What's the difference between jacket and racket?

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.

Racket


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
  • (n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
  • (n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
  • (n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
  • (v. t.) To strike with, or as with, a racket.
  • (n.) Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
  • (n.) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
  • (v. i.) To make a confused noise or racket.
  • (v. i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
  • (v. i.) To carouse or engage in dissipation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I would hope that a Labour party led by Ralph Miliband's son would recognise that, and be committed to ending the capitalist racket once and for all.
  • (2) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
  • (3) "I was skint," claims Reni, adding, "when I went to audition for this lot I thought that they were a horrible racket, but I was struck by their commitment.
  • (4) There is the tennis racket kitted out with motion sensors to help you improve your game .
  • (5) The influences of body weight, skill level, and tennis racket construction onto the magnitude of vibrations at wrist and elbow were investigated.
  • (6) for the word "brave" at the end of the national anthem, still booed the Panthers' players as they entered the field and still made a racket as the opposition lined up for key third downs.
  • (7) Libertarianism in the hands of these people is a racket.
  • (8) "I've always liked being on the court, I never like just putting the rackets away for two and a half, three weeks.
  • (9) Mexican drug cartels have been waging an increasingly bloody war to control smuggling routes, the local drug market and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States.
  • (10) He's still a genius, he's still got it, and that bigger racket seems to be suiting him perfectly.
  • (11) Jamie changed rackets after netting a smash on the final point of the fourth game but there seemed something more fundamentally wrong with his tennis than his equipment.
  • (12) If the 40-year-old and his three co-accused are sent to the US they will face charges of racketeering, money laundering and copyright theft, carrying potential jail terms of 20 years.
  • (13) Their influence was such that they dealt directly with government ministers, he said, and steered clear of low-level criminal activities such as racketeering.
  • (14) Murray earned $1.9m (£1.1m) for his maiden major victory to go with career earnings of $21.5m (£13.4m) and is worth £24m through endorsements and prize-money; Perry turned pro after beating Budge and made much more through his famous shirts than he ever did with a tennis racket.
  • (15) Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit, filed in California, accuses the group of violating the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act.
  • (16) Ben Stephenson, the BBC's head of drama, said much the same at the Edinburgh festival but did not add that television is a racket, too.
  • (17) The officer told Amnesty some police have established a racket with funeral homes, who pay them for each dead body sent their way.
  • (18) The assistants – old garage heads who clearly loathed this racket the kids were making – dismissively lobbed a pile of white labels on to the counter.
  • (19) German publishers have attempted to sue Eyeo , the makers of the most popular ad-blocking software, Ad Block Plus, which charges publishers for putting them on a “whitelist” of sites whose ads it allows to pass through its systems (an approach Jarvis labels “racketeering”).
  • (20) Much of the mutual "business" of the SNB is based on simple rackets, construction on some of the biggest plots and state tenders, all controlled by a group of top people in the SNB.