Jack vs. Paint — What's the Difference?

Often Jack(Informal) A man; a fellow.

Paint is any pigmented liquid, liquefiable, or solid mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color, or provide texture to objects.

One who does odd or heavy jobs; a laborer.

A liquid mixture, usually of a solid pigment in a liquid vehicle, used as a decorative or protective coating.

One who works in a specified manual trade. Often used in combination

The thin dry film formed by such a mixture when applied to a surface.

Jack A sailor; a tar.

The solid pigment before it is mixed with a vehicle.

Abbr. J(Games) A playing card showing the figure of a servant or soldier and ranking below a queen. Also called knave.

A cosmetic, such as rouge, that is used to give color to the face; makeup.

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.

(Basketball) The free throw lane.

One of the six-pointed pieces so used.

A Paint horse.

(Sports) A pin used in some games of bowling.

(Slang) The face cards in a deck of cards

A usually portable device for raising heavy objects by means of force applied with a lever, screw, or hydraulic press.

To make (a picture) with paints.

A wooden wedge for cleaving rock.

To represent in a picture with paints.

A device used for turning a spit.

To depict vividly in words.

A support or brace, especially the iron crosstree on a topgallant masthead.

To coat or decorate with paint

A small flag flown at the bow of a ship, usually to indicate nationality.

To apply cosmetics to.

The male of certain animals, especially the ass.

To apply medicine to; swab

Any of various food and game fishes of the family Carangidae, found in tropical and temperate seas.

To shine a laser beam on, especially in order to designate a target for laser-guided munitions.

A jackrabbit.

To practice the art of painting pictures.

A socket that accepts a plug at one end and attaches to electric circuitry at the other.

To cover something with paint.

(Slang) Money.

To apply cosmetics to oneself

Applejack.

To serve as a surface to be coated with paint

(Slang) A small or worthless amount

A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.

To hunt or fish for with a jacklight

(in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.

To move or hoist by using a jack. Often used with up

The free-throw lane, construed with the.

To raise (something) to a higher level, as in cost. Often used with up

Paintballs.

(Baseball) To hit (a pitched ball) hard, especially for a home run.

A face card (king, queen, or jack).

To steal

Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.

To rob or cheat

(uncountable) Makeup.

To hunt or fish by using a jacklight.

Tattoo work.

To plug into an electronic device by means of a jack.

(dated) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.

A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.

The appearance of an object on a radar screen.

A man.

(transitive) To apply paint to.

A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.

(transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.

A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.

To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.

(colloquial) A sailor.

(transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.

(slang) A policeman or detective; Australia a military policeman.

(transitive) To create (an image) with paints.

A manual laborer.

(intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.

A lumberjack.

To draw an element in a graphical user interface.

A sepoy.

To depict or portray.

A device or utensil.

(intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.

To direct a radar beam toward.

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.

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

(obsolete) A support for wood being sawn; a sawhorse or sawbuck.

To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.

A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.

To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

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.

To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict; as, to paint a political opponent as a traitor.

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.

To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.

A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.

To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

(obsolete) A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine; a heck box.

A pigment or coloring substance.

(obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.

A cosmetic; rouge.

(electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; more generally a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.

A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating

A non-tool object or thing.

(basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court;

A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.

Makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks

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.

Make a painting;

(bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.

Apply paint to; coat with paint;

(nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.

Make a painting of;

A measure of liquid corresponding to a quarter of a pint.

Apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil

A fake coin designed to look like a sovereign.

A jack crosstree.

(games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.

(US) A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.

Money.

Nothing, jack shit.

The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.

A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.

A plant or animal.

A pike, especially when young.

A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.

Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.

(US) A jackrabbit.

A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.

Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.

(colloquial) Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.

(colloquial) Spadix of a plant (also capitalized 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.

The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.

The related tree Mangifera caesia.

A home run.

(transitive) To physically raise using a jack.

(transitive) To raise or increase.

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.

To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).

(intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.

To jack off, to masturbate.

To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.

(AU) Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).

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.

A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.

An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic.

A popular colloquial name for a sailor; - called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.

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

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.

The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.

The male of certain animals, as of the ass.

A young pike; a pickerel.

A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint.

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.

The knave of a suit of playing cards.

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.

Money.

Apple jack.

Brandy.

A coarse and cheap mediæval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.

A pitcher or can of waxed leather; - called also black jack.

A small worthless amount;

A man who serves as a sailor

Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor

Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its seeds are commonly roasted

An electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug

Game equipment consisting of one of several small objects picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks

Small flag indicating a ship's nationality

One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince

Tool for exerting pressure or lifting

Any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm-temperate seas

Male donkey

Lift with a special device;

Hunt with a jacklight