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Parka vs. Jacket — What's the Difference?

Parka vs. Jacket — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Parka and Jacket

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Parka

A parka or anorak is a type of coat with a hood, often lined with fur or faux fur. The Caribou Inuit invented this kind of garment, originally made from caribou or seal skin, for hunting and kayaking in the frigid Arctic.

Jacket

A jacket is a garment for the upper body, usually extending below the hips. A jacket typically has sleeves, and fastens in the front or slightly on the side.

Parka

A hooded outer garment worn in the Arctic, made from animal skin and constructed with the fur on the inside, originally designed as a pullover but now usually closing in front.

Jacket

A short coat usually extending to the hips.

Parka

A coat or jacket with a hood and usually a warm lining for cold-weather wear.
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Jacket

The skin of a potato.

Parka

A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind.

Jacket

The dust jacket of a book or phonograph record.

Parka

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

Jacket

An insulation covering for a steam pipe, wire, boiler, or similar part.

Parka

A coat with a fur lining and a hood, used for protection in very cold weather.

Jacket

An open envelope or folder for filing papers.

Parka

Any of a variety of jackets with attached hoods, usually of very warm or waterproof construction so as to provide protection from cold or rainy weather.

Jacket

The outer metal shell or case of a bullet.

Parka

A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)

Jacket

A piece of jewelry or other ornament that attaches to an earring stud.

Jacket

To supply or cover with a jacket.

Jacket

A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.

Jacket

A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat US

Jacket

A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)

Jacket

(slang) A police record.

Jacket

(military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

Jacket

The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

Jacket

(Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that they are not the child’s biological father.

Jacket

(Appalachian) A vestUS; a waistcoat UK

Jacket

To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.

Jacket

(transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

Jacket

A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.

Jacket

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.

Jacket

In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reënforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

Jacket

A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; - called also cork jacket.

Jacket

To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.

Jacket

To thrash; to beat.

Jacket

A short coat

Jacket

An outer wrapping or casing;
Phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets

Jacket

(dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth

Jacket

The outer skin of a potato

Jacket

The tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition

Jacket

Provide with a thermally non-conducting cover;
The tubing needs to be jacketed

Jacket

Put a jacket on;
The men were jacketed

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