jacket

1. 1.

   provide with a thermally non-conducting cover

   “The tubing needs to be jacketed”

   Broadercover
2. 2.

   put a jacket on

   “The men were jacketed”

   Broaderdress

Other forms of jacket

plural

jackets·

past tense

jacketted·

present participle

jacketting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jacket

What does jacket mean?

jacket means "a short coat". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jacket?

jacket has 2 syllables: jac-ket. The stress falls on "jac". In IPA it is /ˈdʒækət/.

What is another word for jacket?

Close synonyms include crown, crownwork, jacket crown, cap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jacket a common word?

jacket is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with jacket?

1 word rhymes with jacket. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.