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单词 yellow jack
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jack1 /jak/

noun
  1. (with cap) a familiar form or diminutive of John
  2. (with cap) the common man (obsolete)
  3. (with cap) a contemptuous term for an ordinary man (obsolete)
  4. (usu with cap) an ill-mannered, vulgar or boorish fellow (obsolete)
  5. (sometimes with cap) an attendant, servant or labourer
  6. (often with cap) a sailor
  7. (with cap) used in addressing a man whose name is unknown to the speaker (US sl)
  8. A detective (slang)
  9. Money (US sl)
  10. Nothing at all (also jack shit; US vulgar sl)
  11. A machine or device which orig took the place of a servant, such as a boot-jack for taking off boots, a device for turning a spit (smoke-jack, roasting jack), a device for raising heavy weights
  12. A winch
  13. A socket whose connections operate either to complete or break the circuit only when a jack plug is inserted (telecommunications, etc)
  14. A figure that strikes the bell in clocks
  15. The male of some animals
  16. A jackass (also jack donkey)
  17. A jack rabbit
  18. A jackdaw
  19. A jackfish
  20. Any of various tropical and subtropical carangid fishes
  21. (in keyboard instruments) part of the action that moves the hammer or carries the quill or tangent
  22. The key itself (Shakespeare)
  23. A contrivance for guiding threads in a loom
  24. A saw-horse
  25. A jack-crosstree (nautical)
  26. A small flag indicating nationality, flown by a ship, usu at the bow or the bowsprit
  27. A leather pitcher or bottle
  28. A playing card bearing the picture of a young man, a knave
  29. (in pl) the game of dibs (also jackˈstones)
  30. A piece used in this game (also jackˈstone)
  31. The small white ball aimed at in bowls
  32. (with cap) a Jacqueminot rose
transitive verb
  1. To raise with, or as if with, a jack (with up)
  2. To act upon with a jack
  3. To throw up or abandon (usu with in or, formerly, up; slang)
  4. To increase (eg prices) (with up)
  5. To connect electronically (with in or into; informal)
  6. To contrive, organize, or set in motion (with up; NZ inf)
intransitive verb
  1. (with up) to give up (old slang)
  2. (with off) to masturbate (slang)
  3. (with up) to inject oneself, take a fix (drug sl)
  4. (with up) to refuse, resist (Aust sl)
  5. (with around) to waste time, behave irresponsibly (informal)
adjective (Aust)

Tired, fed up

ORIGIN: Appar Fr Jacques, once the most common name in France, hence used as a substitute for John, once the most common name in England; really = James or Jacob, from L Jacōbus; but possibly partly from Jackin, Jankin, dimin of John

Jackˈeen or jackˈeen noun (Irish derog sl)

A person from Dublin, esp one with a parochial attitude

Jackˈy or Jackˈy-Jacky noun (Aust offensive sl)

A nickname for an Aborigine

Jack-a-danˈdy noun

A dandy or fop, esp if diminutive

Jack-a-lanˈtern noun

A Jack-o'-lantern

Jackˈ-a-Lent noun (Shakespeare)

A boy (for Jack of Lent a kind of puppet formerly used as an Aunt Sally in Lent)

jack bean noun

A subtropical American climbing bean (genus Canavalia)

jackˈ-block noun

A block of pulleys used for raising and lowering topgallant-masts

jackˈboot noun

  1. A large boot reaching above the knee, to protect the leg, orig covered with iron plates and worn by cavalry
  2. Military rule, esp when brutal (figurative)

intransitive verb

(with around; also transitive verb with it) to behave in an oppressive or brutally authoritarian way, to domineer, throw one's weight around

jackˈbooted adjective

jackˈ-by-the-hedge noun

(also with cap) garlic mustard

jack-crossˈtree noun (nautical)

The crosstree at the head of a topgallant-mast

jack easy adjective

Indifferent, not caring one way or the other

jackˈfish noun

A young pike

Jackˈ-fool noun

A fool

Jack Frost noun

Frost or freezing weather personified

Jackˈ-go-to-bed-at-noon noun

The plant goat's-beard

jackˈhammer noun

A hand-held compressed-air hammer drill for rock-drilling (also transitive verb)

jackˈ-high adjective and adverb

(in bowls) as far as the jack

Jackˈ-in-office noun

(also without cap) a vexatiously self-important petty official

Jackˈ-in-the-box noun

(also without cap) a toy figure that springs up from a box when the lid is released

Jackˈ-in-the-green noun

A May-Day dancer enclosed in a green shrubby framework

Jackˈ-in-the-pulpit noun

  1. A N American plant (Arisaema triphyllum) like cuckoo pint
  2. Also applied to various other plants, esp of the genus Arisaema

Jack Ketch noun (historical)

A public hangman, from one so named under James II

jackˈknife noun

  1. A large clasp knife
  2. A dive in which the performer doubles up in the air and straightens out again

intransitive verb and transitive verb

  1. To double up as a jackknife does
  2. (of articulated vehicles or parts) through faulty control, to form, or cause to form, an angle of 90º or less

Jack Mormon noun (US)

  1. A non-Mormon living amicably in a Mormon community
  2. An inactive, lapsed or nominal Mormon

Jack-of-allˈ-trades noun

(also without cap) someone who can turn a hand to anything

Jack-o'-lanˈtern noun

  1. (also without cap) a will-o'-the-wisp
  2. A lantern made from a hollowed-out pumpkin, turnip, etc with holes cut to resemble eyes, mouth and nose

jack pine noun

Any of several N American species of pine

jack plane noun

A large strong plane used by carpenters

jack plug noun (telecommunications, etc)

A one-pronged plug used to introduce an apparatus quickly into a circuit

jackˈpot noun

  1. A money pool in card games, competitions, etc that can be won only on certain conditions being fulfilled and accumulates until such time as they are (see also hit the jackpot below)
  2. A prize-money fund
  3. Orig a poker game, played for the pot or pool (consisting of equal stakes from all the players), which must be opened by a player holding two jacks or better
  4. A mess, an awkward situation (US sl)

Jackˈ-priest noun (derogatory)

A parson

Jackˈ-pudding noun (historical)

A professional buffoon, a jester

jack rabbit noun

A long-eared American hare

jackˈ-rafter noun

A rafter shorter than the rest, as in a hip-roof

Jack Russell or Jack Russell terrier noun

A breed of small terrier, introduced by John Russell, 19c parson

Jackˈ-sauce noun (Shakespeare)

An impudent fellow

jack screw noun same as screw jack (see under screw).

jack shaft or jackˈshaft noun (engineering)

An intermediate shaft, eg between a motor and the wheels it drives

jack shit noun (chiefly US sl)

Nothing at all

Jackˈ-slave noun (Shakespeare)

A low servant, a vulgar fellow

jackˈsmith noun (obsolete)

A maker of roasting jacks

jackˈsnipe noun

Any of various small species of snipe

Jack Sprat noun

A diminutive fellow

jackˈ-staff noun

The staff on a ship on which the jack (flag) is hoisted

jackˈ-stays plural noun

Ropes or strips of wood or iron stretched along the yards of a ship to bind the sails to

Jack Straw or jackˈ-straw noun

  1. A straw effigy
  2. A man of straw, a lightweight
  3. A straw or slip used in the game of Jack Straws or spillikins

Jack tar noun

(also without cap) a sailor

Jack the lad noun

A flashy, cocksure young man

jack towel noun

A continuous towel passing over a roller

jackˈ-up noun

  1. An offshore oil rig or accommodation platform, etc secured by legs that are lowered from the platform to the seabed (also jackˈ-up rig)
  2. An act of non-co-operation or resistance (Aust sl)
  3. A swindle or other dishonest arrangement (NZ inf)

Jacky-Jacky see Jacky above.

before you can or could say Jack Robinson

Very quickly

cheap-Jack see under cheap

every man Jack

One and all, everybody

hit the jackpot

  1. To win a jackpot
  2. To have a big success or stroke of good fortune

I'm all right, Jack

An expression of selfish or indifferent complacency at the misfortunes or difficulties of others

steeplejack see under steeple

Union Jack

(not properly a jack) see under union1

yellow jack (slang)

Yellow fever

yellow /yelˈō/

adjective
  1. Of the colour of sulphur, egg yolk, gold, a ripe lemon, a primrose, etc
  2. Of Mongolic or Oriental race (Chinese, Japanese, etc) (now often considered offensive)
  3. Of mixed black and white race (US)
  4. Of skin, sallow, sickly-looking
  5. Cowardly (informal)
  6. Sensational (informal)
noun
  1. The colour of the rainbow between the orange and the green or of sulphur, egg yolk, gold, a ripe lemon, a primrose, etc
  2. Any dye or pigment producing such a colour
  3. A yolk
  4. (in pl) peach-yellows (see peach1), or other plant disease in which the foliage turns yellow
  5. (in pl) jaundice in horses, etc
transitive verb and intransitive verb

To make or become yellow

ORIGIN: OE geolu; Ger gelb; cognate with L helvus light bay

yellˈowish adjective

Somewhat yellow

yellˈowishness noun

yellˈowness noun

  1. The quality or state of being yellow
  2. Jealousy (obsolete; figurative)

yellˈowy adjective

Yellowish

yellow alert noun

An alarm, etc one stage less serious than a red alert

yellow-ammer see yellowhammer below.

