jack

Etymology 1
, from, , , from , from the proper name. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
 *  (armor made up of small metal plates sewn between layers of cloth, similar to a brigandine)
 * jack of mail
 * padded jack
 * 1) * 1591, John Harington, translating Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, x. 73 (quoted in e.g. 1822, Robert Nares, A Glossary, page 186):
 * Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad, / Their horses are both swift of course and strong, / They run on horseback with a slender gad, / And like a speare, but that it is more long.

Etymology 2
Transferative use of the personal name.

Noun

 * 1) A man.
 * 2)  A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
 * 3)  A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
 * 4)  A sailor.
 * 5)  A policeman or detective;  a military policeman.
 * 6)  A manual laborer.
 * 7)  A lumberjack.
 * 8)  A sepoy.
 * 9) A device or utensil.
 * 10) A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
 * 11) 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.
 * 12)  A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
 * 13) A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
 * 14) 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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
 * 3)  A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box.
 * 4)  A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
 * 5)  A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch;  a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
 * 6) A non-tool object or thing.
 * 7)  A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
 * 8) * 1820-25,, in  (1830)
 * He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
 * 3)  A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
 * 4)  A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
 * 5)  A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
 * 6)  A jack crosstree.
 * 7)  A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
 * 8)  A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
 * 9)  Money, cash.
 * 10)  A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.
 * 11) * 1920,, letter, 14 April:
 * [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.
 * 1)   Nothing, jack shit.
 * 2)  The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
 * 3)  A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
 * 4) A plant or animal.
 * 5) A pike, especially when young.
 * 6)  A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
 * 7) Any of the marine fish in the family.
 * 8)  A jackrabbit.
 * 9) A large California rockfish, the bocaccio,.
 * , related to the mango tree.
 * 1)  Plant in the genus, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
 * 2)  Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
 * 3)   Plant of the genus, also considered synonymous to , if not then containing two species  and  for  syn. , Australian English  and  for  syn..
 * 1)  Money, cash.
 * 2)  A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.
 * 3) * 1920,, letter, 14 April:
 * [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.
 * 1)   Nothing, jack shit.
 * 2)  The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
 * 3)  A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
 * 4) A plant or animal.
 * 5) A pike, especially when young.
 * 6)  A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
 * 7) Any of the marine fish in the family.
 * 8)  A jackrabbit.
 * 9) A large California rockfish, the bocaccio,.
 * , related to the mango tree.
 * 1)  Plant in the genus, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
 * 2)  Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
 * 3)   Plant of the genus, also considered synonymous to , if not then containing two species  and  for  syn. , Australian English  and  for  syn..
 * 1)  A jackrabbit.
 * 2) A large California rockfish, the bocaccio,.
 * , related to the mango tree.
 * 1)  Plant in the genus, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
 * 2)  Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
 * 3)   Plant of the genus, also considered synonymous to , if not then containing two species  and  for  syn. , Australian English  and  for  syn..
 * 1)  Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
 * 2)   Plant of the genus, also considered synonymous to , if not then containing two species  and  for  syn. , Australian English  and  for  syn..
 * 1)  Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
 * 2)   Plant of the genus, also considered synonymous to , if not then containing two species  and  for  syn. , Australian English  and  for  syn..
 * 1)   Plant of the genus, also considered synonymous to , if not then containing two species  and  for  syn. , Australian English  and  for  syn..
 * 1)   Plant of the genus, also considered synonymous to , if not then containing two species  and  for  syn. , Australian English  and  for  syn..

Translations

 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: náłbiil bijaadbee dahnádidlohí
 * Arabic: رَافِعَة
 * Belarusian: дамкра́т
 * Bulgarian: крик
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: zvedák,
 * Danish: donkraft
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kriko
 * Estonian: tungraud
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ჯალამბარი, დომკრატი, ამწევი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ג'ק מכאני
 * Hindi: जैक
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: tjakkur
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, martinetto
 * Japanese: ジャッキ
 * Javanese: dongkrak
 * Korean: 잭
 * Latvian: domkrats
 * Luxembourgish: Autoscric
 * Malay: جيک,
 * Maltese: ġakk
 * Maori: tiaki, hikiwaka
 * Middle Low German: dumkraft
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: данхраат,
 * Navajo: chidí bee dah ńdiitʼáhí
 * Norman: lévyi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, donkraft
 * Nynorsk: jekk, donkraft
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوجرغات
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai: แม่แรงตะเข้
 * Tibetan: འདེགས་ལྕགས
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: домкра́т
 * Vietnamese: cái kích
 * Volapük:
 * Zazaki: kriko


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, , týpek
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Georgian:, , ჯეელი
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,


 * Bulgarian: мъжко животно
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:


 * Arabic:
 * Danish: hanæsel, æselhingst
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 雄驢馬, 雄ロバ
 * Kashmiri: خَر
 * Maltese: ħmar
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 插口
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: stopkontakt, ,  ,
 * Esperanto: ĵako
 * Finnish:
 * French:, prise jack,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian: presa elettrica
 * Japanese:, 差しこみ口
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: conector-fișă,, conector-pin
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 靶子球
 * Czech:, košonek
 * French:
 * German: Zielkugel
 * Hungarian: célgolyó
 * Italian:
 * Maori: hai
 * Portuguese: bolim
 * Spanish:


 * Danish: gøs
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 国籍旗, 船首旗
 * Portuguese:, jaco
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: pramčana zastava
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: гюйс


 * Bulgarian: кърмов флаг
 * Danish: orlogsflag
 * Finnish: laivastolippu


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,


 * Dhivehi: ހަނދި އާއިލާ
 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish:
 * French:, baton d’échappement
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:, saltador


 * Bulgarian: жак
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Maori: kuhunga, kōhao, kōwhao
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To physically raise using a jack.
 * 2)  To raise or increase.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4)  To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
 * 5)  To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
 * 6)  To jack off, to masturbate.
 * 7)  To fight.
 * 8)  To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
 * 1)  To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
 * 2)  To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
 * 3)  To jack off, to masturbate.
 * 4)  To fight.
 * 5)  To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
 * 1)  To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
 * 2)  To jack off, to masturbate.
 * 3)  To fight.
 * 4)  To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
 * 1)  To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).

Derived terms

 * (several meanings)

Translations

 * Bulgarian: вдигам на крик
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 用千斤顶
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: nostaa tunkilla,
 * French: mettre sur le cric
 * Italian: sollevare con il cric
 * Norwegian: (1)
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,

Adjective

 * 1)  Tired, disillusioned; fed up.

Etymology 3
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) The edible fruit of the Asian tree ; also the tree itself.
 * 2) The related tree.
 * 1) The related tree.

Noun

 * 1)  A home run.

Verb

 * 1)  To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
 * , Jim McManus, quoted in T.J. Lewis, A View from the Mound: My Father’s Life in Baseball, Lulu.com (publisher, 2008), ISBN 9781435714861, page 107:
 * Maybe he hung a curve ball to somebody and they jacked it out of the park on him and he wasn’t upset about it.
 * , Jim McManus, quoted in T.J. Lewis, A View from the Mound: My Father’s Life in Baseball, Lulu.com (publisher, 2008), ISBN 9781435714861, page 107:
 * Maybe he hung a curve ball to somebody and they jacked it out of the park on him and he wasn’t upset about it.

Translations

 * Finnish: lyödä kunnari

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  an electronic connector mounted on a surface
 * 2)   A rapist (specifically a male one)