter ♦ jack rings ♦ jack robinson ♦ Jack Roosevelt Robinson ♦ jack salmon ♦ Jack sauce ♦ Jack shaft ♦ Jack Sheppard ♦ Jack sinker ♦ jack slip ♦ Jack snipe ♦ Jack staff ♦ jack star ♦ jack stay ♦ jack tar ♦ Jack the Giant Killer ♦ jack the ripper ♦ Jack timber ♦ Jack towel ♦ Jack tree ♦ Jack truss ♦ jack up ♦ Jack William Nicklaus ♦ jack works ♦ Jack yard ♦ jumping jack ♦ Lamp jack ♦ lazy jack ♦ Lever jack ♦ Lifting jack ♦ log jack ♦ Lone Jack ♦ lumber jack ♦ man jack ♦ outrigger jack ♦ phone jack ♦ pilot jack. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "jack": Jack-a-dandy, jack-a-lantern, Jack-a-lent, Jack-and-the-beanstalk, jack-arch, Jack-at-all-trades, Jack-at-a-pinch, jack-booted, jack-boots, jack-by-the-hedge, jack-cap, jack-easy, jack-frost, jack-hammer, jack-hazel, Jack-in-a-box, Jack-in-office, jack-in-the, jack-in-the-box, jack-in-the-boxes, Jack-in-the-bush, Jack-in-the-green, jack-in-the-pulpit, jack-knife, jack-knifed, jack-knifes, jack-knifing, jack-lanterns, jack-lift, jack-of-all-aeronautical-trades, jack-of-all-trades, Jack-of-the-buttery, Jack-of-the-clock, Jack-o'-greens, jack-o'-lantern, jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern fungus, jack-o'-lanterns, jack-on, Jack-on-both-sides, Jack-out-of-office, jack-plate, jack-plug, jack-pot, jack-pots, jack-priest, jack-pudding, Jack-roller, jack-screw, jack-slave, jack-snipe, jack-staff, jack-stone, jack-stones, jack-straw, jack-straws, jack-swigging, Jack-tar, Jack-the-lad, jack-towel, jack-up, jack-waving, Jack-with-a-lantern. | |
Ending with "jack": hi-jack, Holly-jack. | |
Containing "jack": union-jack-encrusted, Union-jack-i'm-backing-britain. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
black jack | 12,778 | black jack strategy | 501 |
jack johnson | 5,906 | fm jack | 488 |
jack russell terrier | 4,476 | jack black | 479 |
jack | 3,112 | jack off jill | 472 |
jack daniel | 2,548 | jack van impe | 462 |
jack russell | 2,128 | you don t know jack | 442 |
jack in the box | 1,784 | jack handey | 435 |
jack the ripper | 1,461 | the rule for black jack | 409 |
jack off | 1,424 | jack kerouac | 407 |
jack johnson lyrics | 1,114 | black jack online | 404 |
black jack free | 850 | jack london | 400 |
samurai jack | 840 | free black jack game | 385 |
kangaroo jack | 724 | free online black jack | 350 |
jack nicholson | 676 | farmer jack | 348 |
jack johnson tab | 667 | union jack | 330 |
black jack game | 649 | jack and jill | 328 |
jack russel | 586 | beasley jack jane welch | 302 |
play black jack | 577 | black jack table | 298 |
online black jack | 521 | jack o lantern | 279 |
strip black jack | 505 | jack ass | 276 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "jack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Pirun I Gjatë, Ngrec, Ngre Me Krik, Mlysh (Luce, pickerel, Pike), Krik (jack-screw), Flamur (banner, ensign, flag, gonfalon, standard), Fant (knave), Djalë (boy, chap, child, egg, fella, fellow, Johnny, lad, loon, man child, son, Walla, youngster), Detar (hand, marine, mariner, maritime, nautical, naval, sailor, sea, seafarer, seafaring, seagoing, seaman, tar), Burrë (chap, fellow, husband, lad, Lord, male, man, mate, men, Mister, my better half). (various references) | |
