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Overcoat vs Jacket - What's the difference?

overcoat | jacket |

In transitive terms the difference between overcoat and jacket

is that overcoat is to apply an exterior coating to while jacket is to enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

overcoat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats , nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , chapter=5, title= The China Governess , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}

    See also

    * balmacaan * raglan

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply an exterior coating to.
  • * 2004 , James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications (page 128)
    • One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.

    Anagrams

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    jacket

    English

    (wikipedia jacket)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1995 , , 00:26:00:
    • "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."
  • * 1995 , , 00:43:50:
    • "Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years."
  • (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

    • Synonyms

    * (sense, piece of a person's suit) coat (US ) * (removable protective cover) sleeve

    Derived terms

    * bedjacket * bookjacket * donkey jacket * dust jacket * flak jacket * jacket potato * leatherjacket * life jacket * Nehru jacket * smoking jacket

    Descendants

    * Irish: * Japanese: * Korean: * Mandarin: * Scottish Gaelic: (l) * Welsh: (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
  • * 1897 , Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, 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.