Jacket vs Roundabout - What's the difference?
jacket | roundabout |
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 removable or replaceable protective or insulating cover for an object (eg a book, hot water tank.)
(slang) A police record.
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(military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
* 1897 , Alexander James Wallis-Tayler,
Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
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* 1921 , , Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 17:
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* 2011 , Golgotha Press (ed.), 50 Classic Philosophy Books , ISBN 9781610425957,
Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
* 1706 , , Of the Conduct of the Understanding , item 3.3:
(chiefly, UK, New Zealand, and, Australia) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
(chiefly, British) A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed.
A fairground carousel.
A detour
A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
As nouns the difference between jacket and roundabout
is that jacket is a piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length while roundabout is a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.As a verb jacket
is to enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.As an adjective roundabout is
indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.jacket
English
(wikipedia jacket)Noun
(en noun)- "We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. With my jacket , I can't go back to jail."
- "Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years."
Derived terms
* bedjacket * bookjacket * donkey jacket * dust jacket * flak jacket * jacket potato * leatherjacket * life jacket * Nehru jacket * smoking jacketDescendants
* Irish: * Japanese: * Korean: * Mandarin: * Scottish Gaelic: (l) * Welsh: (l)Verb
(en verb)Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads
- ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.
roundabout
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- [S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.
- "Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."
Rather Reports Another War," New York Times (retrieved 3 April 2014):
- Mr. Rather flew to the area in a roundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.
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- Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious roundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.
- The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.
