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Jacketed vs Racketed - What's the difference?

jacketed | racketed |

As verbs the difference between jacketed and racketed

is that jacketed is (jacket) while racketed is (racket).

As an adjective jacketed

is encased or enclosed inside a jacket.

jacketed

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Encased or enclosed inside a jacket.
  • * 1861: United States War Dept, Annual Reports
    • One of the advantages of a matrix would be to reduce the cost of our shrapnel by enabling hardened lead balls and round cases to be used in place of the steel-jacketed balls and hexagonal cases...
  • * 1920: Edward J. Martin, The Traffic Library: Principles of Classification
    • The metal can completely jacketed must have iron, steel or wooden jacket completely covering the can, except the mouth.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (jacket)

    • racketed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (racket)

    • racket

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (sporting implement) racquet

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) raket

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
    • , passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
  • (label) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
  • A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
    • Synonyms
    * (implement) bat, paddle, racquet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
  • * Hewyt
    • Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud noise.
    • Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket .
    With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!
    What's all this racket ?
  • A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
    • They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.
  • (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
    • Synonyms
    * (loud noise) din, noise, ruckus * (fraud) con, fraud, scam, swindle
    Derived terms
    * racketeer, racketeering

    Anagrams

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    References

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