Jack vs. Knave — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Jack and Knave
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Jack
Often Jack(Informal) A man; a fellow.
Knave
A dishonest or unscrupulous man.
Jack
One who does odd or heavy jobs; a laborer.
Knave
(in cards) a jack.
Jack
One who works in a specified manual trade. Often used in combination
A lumberjack.
A steeplejack.
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Knave
An unprincipled, crafty fellow.
Jack
Jack A sailor; a tar.
Knave
A male servant.
Jack
Abbr. J(Games) A playing card showing the figure of a servant or soldier and ranking below a queen. Also called knave.
Knave
A man of humble birth.
Jack
Jacks (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A game played with a set of small, six-pointed, traditionally metal pieces and a small ball, the object being to pick up the pieces in various combinations.
Knave
(Games) See jack.
Jack
One of the six-pointed pieces so used.
Knave
(archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.
Jack
(Sports) A pin used in some games of bowling.
Knave
(archaic) Any male servant; a menial.
Jack
A usually portable device for raising heavy objects by means of force applied with a lever, screw, or hydraulic press.
Knave
A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.
Jack
A wooden wedge for cleaving rock.
Knave
(cards) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.
Jack
A device used for turning a spit.
Knave
A boy; especially, a boy servant.
O murderous slumber,Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boyThat plays thee music ? Gentle knave, good night.
Jack
A support or brace, especially the iron crosstree on a topgallant masthead.
Knave
Any male servant; a menial.
He's but Fortune's knave,A minister of her will.
Jack
A small flag flown at the bow of a ship, usually to indicate nationality.
Knave
A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.
In defiance of demonstration, knaves will continue to proselyte fools.
Jack
The male of certain animals, especially the ass.
Knave
A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack; as, the knave of hearts.
Jack
Any of various food and game fishes of the family Carangidae, found in tropical and temperate seas.
Knave
A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
Jack
A jackrabbit.
Knave
One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
Jack
A socket that accepts a plug at one end and attaches to electric circuitry at the other.
Jack
(Slang) Money.
Jack
Applejack.
Jack
(Slang) A small or worthless amount
You don't know jack about that.
Jack
To hunt or fish for with a jacklight
Hunters illegally jacking deer.
Jack
To move or hoist by using a jack. Often used with up
Jacked the rear of the car to replace the tire.
Jack
To raise (something) to a higher level, as in cost. Often used with up
"Foreign producers jacked up the price on some steels by over 100%" (Forbes).
Jack
(Baseball) To hit (a pitched ball) hard, especially for a home run.
Jack
To steal
Someone jacked my bike.
Jack
To rob or cheat
The dealer jacked me on the price.
Jack
To hunt or fish by using a jacklight.
Jack
To plug into an electronic device by means of a jack.
Jack
A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
Jack of mail
Padded jack
Jack
A man.
Jack
A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
Jack
A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
Jack
(colloquial) A sailor.
Jack
(slang) A policeman or detective; Australia a military policeman.
Jack
A manual laborer.
Jack
A lumberjack.
Jack
A sepoy.
Jack
A device or utensil.
Jack
A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
Jack
Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
Jack
(obsolete) A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.
Jack
A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
Jack
A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.
Jack
Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
Jack
A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
Jack
(obsolete) A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box.
Jack
(obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.
Jack
(electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; more generally a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
Telephone jack
Jack
A non-tool object or thing.
Jack
A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
Jack
The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
Jack
(bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
Jack
(nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
Jack
A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.
Jack
A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.
Jack
A jack crosstree.
Jack
(games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
Jack
(US) A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
Jack
Money.
Jack
Nothing, jack shit.
You haven't done jack. Get up and get this room cleaned up right now!
Jack
The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
Jack
A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
Jack
A plant or animal.
Jack
A pike, especially when young.
Jack
A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
Jack
Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
Jack
(US) A jackrabbit.
Jack
A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
Jack
Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
Jack
(colloquial) Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
Jack
(colloquial) Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
Jack
(apparently does not occur standalone for the genus per se) Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
Jack
The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
Jack
The related tree Mangifera caesia.
Jack
A home run.
Jack
(transitive) To physically raise using a jack.
He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads.
Jack
(transitive) To raise or increase.
If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
Jack
To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
Jack
To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
Someone jacked my car last night!
Jack
(intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
Jack
To jack off, to masturbate.
Jack
To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
Jack
(AU) Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).
Jack
A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow.
Jack
A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby.
Jack
An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic.
Since every Jack became a gentleman,There 's many a gentle person made a Jack.
Jack
A popular colloquial name for a sailor; - called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
Jack
A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack
Jack
A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body such as an automobile through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.
Jack
The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
Like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it.
Jack
The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
Jack
A young pike; a pickerel.
Jack
A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint.
Jack
A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; - called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
Jack
The knave of a suit of playing cards.
Jack
A game played with small (metallic, with tetrahedrally oriented spikes) objects (the jacks(1950+), formerly jackstones) that are tossed, caught, picked up, and arranged on a horizontal surface in various patterns; in the modern American game, the movements are accompanied by tossing or bouncing a rubber ball on the horizontal surface supporting the jacks. same as jackstones.
Jack
Money.
Jack
Apple jack.
Jack
Brandy.
Jack
A coarse and cheap mediæval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.
Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad.
Jack
A pitcher or can of waxed leather; - called also black jack.
Jack
A small worthless amount;
You don't know jack
Jack
A man who serves as a sailor
Jack
Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Jack
Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its seeds are commonly roasted
Jack
An electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
Jack
Game equipment consisting of one of several small objects picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
Jack
Small flag indicating a ship's nationality
Jack
One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
Jack
Tool for exerting pressure or lifting
Jack
Any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm-temperate seas
Jack
Male donkey
Jack
Lift with a special device;
Jack up the car so you can change the tire
Jack
Hunt with a jacklight
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