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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.
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A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
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A powerful or influential person.
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A component of certain games.
#The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
#A playing card with the image of a king on it.
#A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
A king skin.
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A male dragonfly; a drake.
To crown king, to make (a person) king.
* 1982 , South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review , Volume 47,
* 2008 , William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (editor), Macbeth , Introduction,
To rule over as king.
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To perform the duties of a king.
* 1918 , Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman , Volume 35,
* 2001 , Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning ,
To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
* 1917 , Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself ,
To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
* 1957 , Bertram Vivian Bowden (editor), Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines ,
* 1986 , Rick DeMarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry ,
To dress and perform as a drag king.
* 2008 , Audrey Yue, King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia'', in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland (editors), ''AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities ,
Jack is a coordinate term of king.
As nouns the difference between jack and king
is that jack is a mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object or jack can be a coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather or jack can be a jackfruit tree while king is a male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy if it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation or king can be (chinese musical instrument).As verbs the difference between jack and king
is that jack is to use a jack or jack can be (transitive|slang|baseball) to hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run while king is to crown king, to make (a person) king.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.
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.
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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(wikipedia king)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic), (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.}}
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Coordinate terms
* (monarch) emperor, empress, maharajah, prince, princess, queen, regent, royalty, viceroy * (playing card) ace, jack, joker, queenDerived terms
* dragonking * King Billy * king cake * king of the hill * kingdom * kingly * kingmaker * kingmanship * King's English * king's ransom * Kingston * priest-kingSee also
* *Verb
(en verb)page 16,
- The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play .
page 24,
- One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.
- And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d , / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.
page 675,
- He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
page 6,
- Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.
page 32,
- The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.
page 302,
- If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.
page 100,
- I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged , but I slid my checker back.
page 266,
- Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.