English Dictionary

jack

/d͡ʒæk/

noun

(chiefly capitalized) A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man. / (countable, now chiefly US) A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general. / (colloquial) A sailor.

Jack is my best friend.

意味（1）

(chiefly capitalized) 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.

意味（2）

(countable, now chiefly US) A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.

You have showed a tender fatherly regard / To wish me wed to one half-lunatic, / A madcap ruffian and a swearing Jack […].

意味（3）

(colloquial) A sailor.

意味（4）

(slang) 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.

意味（5）

(now rare) A manual laborer.

意味（6）

(Canada, US, colloquial) A lumberjack.

意味（7）

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 […].

意味（8）

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,

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!

意味（9）

(obsolete) A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.

意味（10）

A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.

意味（11）

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.

意味（12）

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.

意味（13）

(mining, now rare) A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.

意味（14）

(obsolete) A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box.

意味（15）

(obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.

意味（16）

(electronics) 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

意味（17）

(now historical, regional) 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?

意味（18）

(card games, originally colloquial) 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.

意味（19）

(bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.

like an uninstructed bowler, so to speak, who thinks to attain the jack, by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it

意味（20）

(nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.

意味（21）

(UK, regional, now rare, historical) A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.

To a pound of sugar put a jack of water.

意味（22）

(obsolete, slang) A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.

意味（23）

(nautical, now rare, historical) A jack crosstree.

意味（24）

(games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.

意味（25）

(US) A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.

a heron when seeing a deer attracted by the jack

意味（26）

(slang, chiefly US) Money.

First off Regan carried fifteen grand, packed it in his clothes all the time. Real money, they tell me. Not just a top card and a bunch of hay. That's a lot of jack (or jack-shit) […] .

意味（27）

(colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.

You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!

意味（28）

(cricket, slang) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.

意味（29）

(slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.

意味（30）

A pike, especially when young.

意味（31）

(chiefly US) A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.

意味（32）

Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.

意味（33）

(US) A jackrabbit.

Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows. Their flesh was preferable to that of the jacks[…]"

意味（34）

A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.

意味（35）

Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.

意味（36）

(colloquial) Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.

Usually a jack that makes male flowers has only one main leaf (right), while female plants have two. […] The specific taxonomy of Jack-in-the Pulpit, a member of the Arum Family (Araceae), is rather up in the air. Some botanists believe all jacks are just one species, Arisaema triphyllum, while others claim there are as many as three: A. triphyllum, A. atrorubens, and A. stewardsonii.

意味（37）

(colloquial) Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).

Lifting the flap at the top of the spathe reveals our slender and round-headed friend Jack, known better to botanists as the spadix.

意味（38）

(apparently does not occur standalone for the genus per se) Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.