Arabic | فيشة كهرباء, فلينة, مطواة كبيرة, مريب (doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, fishy, problematic, queer, questionable, suspicious), خنزير صغير (piggy, piglet), المقبس الفيوس, الولد في ورق الكوتشينة, الحاك ضرب من البراندي, الذكر الصغير من سمك سليمان, رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift), رافعة (derrick, hoist, lever, lift, rig, whip, winch). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | omahkáattsistaa (jack rabbit). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Момче (Buster), Ракия, Събувалка, Шапка, Изоставям, Бутон, Вале, Детектив (Dick), Дефлектор, Лост, Надничар, Зарязвам, Работник, Малък Корабен Национален Флаг, човек (being, bloke, bod, body, fellow, figure, guy, head, homo, human, human being, individual, Johnny, joker, liver, Mac, man, person, piece, subject, thing, type, Wight, you), Моряк, Мъжко Магаре, Мъжкото На Различни Животни, Качвам (Mount), Кожена Войнишка Куртка, Кожена Кана За Вино, Крик, Пари, Подемно Устройство, Повдигам С Крик, Пружинен Превключвател, Млада Щука. (various references) | |
Chinese | 杰克, 小起重機 . (various references) | |
Czech | Jeník, Zvedák (uppercut), Zdvihák (hoist, lifter), Spodek (bottom, knave, substructure, underneath), Ruèník (jack-towel, towel), Kluk (bloke, boy, fellow, guy, knave, lad, son, youngster), Honza, Hever, Chlap (chap, cove, guy). (various references) | |
Danish | donkraft (hydraulic jack). (various references) | |
Dutch | krik, dommekracht, vijzel (mortar). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kriko, bubo (brat, urchin). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vinda (contort, roll, roll up, twist, wind, wind up), spæl (game). (various references) | |
Farsi | سرباز(درورق بازی), جک زدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | jakkiliitin, vintturi (winch, windlass), tunkki, sotamies (enlisted man, G.I, knave, private, soldier), sinkkivälke (blackjack, blende, false galena, mock lead, mock ore, pseudogalena, sphalerite, steel jack, zinc blende), pistukka (socket), pistokosketin (plug), hauki (pickerel, pike). (various references) | |
French | cric. (various references) | |
German | Wagenheber (car-jack, jacks), Heber (hydraulic jack, lifter, pipette, siphon, weigh-lifter), Stecker (connector, connectors, male, male plug, plug), Klinke (catch, handle, latch, pawl, ratchet). (various references) | |
Greek | γρύλος (cricket). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ֳגל, ־ניף, ־נוף (Derrick), ־נוע, ּהגביה, ּהרים ֱמנוף, ּהניף, ֱרנש, קן (cell, chamber, habitation, nest, shelter, socket), ׁמל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bubi (knave). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kelasi, dongkrak (screw-jack), dongkel. (various references) | |
Italian | cricco (click), Martinetto (hydraulic jack). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ジャスミン茶 (jab, jackal, jack-knife, jackpot, JAL PAK, jam, jam bun, jam session, Jamaica, jammer, jamming, Jap, Japan, Japan bashing, Japan Cup, Japan Foundation, Japan shift, Japan Society, Japan Times, Japanese, Japanese English, Japanese management, Japanese smile, Japanesque, Japanologist, Japanology, Japonaiserie, Japonica, jasmine tea, JASRAC, javelin, jazz, jazz band, jazz chorus, jazz dance, jazz festival, jazz life, jazz piano, jazz singer, jazz song, jazzmen, judge, judge paper, judgement, juggle, junction, junk, junk accessories, junk art, junk bond, junk food, junkie), 万力 (capstan, vise). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まんりき (capstan, vise), ジャック , ジャッキ . (various references) | |
Korean | 잭 (jacks). (various references) | |
Manx | Eoineen (Johnnie, Shauneen), brattagh croan spreih. (various references) | |
Norwegian | jekk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | macaco (ape, hoist, jackanapes, macaco, macaque, monkey, simian), jaque. (various references) | |
