Uniform vs. Jersey — What's the Difference?

A uniform is a type of clothing worn by members of an organization while participating in that organization's activity. Modern uniforms are most often worn by armed forces and paramilitary organizations such as police, emergency services, security guards, in some workplaces and schools and by inmates in prisons.

Jersey ( JUR-zee, French: [ʒɛʁzɛ] (listen); Jèrriais: Jèrri [dʒɛri]), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (French: Bailliage de Jersey; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is an island and self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is 22 kilometres (14 mi) from the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy.

Always the same, as in character or degree; unvarying

The largest of the Channel Islands; population 91,900 (est. 2009); capital, St Helier.

Being the same as or consonant with another or others

A soft, plain-knitted fabric used for clothing.

A distinctive set of clothing intended to identify the members of a specific group

A shirt worn by an athlete, often displaying the name of the player, team, or sponsor.

To make (something) uniform.

A close-fitting knitted pullover shirt, jacket, or sweater.

To provide or dress with a uniform.

Often Jersey Any of a breed of fawn-colored dairy cattle developed on the island of Jersey and producing milk that is rich in butterfat.

Unvarying; all the same.

(countable) A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.

Consistent; conforming to one standard.

A shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype.

(mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence

(uncountable) A type of fabric knit

Composed of a single macromolecular species.

The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool.

(geometry) (of a polyhedron) That is isogonal and whose faces are regular polygons; (of an n-dimensional (n>3) polytope) that is isogonal and whose bounding (n-1)-dimensional facets are uniform polytopes.

A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet).

A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.

One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.

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A close-fitting pullover shirt

(police) A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).

A slightly elastic machine-knit fabric

(transitive) To clothe in a uniform.

Breed from the island of Jersey

Having always the same form, manner, or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics has been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay.

Of the same form with others; agreeing with each other; conforming to one rule or mode; consonant.

A dress of a particular style or fashion worn by persons in the same service or order by means of which they have a distinctive appearance; as, the uniform of the artillery, of the police, of the Freemasons, etc.

To clothe with a uniform; as, to uniform a company of soldiers.

To make conformable.

Clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification

Provide with uniforms;

Always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences;

The same throughout in structure or composition;

Not differentiated

Evenly spaced;