What's the difference between blazer and jacket?

Blazer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seven more were charged in the US and four more, including the former Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer, pleaded guilty.
  • (2) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (3) The flagship West London Free School, which was set up by journalist Toby Young, for example, insists parents buy school blazers priced from £37.50, jumpers from £19, ties at £4.80 and bags from £16, from approved supplier Billings & Edmonds.
  • (4) Playing with what one imagines to be a huge chip on his shoulder, Aldridge put up a career-high 44 points, and the Trail Blazers beat the Nuggets 110-105 .
  • (5) He is extremely keen to use Scotland as trail-blazer for the pure residence charge,” reported Letwin.
  • (6) Chandler Parsons scored on a reverse layup with 0.9 seconds left to give Houston the lead but there was just enough time for Lillard to hit a 3 that will go down in Blazers folklore.
  • (7) The plea bargain agreement reveals that Blazer, who was general secretary of the North and Central American Concacaf governing body, began providing information to the authorities in December 2011 – more than three years before the US government charged 14 current and former Fifa officials with “hijacking” international football to run “a World Cup of fraud” to line their pockets by $150m.
  • (8) That document showed that Warner was the recipient of the bribe referred to by Blazer in his testimony, relating to Morrocco’s failed bid for the 1998 World Cup.
  • (9) The Portland Trail Blazers' phenomenal run to start the season was partly based on a series of late victories in close games, a run that seemed unsustainable even at the time.
  • (10) But Fifa's blazered functionaries are already talking about the possibility of holding the 2010 tournament in two African countries.
  • (11) The following day, according to Warner’s authorised biography, he started his campaign for the Concacaf presidency with the help of the American administrator Chuck Blazer and, later, Havelange.
  • (12) Blazer had risen to the top of what was rapidly becoming one of the most popular sports in America, and was living the high life in nearby Trump tower, where he kept two apartments: one for him; and one reputedly for his cats.
  • (13) Yes, Bryant's return should help the Lakers remain competitive for the next two-plus seasons, but it's hard to see them coming out of a crowded Western Conference where they would have to leapfrog the Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets and even, it seems now, the Portland Trail Blazers.
  • (14) "The weather dictates," says Jeremy Langmead, editor-in-chief of Mr Porter , but ideally he'll wear "a relaxed combo of brightly coloured trousers – Jil Sander green, Band of Outsiders yellow – with grey T-shirts and unstructured blue blazers".
  • (15) Because the Trail Blazers didn't make many major moves during the offseason, they started the season as an afterthought in the incredibly competitive Western Conference and their early success provoked more skepticism than accolades.
  • (16) A Tory government would champion school uniforms, including blazers and ties, setting by ability and traditional subject-based classes.
  • (17) But after being mauled in the media for sartorial crimes – including a bright pink blazer and white shirt adorned with heart motifs – Hatoyama will be buoyed by the news that a Shanghai-based shirt-maker is selling copies of his most infamous garment as a tribute to his "individuality" .
  • (18) The charge of failing to declare a foreign bank account relates to money Blazer held during 2010 at First Caribbean International Bank, in the Bahamas.
  • (19) Although the Portland Trail Blazers' early season success didn't quite earn them respect from their doubters , it helps them a bit to have a win streak that ties them with the perennially successful Spurs.
  • (20) It dressed Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earheart and Katharine Hepburn, sold guns to Ernest Hemingway and blazers to JFK.

Jacket


Definition:

  • (n.) A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
  • (n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket.
  • (v. t.) To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.
  • (v. t.) To thrash; to beat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
  • (2) Eventually I was given a bag with my name on it, containing my jacket, wallet, and camera equipment.
  • (3) You’d think Michael Foot himself was running, attending debates in a hammer and sickle-print donkey jacket, from the amount we’ve been talking about him.
  • (4) Moderate to severe SRs were equally likely after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, and yellow hornet (65%), honeybee (67%), or wasp (70%), although historical SRs were reported more often after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, or yellow hornet (30%) than after honeybee (19%) or wasp (14%) stings.
  • (5) Jackets were frozen for storage and were later thawed and placed on experimental alien lambs.
  • (6) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
  • (7) Some antennae were equipped with an external cooling jacket.
  • (8) He would shower his fans with red roses at his concerts, he told the court, and give them jackets, T-shirts and other gifts.
  • (9) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
  • (10) She said: "I was out on the deck enjoying the fresh air when I saw a winter jacket in the water.
  • (11) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
  • (12) As Rush began to speak, he took off his jacket to reveal the hoodie, which has become a symbol of solidarity with Martin.
  • (13) For real.” A resident in a green puffer jacket emerged from the shelter with her 10-year-old son.
  • (14) Wearing a white dress, black jacket and patent leather sandals, and clutching her mobile phone and keys, she could be on her way to an office in one of the capital's new skyscrapers, instead of walking past a patchwork of bean and sweet potato fields en route to the village's tin-roofed administration offices.
  • (15) Sometimes he puts on a leather bomber jacket and talks tough, but it doesn't become him.
  • (16) Since February 1982, 23 patients with scoliosis were treated by releasing the soft tissues on the concave side and plaster spinal fusion jacket.
  • (17) Monáe sits with her back to me on a high stool, jacket removed, braces crisscrossed over an immaculate white shirt.
  • (18) Yorkshire swine were anesthetized and their flanks were protected by flak jackets.
  • (19) In vain I argued that Robin Day seemed to wear the same jacket and shirt every week, and fled back to radio."
  • (20) The man in the wool jacket said, 'We will allow him to walk to Chacharan.