Jack vs Tack - 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
A small nail with a flat head.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
A thumbtack.
(sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
(nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
(nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind. See also reach, gybe.
A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 637:
(nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
(nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
(nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals. Saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, harnesses, martingales, and breastplates are all forms of horse tack .
(manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
Hardtack.
* 1913 , D. H. Lawrence, "Sons and Lovers":
That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
* Bishop Burnet
(legal, Scotland) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
(obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
To sew/stich with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
(nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
To add something as an extra item.
Often paired with "up", to place the tack on a horse.
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 noun jack
is (informal) a placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man.As an adjective tack is
pretty, beautiful.As a verb tack is
.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 [...].
- (Dryden)
- (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
Etymology 1
From , probably from a (etyl) source.Noun
(en noun)Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- A tough test for even the strongest climber, it was new to the Tour de France this year, but its debut will be remembered for the wrong reasons after one of those spectators scattered carpet tacks on the road and induced around 30 punctures among the group of riders including Bradley Wiggins, the Tour's overall leader, and his chief rivals.
- I thought that my refusing Barnard would alienate Botha, and decided that such a tack was too risky.
- The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.
- "But if a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack , and a donkey would die of it!"
- Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time.
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- (Burrill)
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* (nautical maneuver) coming aboutHyponyms
* (nail-like object for affixing thin things) thumbtackDerived terms
* Blu-Tack * hardtack * thumbtackVerb
(en verb)- to tack (something) onto (something)