yellow archangel noun

The dead-nettle archangel

yellˈowback noun

A cheap, sensational novel, specif one with yellow board or paper covers, common in the 19c

yellˈow-bellied adjective (slang)

Cowardly

yellˈow-belly noun (slang)

A coward

yellow berries plural noun

Persian berries, the fruit of various species of buckthorn

yellow bile see under bile

yellˈowbird noun

Any of various, esp N American, birds of a yellow colour such as the American goldfinch

yellˈow-boy noun (obs sl)

  1. A gold coin
  2. A mulatto or dark-skinned quadroon (fem yellˈow-girl)

yellow brick road noun

A path to fame, wealth, etc

yellow bunting noun

The yellowhammer

yellˈowcake noun

Uranium oxide, obtained in the form of a yellow precipitate during the processing of uranium ore

yellow card noun

  1. An official warning to a football, etc player (signalled by the showing of a yellow card), typically following an infringement
  2. Any similar warning, or a symbol of it (figurative)

yellow centaury same as yellow-wort below.

yellow dog noun

  1. A mongrel
  2. A cur
  3. A contemptible or cowardly person (also used adjectivally, esp US, as in yellow-dog contract, orig one requiring an employee not to be a member of a trade union, now, in a more general sense, one which gives acceptable advantages to an employee)

yellow earth noun

Yellow ochre

yellow-eyed grass noun

Any plant of the genus Xyris, growing abundantly in the pine-barrens of the southern USA

yellow fever noun

An acute disease occurring in tropical America and W Africa, caused by infection with a virus transmitted to humans by the bite of a mosquito and characterized by high fever, acute nephritis, jaundice and haemorrhages

yellˈowfin noun

A variety of tuna with yellow fins

yellow flag noun

A flag of a yellow colour, displayed by a vessel in quarantine or over a military hospital or ambulance

yellow-girl see yellow-boy above.

yellˈowhammer or (obsolete) yellˈow-ammer noun

A bunting (Emberiza citrinella), so named from the yellow colour of the male (also called yellow bunting)

yellˈowhead noun

A species of flycatcher (Mohoua ochrocephala) found in New Zealand

yellow jack noun (old)

Yellow fever

yellow jacket noun (N American)

A small common wasp or hornet (genus Vespa) with yellow and black markings

yellow jersey noun

(Fr maillot jaune) the jersey worn each day in the Tour de France cycle race by the overall leader in the race

yellˈowlegs noun

A N American sandpiper with yellow legs

yellow line noun

A line of yellow paint, or other substance, on a road indicating parking restrictions

yellow metal noun

A brass consisting of sixty parts copper and forty parts zinc

Yellow Pages® noun

A telephone directory, printed on yellow paper, which classifies participating subscribers alphabetically according to trades, professions, services, etc

yellow pepper see under pepper

yellow peril noun (also with caps; derogatory or facetious)

  1. The supposed danger that the Oriental races, esp the Chinese, might overthrow the white or Western races and overrun the world
  2. The Chinese or Japanese

yellow poplar noun

The American tulip tree, or its wood

yellow press noun

(also with cap) newspapers abounding in exaggerated, sensational articles

yellow rattle see under rattle

yellow ribbon noun (US)

A symbol of welcome for those returning home after having undergone some danger, orig a decoration on US cavalrymen's tunics, given to sweethearts as favours

yellˈow-root noun

Golden-seal

yellow rust noun

A fungus damaging to wheat

yellow snow noun

Snow sometimes observed in the Alps and in the Antarctic regions, coloured yellow by the growth on it of certain algae

yellow soap noun

Common soap composed of tallow, resin and soda

yellow spot noun

The macula lutea, the small area at the centre of the retina in vertebrates at which vision is most distinct

yellow streak noun

A tendency to cowardly behaviour

yellˈowtail noun

  1. Any of various sea fishes with yellow tail fins
  2. A white tussock moth with a yellow-tipped abdomen

yellow wash noun

A lotion consisting of a mixture of mercuric chloride and lime water

yellˈow-weed noun

  1. The common ragwort
  2. Goldenrod
  3. Weld (the plant) (dialect)

yellˈow-wood noun

  1. Any of various woods that are light in colour, such as satinwood, or which yield yellow dye, such as Cladrastis lutea (American yellow-wood) of the southern USA
  2. Any of the trees that yield these woods
  3. A tree, such as a sumach, that yields yellow dye from a part other than the wood

yellˈow-wort noun

An annual of the gentian family (also yellow centaury)

yellˈow-yite, yellow yoldring, yellow yorling or yellow-yowˈley same as yellowhammer above.
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