Jack vs Fruit - 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.
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(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
(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
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* Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
* Macaulay
Offspring from a sexual union.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
As nouns the difference between jack and fruit
is that jack is (informal) a placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man while fruit is (botany) the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.As a proper noun jack
is , also used as a pet form of john or jack can be (slang) jack daniel's, a brand of american whiskey.As a verb fruit is
to produce fruit.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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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 fruit)Noun
(see for discussion of plural )- While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown
