jacket

Meanings

Plural: jackets

Noun

• a short coat
• an outer wrapping or casing
  • "phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets"
• (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
• the outer skin of a potato
• the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
• A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
• A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
• A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
• A police record.
• In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
• The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
• A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
• A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).

Verb

• provide with a thermally non-conducting cover
  • "The tubing needs to be jacketed"
• put a jacket on
  • "The men were jacketed"
• To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
• To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

Synonyms

cap, coat, crown, crownwork, jacket crown, sleeve, straitjacket