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Another word for jack

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Noun

  1. A person engaged in sailing or working on a ship.

      1. A sailor; seaman
      2. One who navigates or assists in navigating a ship.
      3. (Baseball) A player on the team the Seattle Mariners.
      1. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile
      2. A person who navigates; esp., one skilled or employed in plotting the course for a ship or aircraft
      3. A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft
      1. A person who makes a living by sailing; mariner; seaman
      2. A straw hat with a low, flat crown and flat brim
      3. One who travels by water.
      1. (Nautical) A very experienced sailor.
      2. Any of various seals
      3. A seal or a similar marine mammal.
      1. A traveler by sea; esp., a sailor
      2. One who travels by sea.
      3. A person who travels by sea.
      1. A mariner or sailor.
      2. One who holds the rank of seaman, seaman apprentice, or seaman recruit.
      3. (U.S. Navy) An enlisted person ranking below a petty officer third class, whose general duties involve most ships' equipment other than boilers and engines
      1. A colorless or white crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative.
      2. Epsom salts.
      3. Any of various mineral salts, such as magnesium sulfate, sodium sulfate, or potassium sodium tartrate, used as laxatives or cathartics.
      1. (Loosely) Any of the solids in smoke, as from tobacco
      2. A thick, sticky, brown to black liquid with a pungent odor, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood, coal, peat, shale, etc.: tars are composed of hydrocarbons and their derivatives, and are used for protecting and preserving surfaces, in making various organic compounds, etc.
      3. A solid residue of tobacco smoke containing byproducts of combustion.
      1. (Informal) A large quantity or amount
      2. A small mass or lump.
      3. Waste material produced in coal mining, consisting of clay, shale, etc.
    See also:

    sea

  2. Fabric used especially as a symbol

      1. A representation of a ribbon or scroll bearing an inscription.
      2. A little banner, flag, or streamer.
      3. A narrow flag or pennant, esp. one attached to a lance or carried at the masthead of a ship
      1. A piece of cloth bearing a motto or legend, as of a club.
      2. (Internet, television) A type of advertisement in a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content. Contrast popup, interstitial.
      3. A piece of cloth bearing a design, motto, slogan, etc., sometimes attached to a staff and used as a battle standard
      1. (Military, historical) A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
      2. A noble, knighted feudal lord who has the right to lead his vassals to battle under his own banner
      3. A feudal knight ranking between a knight bachelor and a baron, who was entitled to lead men into battle under his own standard.
      1. Local color.
      2. Any color other than black, white, or gray; chromatic color: color is distinguished by the qualities of hue (as red, brown, yellow, etc.), lightness (for pigmented surfaces) or brightness (for light itself), and saturation (the degree of intensity of a hue)
      3. Appearance of authenticity:
      1. A standard or banner, as of a military unit.
      2. A flag or banner; specif., a national flag, as one displayed on a ship
      3. A national flag displayed on ships and aircraft, often with the special insignia of a branch or unit of the armed forces.
      1. A strip of cloth worn by players in : a person carrying the ball is considered down when an opponent snatches his or her flag
      2. Any of various wild irises with flat fans of sword-shaped leaves and white, blue, or yellow flowers
      3. A piece of cloth, usually rectangular, of distinctive color and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, or emblem.
      1. The red or orange-red flag of the Abbey of Saint Denis in France, used as a standard by the early kings of France.
      2. The ancient royal standard of France, a red silk banner with flame-shaped streamers
      3. An inspiring standard or symbol.
      1. (Sports) A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.
      2. (Nautical) A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.
      3. A flag or an emblem similar in shape to a ship's pennant.
      1. A thin triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
      2. A pennant, banner, or flag.
      3. A long, narrow, triangular or swallow-tailed flag borne on a lance as an ensign, as formerly by knights and lancers
      1. Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
      2. The proportion of pure gold or silver and base metal prescribed for use in coinage
      3. (--- Mil.) The colors of a cavalry unit
      1. A long narrow strip of material used for ornament or decoration.
      2. Any long, narrow strip of cloth, colored paper, ribbon, etc., hanging loose at one end
      3. A column of light shooting across the sky in the aurora borealis.
    See also:

    substitute

  3. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange

    See also:

    money

Verb

  1. To increase in amount.

    See also:

    increase

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Another word for jack

Noun

  1. An instrument for elevating

    See also:

    device

    tool

  2. The male of certain animals

      1. Casual oxford shoes, originally of buckskin, now usually of light-colored suede, nubuck, etc.
      2. (Games) A counter or marker formerly passed from one poker player to another to indicate an obligation, especially one's turn to deal.
      3. Antelope considered as a group:
      1. A small, buttonlike device with a smaller button or shank on the back, inserted in a shirt front as an ornament or fastener
      2. One of a number of small metal cleats embedded in a snow tire to increase traction on slippery or snowy roads.
      3. (Short for) stud poker
      1. An animal, especially a pig, castrated after reaching sexual maturity.
      2. The adult male of various deer, especially the red deer.
      3. A person who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a partner, especially a man who is unaccompanied by a woman.
    See also:

    animal

    bull

Idioms:

    every-man-jack

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Sentence Examples

  • "No, Jack," Dan said.

  • I packed enough food for Jack for three days.

  • She rose, anxious to be on her way but grateful to take Jack with her.

  • Jack sat beside her.

  • Jack waited for her by the door, and she tucked the weapon Mrs. Watson gave her into one cargo pocket.

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