Jack vs Amber - What's the difference?
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A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack, hydraulic jack, ratchet jack, scaffold jack.
A man or men in general.
A male animal.
A male ass.
(card games) The card ranking between the (ten) and (queen) of any suit, picturing a knave or prince on its face. In some card games has a value of eleven based on its rank, but in many card games has a value of ten like the ten'', ''queen'', and (king) cards. Also called a ''knave .
(archaic) A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man).
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, related to the mango tree.
A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment.
(sports) A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball.
* (rfdate), Sir (Walter Scott)
(games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
(colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
(nautical) A small flag at the bow of a ship.
(nautical) A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially) British sailing warships; Union Jack.
(military) A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather.
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A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language , second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243.)
(slang) Money.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, page 133:
(slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
A common name for the freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel.
A large California rockfish.
Any marine fish or the species of the Carangidae family.
(obsolete, nautical) A sailor; a "jack tar".
(obsolete) A pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A drinking measure holding half a pint or, sometimes, a quarter of a pint.
A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine.
# A device to pull off boots.
# A sawhorse or sawbuck.
# A machine for turning a spit; a smokejack.
# (mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
# A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine.
# A grating to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box.
# A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
# A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
# A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
# A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
# A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
# In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; also called hopper.
# In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
# (nautical) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; also called jack crosstree.
Female ended electrical connector (see )
Electrical connector in a fixed position (see )
To use a jack.
To raise or increase.
(colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Contraction of carjacking
To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
(transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
* 1986 , in Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature , Volume 4, Sport Literature Association:
* 2004 , Wayne Stewart, Hitting Secrets of the Pros: Big League Sluggers Reveal the Tricks of Their Trade , McGraw-Hill Professional, ISBN 9780071418249,
* Jim McManus, quoted in T.J. Lewis, A View from the Mound: My Father’s Life in Baseball , Lulu.com (publisher, 2008), ISBN 9781435714861,
A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
* Sir J. Harrington
(obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
* 1526 , The Grete Herball :
* 1579 , The Booke of Simples'', fol. 56 (contained in ''Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sicknesse, Soarnesse, and Woundes ):
* 1600 , John Pory (translator), A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344:
* 1717 , (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu), letter, 18 Apr 1717:
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, , appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
* 1594 — Shakespeare,
* 1594 — Shakespeare,
* 1637', ''Monro, his expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keys Regiment)'', republished in ' 1999 (ISBN 0275962679), page 102:
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A brownish yellow colour.
(British) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
* 1974 , Traffic Planning and Engineering , page 366:
* 2000 , in the Journal of Traffic Engineering & Control , volume 41, page 201:
* 2004 January 14, "AZGuy" (username), "Turn Signal Research shows amber no more effective then red", in rec.autos.driving, Usenet :
(biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
* 2007 , Molecular Genetics of Bacteria , edition 3, page 333:
* 2007 , Jonathan C. Kuhn, Detection of Salmonella by Bacteriophage Felix 01'', in ''Salmonella: Methods and Protocols , pages 27–28:
Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
* 2006 , Jeffrey Archer, False Impression , page 270:
* 2008 , Elizabeth Amber, Raine: The Lords of Satyr , page 211:
(rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
(rare) To preserve in amber.
(transitive, rare, chiefly, poetic, or, literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
* 1885 , America the Beautiful ;
* 2007 , Phil Rickman, Fabric of Sin: A Merrily Watkins Mystery ;
* 2008 , Jeri Westerson, Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir :
(intransitive, rare, chiefly, poetic, or, literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.
* 2009 , Jack Wennerstrom, Black Coffee , page 19:
* 2011 , Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides :
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In obsolete terms the difference between jack and amber
is that jack is a pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack while amber is ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.As nouns the difference between jack and amber
is that jack is a mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack, hydraulic jack, ratchet jack, scaffold jack while amber is ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.As verbs the difference between jack and amber
is that jack is to use a jack while amber is to perfume or flavour with ambergris.As proper nouns the difference between jack and amber
is that jack is a given name derived from Hebrew, also used as a pet form of John while Amber is {{given name|female|from=English|}}, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.As an adjective amber is
of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.jack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from the name Jack, from (etyl) JacquesNoun
(en noun)- She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.