Romanian | Jack, Muncitor (active, hard working, industrious, journeyman, laborer, laboring, laborious, labourer, labouring, operative, operose, toiler, worker, working, workman), Bãrbat (he, hubby, husband, male, man, spouse), Bani (cash, chink, dough, dust, kale, lucre, means, money, purse, rhino, the furniture of one's pocket), Caprã (buck, chock, coach box, goat, horse, kid, leap-frog, nanny goat, rafter, saw-horse, she-goat, stool), Cetãţean (bird, Burgess, burgher, citizen, cove, denizen, dog, duck, fellow, Freeman, Johnny, joker, national, native, party), Cric (crank), Geam (broad-glass, glass, window, window glass), Bãiat (beggar, boy, caddie, chap, child, fellow, guy, lad, scout, son, youngster, youth), Marinar (blue, mariner, navigator, sailor, seafaring man, seaman), Vinci (capstan, crank, winch, windlass), Om (fellow, human, husband, individual, male, man, my man, person, somebody, soul, spouse, subject), Parale (rhino, the necessary), Ridica Cu Cricul (jack up), Suflet (backbone, bosom, breast, breath, conscience, feeling, ghost, head, heart, inner man, life, life blood, man, mind, mortal, party, peppiness, soul, spirit), Suport (bolster, carriage, chuck, foot, holdfast, leg, mat, Mount, pad, pedal, plinth, prop, puncheon, reliance, shore, stanchion, stand, steady, stem, support), Ucenic (apprentice, beginner, disciple, tyro), Valet (body servant, boots, face card, footboy, footman, knave, valet), Maimuţoi (aper, fright). (various references) | |
Russian | Поднимать Домкратом, Поддомкрачивать, Парень (Johnny), Козлы, Щука (Luce, Pike), Лебедка (Jenny), Домкрат, Валет, Рычаг. (various references) | |
Scottish | Seumas (Jacob, James). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | utikač (plug), utičnica, pub u kartama, pub, policajac (bobby, constable, cop, flatfoot, officer, patrolman, peace officer, police constable, police officer, policeman, portreeve, sowar, trooper), podizati dizalicom, piljak (huckle-bone, jack-stone), mužjak (buck, cock sparrow, he, male), mornar (deckhand, mariner, sailor, seaman), momak (bachelor, boy, boyfriend, bugger, chap, gossoon, guy, lad, skate, sport), dizalica (crab, crane, derrick, elevator, hoist, jack-lift, jenny, lifter, shear-legs, sheer-legs), dići (boost, elevate, heave, hoist, lift, raise, rise, stir up), čovek (bloke, chap, fellow, homo, human, human being, man, maun, one, person, stiff, walla). (various references) | |
Spanish | gato (cat, moneybag, tickle, tomcat), jota (iota, jot, whit). (various references) | |
Swedish | domkraft (jackscrew, jack-screw, screw jack), Jack (gash, indentation, jag). (various references) | |
Thai | แม่แรง, ต้นขนุน (jackfruit), ตัวเชื่อมกระแสไฟ, ลูกขนุน (jackfruit). (various references) | |
Turkish | Yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, get up, heighten, hike up, increase, jack up, 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), Vale (knave, vole), Sancak (banner, colors, ensign, flag, oriflamme, sanjak, standard, starboard), Priz (outlet, plug, plug socket, power outlet, power point, receptacle, socket, switch plug, wall plug), Para (boodle, brass, bread, cash, chink, chip, coffers, coin, currency, dough, ducat, dust, filthy lucre, funds, green, kale, lolly, lucre, means, monetary, money, oof, pay dirt, pecuniary, purse, rhino, rock, shekels, shiners, sugar, tin, wherewithal), Mangır (brass, bread, doit, dough, dust, kale, lolly, money, oof, rhino), Kriko Ýle Kaldırmak, Kriko (car jack, lifting jack), 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 up, 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), Kaldıraç (handspike, heaver, lever, prise, prize, pry), Erkek Tavşan, Erkek Eşek (jackass), Erkek (boy, fellow, gent, he, he-, male, man, masculine, Tom), Adam (bean, bird, bozo, Buster, chap, cookie, cooky, cuss, Dick, dog, employee, feller, fellow, fellow man, guy, joker, man, person). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юtepsel (r) (plug). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Підвищувати Ціни, Піднімати Домкратом, Працівник, Занапастити, Щучка, Хлопець (Dick, Mac), Домкрат. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thợ, tay đòn, rất nhanh (dashing), người đi làm thuê làm mướn, không kịp ngáp, không kịp kêu lên một tiếng, đòn bẩy giá. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Esox lucius, Esox lucius (Linnaeus). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "jack": jackal, jackals, jackanapes, jackanapeses, jackaroo, jackaroos, jackass, jackasseries, jackassery, jackasses, jackboot, jackbooted, jackboots, jackdaw, jackdaws, jacked, jacker, jackeroo, jackeroos, jackers, jacket, jacketed, jacketing, jacketless, jackets, jackfish, jackfishes, jackfruit, jackfruits, jackhammer, jackhammered, jackhammering, jackhammers, jackies, jacking, jackknife, jackknifed, jackknifes, jackknifing, jackknives, jackleg, jacklegs, jacklight, jacklights, jackpot, jackpots, jackrabbit, jackrabbits, jackroll, jackrolled, jackrolling. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "jack": amberjack, antihijack, applejack, blackjack, bluejack, bootjack, cheapjack, crackajack, crackerjack, flapjack, highjack, hijack, lumberjack, skipjack, skyjack, slapjack, smokejack, steeplejack, supplejack. (additional references) | |
Words containing "jack": amberjacks, applejacks, blackjacked, blackjacking, blackjacks, bluejacket, bluejackets, bluejacks, bootjacks, carjacker, carjackers, carjacking, carjackings, cheapjacks, crackajacks, crackerjacks, flapjacks, highjacked, highjacking, highjacks, hijacked, hijacker, hijackers, hijacking, hijackings, hijacks, lumberjacks, rejacket, rejacketed, rejacketing, rejackets, skipjacks, skyjacked, skyjacker, skyjackers, skyjacking, skyjackings, skyjacks, slapjacks, smokejacks, steeplejacks, straightjacket, straightjacketed, straightjacketing, straightjackets, straitjacket, straitjacketed, straitjacketing, straitjackets, supplejacks. (additional references) | |
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"Jack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ack, Ajc, gack, Gauck, jac, jaca, Jacci, jace, jach, jaci, jacka, jacke, jacko, Jackou, jacl, Jaco, jact, jacy, Jaico, jak, jaka, ja-kki, jalk, Jamc, Jancik, jank, janko, jark, jask, jauk, jawk, jax, jazc, Jccu, jcu, jec, Jeck, Jek, jic, Jick, jict, Jik, jilk, joak, joci, juc, juck, juktki, jusk, ljack, zack. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "jack" (pronounced ja"k) |
| 2 | -a" k | aback, attack, back, black, clack, crack, Dak, Flack, flak, hack, knack, lac, lack, Mac, Mack, Pac, pack, plack, plaque, quack, rack, repack, sac, sack, shack, slack, smack, snack, stack, tack, track, unpack, wack, whack, wrack, yack, Yak. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-j-k" | |
-2 letters: ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-j-k" | |
+1 letter: jacks, jacky. | |
+2 letters: hijack, jackal, jacked, jacker, jacket. | |
+3 letters: hijacks, jackals, jackass, jackdaw, jackers, jackets, jackies, jacking, jackleg, jackpot, lockjaw, skyjack. | |
+4 letters: bluejack, bootjack, flapjack, highjack, hijacked, hijacker, jackaroo, jackboot, jackdaws, jackeroo, jacketed, jackfish, jacklegs, jackpots, jackroll, jackstay, lockjaws, rejacket, skipjack, skyjacks, slapjack. | |
+5 letters: amberjack, applejack, blackjack, bluejacks, bootjacks, carjacker, cheapjack, flapjacks, highjacks, hijackers, hijacking, jackaroos, jackasses, jackboots, jackeroos, jacketing, jackfruit, jackknife, jacklight, jackrolls, jackscrew, jacksmelt, jackstays, jackstraw, jockstrap, rejackets, skipjacks, skyjacked, skyjacker, slapjacks, smokejack. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Names: Derived from | 17. Names: Company Usage 18. Cities 19. Expressions 20. Expressions: Internet | 21. Translations: Modern 22. Translations: Ancient 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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