Jacket vs. Jumper

Jacketnoun

A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.

Jacketnoun

A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat US

Jacketnoun

A removable or replaceable protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank.)

Jacketnoun

(slang) A police record.

Jacketnoun

(military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

Jacketnoun

The tough outer skin of a baked potato.

Jacketverb

(transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

Jacketnoun

A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.

Jacketnoun

An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.

Jacketnoun

In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reënforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

Jacketnoun

A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; - called also cork jacket.

Jacketverb

To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.

Jacketverb

To thrash; to beat.

Jacketnoun

a short coat

Jacketnoun

an outer wrapping or casing;

Jacketnoun

(dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth

Jacketnoun

the outer skin of a potato

Jacketnoun

the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition

Jacketverb

provide with a thermally non-conducting cover;

Jacketverb

put a jacket on;

Jacket

A jacket is a garment for the upper body, usually extending below the hips. A jacket typically has sleeves, and fastens in the front or slightly on the side.

Jumpernoun

Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.

Jumpernoun

A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.

Jumpernoun

A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.

Jumpernoun

A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.

Jumpernoun

A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.

Jumpernoun

(US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.

Jumpernoun

A jumping spider

Jumpernoun

The larva of the cheese fly.

Jumpernoun

One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

Jumpernoun

(horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

Jumpernoun

(basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.

Jumpernoun

A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.

Jumpernoun

A woolen sweater or pullover.

Jumpernoun

A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.

Jumpernoun

A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children.

Jumpernoun

(usually as jumpers) Rompers.

Jumperverb

To connect with an electrical jumper.

Jumpernoun

One who, or that which, jumps.

Jumpernoun

A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.

Jumpernoun

A rude kind of sleigh; - usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.

Jumpernoun

The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

Jumpernoun

A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

Jumpernoun

spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

Jumpernoun

A loose upper garment

Jumpernoun

A sleeveless one-piece dress, either with full shoulders or straps, sometimes with only the front part of the bodice, usually worn by women with a blouse underneath.

Jumpernoun

A thing that jumps; esp., any of various tools or other contrivances operating with a jumping motion;

Jumpernoun

a short wire, or a small plastic object containing such a short wire, used to optionally connect or disconnect two points in an electronic circuit, so as to include or exclude portions of the circuit and thus modify the function of the circuit. Such jumpers are much used to adapt add-on circuit boards for different conditions or functions within a computer.

Jumperverb

to insert a jumper{2} between the two contacts in (a circuit). See 2nd jumper.

Jumpernoun

an athlete who competes at jumping

Jumpernoun

an athlete who bounds or leaps (as in basketball)

Jumpernoun

a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections

Jumpernoun

a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen

Jumpernoun

a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing

Jumpernoun

a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump