jacket

Etymology
From, diminutive of.

Noun

 * 1) A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
 * 2) A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat
 * 3) A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
 * 4)  A police record.
 * 5) * 2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00:
 * "I need to look up somebody's jacket."
 * 1)  In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
 * 2) The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
 * Cook the potatoes in their jackets.
 * 1)  A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
 * 2)  A vest; a waistcoat
 * 1)  A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
 * 2)  A vest; a waistcoat

Synonyms

 * (US)

Descendants

 * Chinese:

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ጃኬት
 * Arabic: جَاكِيت, سُتْرَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: جاكتّة
 * Hijazi Arabic: جكِيت
 * Moroccan Arabic: جاكيطة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: chaqueta, xaqueta
 * Belarusian: ку́ртка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏌᎴᎾ
 * Chichewa: jekete, batchi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cimbrian: rokh
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, : jaketo, ĵaketo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: jakki
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ქურთუკი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: जैकेट
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Schakett
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: seaicéad, casóg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: күртке
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 재킷
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: چاکەت
 * Lao: ເສື້ອໃຫຍ່
 * Latin: amiculum
 * Latvian: jaka
 * Luhya: kumuchosi
 * Macedonian: јакна, палто, сако́
 * Maltese: ġaketta
 * Maori: tiakete
 * Mi'kmaq: 'Mtokwon
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, , куртка
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: jakke
 * Occitan: jaqueta
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Waums, Jak
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: jaicket
 * Scottish Gaelic: seacaid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ја̀кна
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: jakna, suknjič
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: jaka, kemzol
 * Upper Sorbian: jaka
 * Spanish:, ,  ,  ,  ,  chamarra,  ,  chumpa,  ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:, เสื้อนอก
 * Tibetan: རྗ་ཀེ་ཊེ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, дже́кет
 * Urdu: جیکٹ
 * Vietnamese: áo vét tông
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: רעקל


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, jaket
 * Belarusian: пінжа́к
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: jaketo
 * Estonian: pintsak
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: პიჯაკი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: giacchetta
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: пенжек
 * Korean: 재킷
 * Kyrgyz: пиджак
 * Latvian: svārki, žakete
 * Lithuanian: švarkas
 * Macedonian: палто, сако́
 * Maltese: ġlekk
 * Maori: tiakete
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: пиджак
 * Mongolian: ᠫᠢᠳ᠋ᠵᠠᠻ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: jakke
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: са̀ко̄
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:, sako, žaket
 * Slovene: suknjič
 * Spanish:, ,  ,  ,  paltó
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: пиҷак
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: penjek
 * Ukrainian: піджа́к
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese: áo tây, áo vét


 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: jaketo
 * Finnish: ;
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Irish: cásáil
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: обвивка, облога
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: for a book,, ,  for a machine,  for hot water tank, ,
 * Tagalog: pabalat


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Italian:
 * Rwanda-Rundi:
 * Kinyarwanda:

Verb

 * 1) To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
 * 2)  To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
 * 1)  To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

Translations

 * Irish: cumhdaigh