Jacket vs Mantle - What's the difference?
jacket | mantle |
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,
A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)
(zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
* 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):
(zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
A penstock for a water wheel.
(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
A fireplace shelf;
(heraldry) A mantling.
To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
To become covered or concealed.
(of face, cheeks) To flush.
* 1913 ,
As a noun jacket
is a piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.As a verb jacket
is to enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.As a proper noun mantle is
.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.
mantle
English
(wikipedia mantle)Noun
(en noun)- At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
- The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
- the green mantle of the standing pool
- Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.
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Derived terms
* assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantleVerb
(mantl)- (Shakespeare)
- The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.