different between jacket vs jacketed

English

Etymology

From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??æk.?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??æk?t/, /?d??æk?t/
• Rhymes: -æk?t
• Hyphenation: jack?et

Noun

jacket (plural jackets)

1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
2. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
3. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
4. (slang) A police record.
   • 2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00:

     "I need to look up somebody's jacket."

5. (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
6. The tough outer skin of a baked potato.

   Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

Synonyms

• (piece of a person's suit): coat (US)
• (removable protective cover): sleeve

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing, simple past and past participle jacketed)

1. (transitive) 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.

Derived terms

• bad-jacket
• snitch-jacket

English

Adjective

jacketed

1. Dressed in a jacket (of a specified kind).
   • 1780, Kane O’Hara, “Address to the audience by Punch, on the opening of the Microcosm” in Songs in the Comic Opera of Tom Thumb the Great, Dublin: Arthur Grueber, p. iv,^[1]

     For if a peer come like a porter jacketed,

     Retire he must:—tho’ up he raise his back at it,

   • 1895, Bret Harte, “A Convert of the Mission” first published in Boston Transcript, 10 December, 1895,^[2]

     From the velvet-jacketed figures lounging motionless in the shadows of the open doorways—so motionless that only the lazy drift of cigarette smoke betokened their breathing—to the reclining peons in the shade of a catalpa, or the squatting Indians in the arroyo—all was sloth and dirt.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 5,

     The residence of the British Council representative was in a quieter and perhaps more patrician part of Lija than my own. Geoffrey, sitting tied and jacketed next to Ali, who was driving, pointed this out […]

2. Encased or enclosed inside a jacket (of a specified kind).
   • 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.

   • 1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Chapter 10,^[3]

     Much of the time, when no customers came, he spent reading the yellow-jacketed trash that the library contained. Books of that type you could read at the rate of one an hour.

Verb

jacketed

1. simple past tense and past participle of jacket