jack
- IPA[jak]
美式
- a device for lifting heavy objects, especially one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off the ground so that a wheel can be changed or the underside inspected.；a playing card bearing a representation of a soldier, page, or knave, normally ranking next below a queen.
noun: jack, plural noun: jacks
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. a device for lifting heavy objects, especially one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off the ground so that a wheel can be changed or the underside inspected.
- 2. a playing card bearing a representation of a soldier, page, or knave, normally ranking next below a queen.
- 3. a socket designed to receive a jack plug.
- 4. a plug used in a jack socket, consisting of a shaft used to make a connection that transmits a signal, typically used in sound equipment.
- 5. in lawn bowling, the small ball at which the players aim.
- 6. a game played by tossing and catching small round pebbles or star-shaped pieces of metal or plastic.
- ▪ a small round pebble or star-shaped piece of metal used in the game of jacks.
- ▪ US informal used as a form of address to a man whose name is not known.
- ▪ North American informal a lumberjack.
- ▪ archaic a steeplejack.
- ▪ the figure of a man striking the bell on a clock.
- 7. a small version of a national flag flown at the bow of a vessel in harbor to indicate its nationality.
- 8. North American informal, dated money.
- 9. a device for turning a spit.
- 10. a part of the mechanism in a spinet or harpsichord that connects a key to its corresponding string and causes the string to be plucked when the key is pressed down.
- 11. a marine fish that is typically laterally compressed with a row of large spiky scales along each side. Jacks are important in many places as food or game fish.
- 12. the male of some animals, especially a merlin or an ass.
- 13. used in names of animals that are smaller than similar kinds, e.g., jacksnipe.
- 14. US informal short for jack shit
- 15. short for jackrabbit
