| jack | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat | a small worthless amount.; "you don't know jack" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| n. (person) | 2. gob, jack, jack-tar, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, tar | a man who serves as a sailor. |
| ~ able-bodied seaman, able 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. |
| ~ ship's officer, officer | a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel.; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines" |
| ~ pilot | a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor. |
| ~ crewman, sailor | any member of a ship's crew. |
| ~ sea lawyer | an argumentative and contentious seaman. |
| ~ whaler | a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales. |
| n. (person) | 3. jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer | someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ navvy, peon, drudge, galley slave | 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. |
| ~ hired hand, hired man, hand | a hired laborer on a farm or ranch.; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand" |
| ~ 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.; "itinerant traders" |
| ~ 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-walloper, dock worker, 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. |
| ~ working man, working person, workingman, workman | an employee who performs manual or industrial labor. |
| ~ wrecker | someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job. |
| ~ yardman | a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns). |
| n. (food) | 4. jack, jackfruit, jak | immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted. |
| ~ edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh. |
| ~ artocarpus heterophyllus, jackfruit, jackfruit tree | East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. jack | a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling. |
| ~ bowls, lawn bowling | a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack. |
| ~ ball | round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.; "the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"; "the mayor threw out the first ball"; "the ball rolled into the corner pocket" |
| n. (artifact) | 6. jack | an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug. |
| ~ electrical device | a device that produces or is powered by electricity. |
| ~ phone jack, telephone jack | a jack for plugging in a telephone. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. jack, jackstones | 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. |
| ~ game equipment | equipment or apparatus used in playing a game. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. jack | small flag indicating a ship's nationality. |
| ~ flag | emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design. |
| n. (artifact) | 9. jack, knave | one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince. |
| ~ court card, face card, picture card | one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face. |
| n. (artifact) | 10. jack | tool for exerting pressure or lifting. |
| ~ bumper jack | a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper. |
| ~ jackscrew, screw jack | screw-operated jack. |
| ~ tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation. |
| n. (animal) | 11. jack | any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas. |
| ~ carangidae, family carangidae | large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas. |
| ~ carangid, carangid fish | a percoid fish of the family Carangidae. |
| ~ 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, seriola zonata, rudderfish | fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters. |
| ~ seriola grandis, kingfish | large game fish of Australia and New Zealand. |
| n. (animal) | 12. jack, jackass | male donkey. |
| ~ ass | hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse. |
| v. (contact) | 13. jack, jack up | lift with a special device.; "jack up the car so you can change the tire" |
| ~ lift, elevate, raise, get up, bring up | raise from a lower to a higher position.; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" |
| v. (competition) | 14. jack, jacklight | hunt with a jacklight. |
| ~ hunt, hunt down, track down, run | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals).; "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" |
| lever | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. lever | a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum. |
| ~ bar | a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon.; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" |
| ~ compound lever | a pair of levers hinged at the fulcrum. |
| ~ crowbar, pry, pry bar, wrecking bar | a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge. |
| ~ fulcrum | the pivot about which a lever turns. |
| ~ gun trigger, trigger | lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun. |
| ~ hand throttle | a hand-operated lever that controls the throttle valve. |
| ~ key | a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed. |
| ~ cant dog, dog hook, peavey, peavy | a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs. |
| ~ foot lever, foot pedal, treadle, pedal | a lever that is operated with the foot. |
| ~ pinch bar | a lever with a pointed projection that serves as a fulcrum; used to roll heavy wheels. |
| ~ ripping bar | a steel lever with one end formed into a ripping chisel and the other a gooseneck with a claw for pulling nails. |
| ~ rocker arm, valve rocker | a lever pivoted at the center; used especially to push a valve down in an internal-combustion engine. |
| ~ spark lever | (on early automobiles) a lever mounted on the steering column and used to adjust the timing of the ignition. |
| ~ control stick, joystick, stick | a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane. |
| ~ tappet | a lever that is moved in order to tap something else. |
| ~ tiller | lever used to turn the rudder on a boat. |
| ~ tire iron, tire tool | hand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. lever | a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum. |
| ~ simple machine, machine | a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. lever, lever tumbler | a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock. |
| ~ lever lock | a lock whose tumblers are levers that must be raised to a given position so that the bolt can move. |
| ~ tumbler | a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown. |
| v. (contact) | 4. jimmy, lever, prise, prize, pry | to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open.; "The burglar jimmied the lock"; "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" |
| ~ loosen, loose | make loose or looser.; "loosen the tension on a rope" |
| ~ open, open up | cause to open or to become open.; "Mary opened the car door" |
| jimmy | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. jemmy, jimmy | a short crowbar.; "in Britain they call a jimmy and jemmy" |
| ~ crowbar, pry, pry bar, wrecking bar | a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge. |
| pry | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. crowbar, pry, pry bar, wrecking bar | a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge. |
| ~ jim crow | a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails. |
| ~ jemmy, jimmy | a short crowbar.; "in Britain they call a jimmy and jemmy" |
| ~ lever | a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum. |
| v. (communication) | 2. pry | be nosey.; "Don't pry into my personal matters!" |
| ~ ask, enquire, inquire | inquire about.; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times" |
| v. (perception) | 3. horn in, intrude, nose, poke, pry | search or inquire in a meddlesome way.; "This guy is always nosing around the office" |
| ~ search, look | search or seek.; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!" |
| v. (creation) | 4. prise, pry | make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry.; "They pried the information out of him" |
| ~ wring from, extort | get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner. |
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