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# jacket

«jacket» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short coat with sleeves that you wear over other clothes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a jacket, jackets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A jacket is a short coat with sleeves that you wear over other clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#m1)

2) A jacket is also a cover for something: a book jacket, a jacket potato (a potato baked with its skin). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#m2)

3) A life jacket is a vest that keeps you floating in water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you wear a jacket when it is cool, windy or wet; a waterproof jacket for rain, a hi-vis (bright yellow or orange) jacket to be seen on roads. In water safety lessons always wear a life jacket on boats and kayaks. In stories a character's jacket can be a clue. Phrases: put on your jacket, take off your jacket, life jacket, rain jacket, jacket potato, hi-vis jacket.

### examples

- Put on your jacket; it's chilly outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#x1)
- My jacket has a hood for when it rains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#x2)
- Always wear a life jacket on a boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#x3)
- We had jacket potatoes with cheese for lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#x4)
- He hung his jacket on the hook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#x5)
- Cyclists wear bright jackets so drivers can see them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#x6)
- The jacket of this book has a dragon on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#x7)
- I left my jacket at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#x8)
- It was a blue jacket with brass buttons, quite new. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/#x9)

### note

Countable: jackets. A jacket is usually shorter and lighter than a coat. A life jacket should fit snugly and be done up, or it can slip off in the water.

### In the corpora

- [Paper is soaked and mashed into new paper, and plastic bottles can be spun into threads for fleece jackets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/3/)
- [Plastic bottles can be melted and spun into fibres for fleece jackets; a jacket is often said to take about 25 bottles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/14/)
- [Everyone in a small boat should wear a life jacket.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/7-swimming-and-water/16/)
- [Everyone on a boat should wear a life jacket.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/45-pools-lakes-and-ice/13/)
- [In a boat or canoe you always wear a life jacket that fits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/232-lakes-and-beaches/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jacket» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jacket/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.