jacket

A short piece of clothing with sleeves, worn over other clothes on your upper body.

• Put on your jacket.
• She took her keys from her jacket pocket.
• Do you need a warmer jacket?

Similar words: sleeve

Common phrases: leather jacket, denim jacket, wear a jacket, winter jacket

The upper part of a suit, worn over a shirt and usually matching the trousers.

• His suit jacket is black.
• She hung her jacket beside the matching trousers.
• He buttoned his jacket before entering the meeting.

Common phrases: suit jacket, jacket and trousers, button a jacket

An outer covering that protects something, such as a book or record.

• The book has a blue jacket.
• She removed the torn dust jacket.
• The record jacket features a photograph of the band.

Similar words: cover, sleeve

Common phrases: dust jacket, book jacket, record jacket

To put a protective outer covering around something.

• We need to jacket the pipe.
• The manufacturer jackets each cable with plastic.
• They jacketed the tank to reduce heat loss.

How to use it: jacket something with something (The workers jacketed the pipe with insulating material.)

Similar words: cover, encase, sheathe

Common phrases: jacket a pipe, jacket a cable, jacket with something, jacket something