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Jacket vs. Jumper

Jacket and Jumper Definitions

Jacket

A short coat usually extending to the hips.

Jumper

One that jumps.

Jacket

The skin of a potato.

Jumper

A type of coasting sled.

Jacket

The dust jacket of a book or phonograph record.

Jumper

(Electricity) A wire or cable used temporarily to complete a circuit or to bypass a break in a circuit.
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Jacket

An insulation covering for a steam pipe, wire, boiler, or similar part.

Jumper

(Basketball) See jump shot.

Jacket

An open envelope or folder for filing papers.

Jumper

A saddle horse that has been trained to jump over obstacles.

Jacket

The outer metal shell or case of a bullet.

Jumper

A sleeveless dress or a skirt that has an attached bib and is worn over a blouse or sweater.
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Jacket

A piece of jewelry or other ornament that attaches to an earring stud.

Jumper

A loose, protective garment worn over other clothes.

Jacket

To supply or cover with a jacket.

Jumper

Often jumpers A child's garment consisting of straight-legged pants attached to a biblike bodice.

Jacket

A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.

Jumper

Chiefly British A pullover sweater.
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Jacket

A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat US

Jumper

See jumpsuit.

Jacket

A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)

Jumper

Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.

Jacket

(slang) A police record.

Jumper

A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.

Jacket

(military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

Jumper

A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.

Jacket

The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

Jumper

(electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.

Jacket

(Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that they are not the child’s biological father.

Jumper

A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.

Jacket

(Appalachian) A vestUS; a waistcoat UK

Jumper

(US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.

Jacket

To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.

Jumper

A jumping spider.

Jacket

(transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

Jumper

The larva of the cheese fly.

Jacket

A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.

Jumper

One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

Jacket

An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.

Jumper

(horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

Jacket

In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reënforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

Jumper

(basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.

Jacket

A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; - called also cork jacket.

Jumper

A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.

Jacket

To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.

Jumper

(video games) A platform game based around jumping.

Jacket

To thrash; to beat.

Jumper

A woollen sweater or pullover.

Jacket

A short coat

Jumper

A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.

Jacket

An outer wrapping or casing;
Phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets

Jumper

(US) A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.

Jacket

(dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth

Jumper

(usually plural, jumpers) Rompers.

Jacket

The outer skin of a potato

Jumper

(transitive) To connect with an electrical jumper.

Jacket

The tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition

Jumper

One who, or that which, jumps.

Jacket

Provide with a thermally non-conducting cover;
The tubing needs to be jacketed

Jumper

A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.

Jacket

Put a jacket on;
The men were jacketed

Jumper

A rude kind of sleigh; - usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.

Jumper

The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

Jumper

A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

Jumper

Spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

Jumper

A loose upper garment

Jumper

A sleeveless one-piece dress, either with full shoulders or straps, sometimes with only the front part of the bodice, usually worn by women with a blouse underneath.

Jumper

A thing that jumps; esp., any of various tools or other contrivances operating with a jumping motion;

Jumper

A short wire, or a small plastic object containing such a short wire, used to optionally connect or disconnect two points in an electronic circuit, so as to include or exclude portions of the circuit and thus modify the function of the circuit. Such jumpers are much used to adapt add-on circuit boards for different conditions or functions within a computer.

Jumper

To insert a jumper{2} between the two contacts in (a circuit). See 2nd jumper.

Jumper

An athlete who competes at jumping

Jumper

An athlete who bounds or leaps (as in basketball)

Jumper

A small connector used to make temporary electrical connections

Jumper

A loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen

Jumper

A sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing

Jumper

A player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump

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