different between wrapper vs jacket

English

Etymology

From Middle English wrappere, equivalent to wrap +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æp?/
• Homophone: rapper
• Hyphenation: wrap?per
• Rhymes: -æp?(r)

Noun

wrapper (plural wrappers)

1. Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping.
2. An outer garment; a loose robe or dressing gown.
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:

     ‘Please to examine, at your leisure, the inner linings of the cuff of his left sleeve, and the several little packages which may be found in the somewhat capacious pockets of his embroidered morning wrapper.’

   • 1855, Charles Dickens, The Holly-Tree

     It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.

3. One who, or that which, wraps.

   He proved to be a remarkably efficient wrapper of parcels.

4. (object-oriented programming) A construct, such as a class or module, that serves to mediate access to another.

   We need a Perl wrapper for this C++ library.

Usage notes

• In the computing sense, wrapper is often used attributively: one can speak of a “wrapper class”, a “wrapper object”, a “wrapper function”, and so on. More broadly, one can speak of the “wrapper pattern”, which is a general term for the creation and use of such wrappers.

Synonyms

• (construct that mediates access): adapter
• wrapper class
• primitive wrapper class

Translations

Descendants

• ? Mmen: lapa

Anagrams

• prewrap

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