different between sailor vs bluejacket

English

Alternative forms

• sailour (obsolete)

Etymology

Alteration of earlier sailer, from Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail +? -or. Cognate with German Segler (“sailor”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English marinel, marynell (“sailor”) borrowed from Old French marinel (“sailor”). See mariner.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?se?l?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?se?l?/
• Hyphenation: sail?or
• Rhymes: -e?l?(?)

Noun

sailor (plural sailors)

1. A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels
2. Someone knowledgeable in the practical management of ships.

3. A member of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
4. A person who sails sailing boats as a sport or recreation.

   Coordinate term: yachtsman

5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sailor

Derived terms

• mouth of a sailor
• sailoress
• sailor-fish

Translations

See also

• sailor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lascar

Anagrams

• Lorias, Losari, Solari

English

Etymology

blue +? jacket

Noun

bluejacket (plural bluejackets)

1. (nautical) A seaman of a British warship
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13, [1]

     It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 4,^[2]

     ‘ […] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […] ’

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Regatta,”^[3]

     The Navy and the Indian tribes up and down the Coast took part in the races, the Navy rowing their heavy ship's boats round from Esquimalt Harbour, manned by blue-jackets, while smart little pinnaces “pip-pipped” along commanded by young midshipmen.

2. (nautical) An enlisted man in the US Navy.
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   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.

Synonyms

• sailor