- Every man jack .
- telephone jack
- like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it
- You haven't done jack . Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!
- 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 [...].
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- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* (playing card) knave * (male ass) jackassDerived terms
* bicolor jack * blackfin jack * bootjack * cheap-jack * cottonmouth jack * Crevalle jack * green jack * horse-eye jack * jackanapes * jack-o'-lantern * jack of all trades * jack over * jack plug * jack rabbit * one-eyed jack * Senegal jack * trolley jack * whitetongue jack * Union Jack * yellowfin jackSee also
*Verb
(en verb)- He jacked the car up so that he could replace the brake pads.
- If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
- Someone jacked my car last night!
Derived terms
* jack up (several meanings) * jack offEtymology 2
(en)Verb
(en verb)- 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.
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- Therefore, even though Vizquel is certainly not a power hitter, at times he will try to jack the ball, perhaps pulling it with just enough oomph to carry down the line for a homer.
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- 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.
Derived terms
* jack in * jack it in * jack offEtymology 3
(etyl) jaque, jacque, perhaps from the proper name Jacques. Compare jacquerie.Noun
(en noun)- Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad.
Etymology 4
References
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English
(wikipedia amber)Noun
- Ambre is hote and drye Some say that it is the sparme of a whale.
- As for Amber Grice, or Amber Cane, which ist most sweet myngled with other sweete thynges: some say it commeth from the rocks of the Sea. Some say it is gotten by a fish called Azelum , which feedeth upon Amber Grece, and dyeth, which is taken by cunnyng fishers and the belly opened, and this precious Amber found in hym.
- The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorth Amber'; but whether the said ' Amber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine.
- Slaves perfum'd the air with Amber , Aloes wood, and other Scents.
The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene III :
- With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
- With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
Hamlet, Act II, Scene II :
- Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of wit.
- To shew this by example, we reade of Sabina Poppcea, to whom nothing was wanting , but shame and honestie, being extremely beloved of Nero, had the colour of her haire yellow, like Amber , which Nero esteemed much of, .
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- While earlier controllers provided concurrent ambers , present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.
- Also flashing ambers are not operational at this type of crossing.
- >Problem: Red-red signals are too time consuming when traffic density is higher.
- I don't find them time consuming at all. I find them identical to ambers .
- an amber codon'', ''an amber mutation'', ''an amber suppressor
- For example, to cross a temperature-sensitive mutation with an amber' mutation, ' amber suppressor cells are infected at the low (permissive) temperature.
- Double ambers revert at 10-8-10-9, and therefore, reversion is negligible. Double-amber mutants are made by crossing single-amber mutants with each other.
Synonyms
* (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights) yellow (US) * ambergrisAntonyms
* (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights) red, greenDerived terms
* Amber * ambeer * ambered * amber fluid * amber gambler * ambering * amberjack * amber liquid * amber nectar * amberoidAdjective
(en adjective)- They all moved safely through the first green and then the second, but when the third light turned amber Jack's taxi was the last to cross the intersection.
- Ahead, a cool breeze swept the pale morning sun across a grassy meadow turned amber by morning's frost.
Verb
(en verb)- ambered''' wine'', ''an '''ambered room
- an ambered fly
- For purple mountains majesty; for amber waves of grain .
- Home to the mosaic of coloured-lit windows in the black and white houses, the fake gas lamps ambering the cobbles, sometimes the scent of applewood smoke.
- The firelight flickered on her rounded cheeks, ambering the pale skin.
- Westward along Lancaster Avenue, among the stone walls and broad driveways of imposing old houses—their lawns dappled with the shade of ambering maples and dusty, bark-peeled sycamores—
- [T]hough many of the pirates protested against these energetic activities[,] he was only pleasantly tired when the lowering, ambering sun began to bounce needles of gold glare off the waves ahead;
