jack
Noun
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A small worthless amount (synset 113795187)
"you don't know jack"is a type of: small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitudesame as: diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, shit, squat
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A man who serves as a sailor (synset 110314263)
subtypes:
- able seaman, able-bodied seaman - a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills
- bo's'n, bo'sun, boatswain, bos'n, bosun - a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen
- deckhand, roustabout - a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
- helmsman, steerer, steersman - the person who steers a ship
- bargee, bargeman, lighterman - someone who operates a barge
- officer, ship's officer - a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel
- pilot - a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
- sea lawyer - an argumentative and contentious seaman
- whaler - a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales
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Someone who works with their hands;
Someone engaged in manual labor (synset 110260997)is a type of: working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial laborsubtypes:- 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
- gravedigger - a person who earns a living by digging graves
- hewer - a person who hews
- hand, hired hand, hired man - a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
- hod carrier, hodman - a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers
- gipsy, gypsy, itinerant - a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
- faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman - a person who fells trees
- miner, mineworker - laborer who works in a mine
- mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner - a worker who drives mules
- 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
- yardman - a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)
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Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit;
It contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted (synset 107770660)is a type of: edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet fleshis a part of: artocarpus heterophyllus, jackfruit, jackfruit tree - East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds -
A small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling (synset 103594859)
is a type of: ball - round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in gamesis a part of: bowls, lawn bowling - a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
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An electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug (synset 103594700)
is a type of: electrical device - a device that produces or is powered by electricitysubtypes: phone jack, telephone jack - a jack for plugging in a telephone
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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 (synset 103594500)
is a type of: game equipment - equipment or apparatus used in playing a gamesame as: jackstones
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Small flag indicating a ship's nationality (synset 103594407)
is a type of: flag - emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
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One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince (synset 103594280)
is a type of: court card, face card, picture card - one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a facesame as: knave
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Tool for exerting pressure or lifting (synset 103594138)
is a type of: tool - an implement used in the practice of a vocationsubtypes:
- bumper jack - a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper
- jackscrew, screw jack - screw-operated jack
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Any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas (synset 102579206)
is a type of: carangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidaesubtypes:
- caranx hippos, crevalle jack, jack crevalle - fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
- caranx bartholomaei, yellow jack - fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
- blue runner, caranx crysos, runner - fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
- elagatis bipinnulata, rainbow runner - streamlined cigar-shaped jack; good game fish
- leatherjack, leatherjacket - any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales
- alectis ciliaris, thread-fish, threadfish - fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins
- amberfish, amberjack - any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes
- seriola dorsalis, yellowtail - game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin
- banded rudderfish, rudderfish, seriola zonata - fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters
- kingfish, seriola grandis - large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
belongs to: carangidae, family carangidae - large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas -
Male donkey (synset 102392595)
is a type of: ass - hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horsesame as: jackass
Verb
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Lift with a special device (synset 201222108)
"jack up the car so you can change the tire"same as: jack up
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Hunt with a jacklight (synset 201147831)
same as: jacklight
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