Dictionary entry details
• JACK (noun)
Meaning:
A small worthless amount
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
jack; doodly-squat; diddlysquat; diddlyshit; diddly-squat; diddly-shit; diddly; diddley; squat; shit
Context example:
you don't know jack
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
small indefinite amount; small indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude)
Meaning:
A man who serves as a sailor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
seaman; seafarer; sea dog; old salt; mariner; Jack-tar; gob; Jack; tar
Hypernyms ("Jack" is a kind of...):
crewman; sailor (any member of a ship's crew)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Jack"):
sea lawyer (an argumentative and contentious seaman)
pilot (a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor)
officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)
bargee; bargeman; lighterman (someone who operates a barge)
helmsman; steerer; steersman (the person who steers a ship)
deckhand; roustabout (a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor)
bo's'n; bo'sun; boatswain; bos'n; bosun (a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen)
able seaman; able-bodied seaman (a seaman in the merchant navy; trained in special skills)
whaler (a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales)
Meaning:
Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
laborer; labourer; manual laborer; jack
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jack"):
yardman (a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns))
platelayer; tracklayer (a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks)
porter (a person employed to carry luggage and supplies)
rail-splitter; splitter (a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences)
sawyer (one who is employed to saw wood)
section hand (a laborer assigned to a section gang)
sprayer (a worker who applies spray to a surface)
stacker (a laborer who builds up a stack or pile)
steeplejack (someone who builds or maintains very tall structures)
dock worker; dock-walloper; docker; dockhand; dockworker; loader; longshoreman; lumper; stevedore (a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port)
fireman; stoker (a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship))
woodcutter (cuts down trees and chops wood as a job)
wrecker (someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job)
mule driver; mule skinner; muleteer; skinner (a worker who drives mules)
miner; mineworker (laborer who works in a mine)
faller; feller; logger; lumberjack; lumberman (a person who fells trees)
agricultural laborer; agricultural labourer (a person who tills the soil for a living)
bracero (a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II)
cleaner (someone whose occupation is cleaning)
day laborer; day labourer (a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages)
digger (a laborer who digs)
dishwasher (someone who washes dishes)
drudge; galley slave; navvy; peon (a laborer who is obliged to do menial work)
gandy dancer (a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang)
gipsy; gypsy; itinerant (a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment)
hod carrier; hodman (a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers)
hand; hired hand; hired man (a hired laborer on a farm or ranch)
hewer (a person who hews)
gravedigger (a person who earns a living by digging graves)
Meaning:
Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
jak; jackfruit; jack
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("jack" is a part of...):
Artocarpus heterophyllus; jackfruit; jackfruit tree (East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds)
Meaning:
A small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
ball (round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games)
Holonyms ("jack" is a part of...):
bowls; lawn bowling (a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack)
Meaning:
An electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
electrical device (a device that produces or is powered by electricity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jack"):
phone jack; telephone jack (a jack for plugging in a telephone)
Meaning:
Game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
jackstones; jack
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
game equipment (equipment or apparatus used in playing a game)
Meaning:
Small flag indicating a ship's nationality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)
Meaning:
One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
knave; jack
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
court card; face card; picture card (one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face)
Meaning:
Tool for exerting pressure or lifting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
tool (an implement used in the practice of a vocation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jack"):
bumper jack (a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper)
jackscrew; screw jack (screw-operated jack)
Meaning:
Any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
carangid; carangid fish (a percoid fish of the family Carangidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jack"):
Alectis ciliaris; thread-fish; threadfish (fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins)
kingfish; Seriola grandis (large game fish of Australia and New Zealand)
banded rudderfish; rudderfish; Seriola zonata (fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters)
Seriola dorsalis; yellowtail (game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin)
amberfish; amberjack (any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes)
leatherjack; leatherjacket (any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales)
Elagatis bipinnulata; rainbow runner (streamlined cigar-shaped jack; good game fish)
blue runner; Caranx crysos; runner (fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil)
Caranx bartholomaei; yellow jack; Caranx hippos; crevalle jack; jack crevalle (fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico)
Holonyms ("jack" is a member of...):
Carangidae; family Carangidae (large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas)
Meaning:
Male donkey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
jackass; jack
Hypernyms ("jack" is a kind of...):
ass (hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse)
• JACK (verb)
Meaning:
Lift with a special device
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
jack; jack up
Context example:
jack up the car so you can change the tire
Hypernyms (to "jack" is one way to...):
bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Hunt with a jacklight
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
jacklight; jack
Hypernyms (to "jack" is one way to...):
hunt; hunt down; run; track down (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
