jack

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A man.; A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man. capitalized
    — 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.
  2. The jackfruit.
    — A mock living burial of the principal performer, who is placed in a pit, which is covered with planks, on the top of which a sacrifice is performed, with a fire kindled with jack wood (Artocarpus integrifolia) and a plant called erinna.
  3. A plant of the species Mangifera caesia.
  4. A home run. slang
    — The year before ('76) Kingman had 37 jacks with only 502 PAs. Is that the limit?
  5. A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
    — jack of plate
  6. A man.; A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general. US,countable
    — 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.
  7. A man.; A sailor. colloquial
  8. A man.; A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman. slang
    — 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."
  9. A man.; A manual laborer. archaic
  10. A man.; A lumberjack. Canada,US,colloquial
  11. A man.; A sepoy. India,historical,slang
    — 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 […]
  12. A device or utensil.; 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, […]
  13. A device or utensil.; 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!
  14. A device or utensil.; a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
  15. A device or utensil.; A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck. obsolete
  16. A device or utensil.; A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
  17. A device or utensil.; 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.
  18. A device or utensil.; 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.
  19. A device or utensil.; A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting. archaic
  20. A device or utensil.; A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck-box. obsolete
  21. A device or utensil.; A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn. obsolete
  22. A device or utensil.; 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
  23. A non-tool object or thing.; A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack. historical,regional
    — Dead VVine that ſtinks of the Borrachio, ſup / From a fovvl Jack, or greaſie Maple Cup?
  24. A non-tool object or thing.; 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.
  25. A non-tool object or thing.; 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
  26. A non-tool object or thing.; A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
  27. A non-tool object or thing.; A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint. UK,archaic,historical,regional
    — To a pound of sugar put a jack of water.
  28. A non-tool object or thing.; A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign. obsolete,slang
  29. A non-tool object or thing.; A jackcrosstree. archaic,historical
  30. A non-tool object or thing.; A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
  31. A non-tool object or thing.; A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night. US
    — a heron when seeing a deer attracted by the jack
  32. A non-tool object or thing.; Money, cash. US,slang
    — 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) […].
  33. A non-tool object or thing.; A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit. Canada,US
    — [A] quart of raisin jack was divided between us with the result that tha day proper (after the night before) was spent very quietly, watered and Bromo-Seltzered, with amusing anecdotes occasionally sprouting from towelled head to towelled head.
  34. A non-tool object or thing.; Nothing, not anything, jack shit. euphemistic,slang
    — You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!
  35. A non-tool object or thing.; The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings. slang
  36. A non-tool object or thing.; A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course. slang
  37. A plant or animal.; A pike, especially when young.
  38. A plant or animal.; A male ass, especially when kept for breeding. US
  39. A plant or animal.; Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
  40. A plant or animal.; A jackrabbit. US
    — Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows. Their flesh was preferable to that of the jacks[…]"
  41. A plant or animal.; A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
  42. A plant or animal.; Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
  43. A plant or animal.; Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack. colloquial
    — 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.
  44. A plant or animal.; Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack). colloquial
    — Lifting the flap at the top of the spathe reveals our slender and round-headed friend "Jack," known better to botanists as the spadix.
  45. A plant or animal.; 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.
动词 v.
  1. To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run. slang,transitive
    — An excellent piece of work, Wayne thought, so good in fact, he wasn’t surprised when Bailey walked to the plate and on the first pitch jacked the ball far into the parking lot outside the left-field fence for a tournament winning homerun.
  2. To physically raise using a jack. transitive
    — He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads.
  3. To raise or increase. transitive
    — If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
  4. 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 […]
  5. To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone). colloquial,transitive
    — Someone jacked my car last night!
  6. To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion. intransitive
  7. To jack off, to masturbate. colloquial,vulgar
    — I don't even care about mine, I can get my shit off while jacking in the shower.
  8. To fight.
  9. To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something). informal,intransitive,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with). Australia
    — In the end, black and white were both crawling on the ground in reconciliation. Both saying that they were plain jack of each other.

词形变化

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词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English jakke, from Anglo-Norman jacke, Middle French jaque, jacque, from jacques (“peasant”), from the proper name Jacques. Compare jacquerie.
词源 2
Transferred use of the personal name Jack.
(cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10.
词源 3
From Portuguese jaca (“jackfruit”), from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka).
词源 4
Named after William Jack, the Scottish botanist who described the species.
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