What's the difference between jacket and suit?

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.

Suit


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
  • (n.) The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.
  • (n.) The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.
  • (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.
  • (n.) That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.
  • (n.) Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.
  • (n.) A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes.
  • (n.) One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds.
  • (n.) Regular order; succession.
  • (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
  • (v. t.) To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
  • (v. t.) To dress; to clothe.
  • (v. t.) To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
  • (v. i.) To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
  • (2) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
  • (3) It is concluded that the present method for demonstration of aryl sulphatase activity is not well suited for microscopical identification of lysosomes in rat liver parenchymal cells.
  • (4) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
  • (5) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
  • (6) This variability, coupled with the lack of extreme specificity in the secondary auditory cortex, suggests that secondary cortical neurons are not well suited for the role of "vocalization detectors."
  • (7) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
  • (8) Ligament tissue seems to be less well suited to the microsphere technique; however, further study is warranted.
  • (9) Stimulus-response characteristics suggested that this system was well suited for a role in tonic inhibition of sympathetic activity.
  • (10) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
  • (11) CIE has several operational advantages over ELISA and best suited to laboratories with limited resources.
  • (12) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (13) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
  • (14) These studies thus provide a well-characterized repertoire of MAbs that are well suited for potential clinical trials involving the radiolocalization and possibly therapy of human colon carcinoma lesions.
  • (15) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (16) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
  • (17) A test suite has been developed for evaluating hearing aids.
  • (18) Owing to its broad spectrum of action (covering both gram-positive and gram-negative microorganisms and anaerobes) and its consistently strong molar action, mezlocillin is well suited as a beta-lactam combination component for intensive care patients.
  • (19) These design methods are suited for constructing the most efficient gradient coil that meets a specified homogeneity requirement.
  • (20) What we’re saying is the advertising is false.” Prosecutors are not asking the court to halt the company’s services while the suit proceeds.