"life jacket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: life jackets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} life jacket (plural life jackets)
  1. an article of protective clothing that is designed to keep the wearer's head floating above the surface of the water. Wikipedia link: lifejacket Categories (topical): Clothing Synonyms: life vest, lifejacket, life-jacket Related terms: buoyancy aid, Mae West Translations (An article of protective clothing): سُتْرَة نَجَاة (sutrat najāh) [feminine] (Arabic), صِدَار نَجَاة (ṣidār najāh) [masculine] (Arabic), armilla salvavides [feminine] (Catalan), 救生衣 (jiùshēngyī) (Chinese Mandarin), plovací vesta [feminine] (Czech), reddingsvest [neuter] (Dutch), pelastusliivi (Finnish), gilet de sauvetage [masculine] (French), Rettungsweste [feminine] (German), Schwimmweste [feminine] (German), रक्षा जैकेट (rakṣā-jaikeṭ) (Hindi), björgunarvesti [neuter] (Icelandic), seaicéad tarrthála [masculine] (Irish), 救命胴衣 (kyūmeidōi) (alt: きゅうめいどうい) (Japanese), ライフジャケット (raifujaketto) (Japanese), kahu kautere (Maori), koti whakaora (Maori), hākete whakaora (Maori), аврах хантааз (avrax xantaaz) (Mongolian), câsaque dé sauveté [Jersey, feminine] (Norman), redningsvest [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), redningsvest [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), جلیقه نجات (jeliqe-ye nejât) (Persian), kapok [masculine] (Polish), colete salva-vidas [masculine] (Portuguese), спаса́тельный жиле́т (spasátelʹnyj žilét) [masculine] (Russian), chaleco salvavidas [masculine] (Spanish), salvavidas [masculine] (Spanish), flytväst (Swedish), räddningsväst (Swedish), حفاظتی جیکٹ (hifāzatī-jaikiṭ) (Urdu), بچاؤ کی کمری (baćāo-kī-kamrī) (Urdu), صدری نجات (sadrī-ye-najāt) (Urdu), siaced fywyd [feminine] (Welsh), siacedi bywyd [feminine, plural] (Welsh), siaced achub [feminine] (Welsh), ẹ̀wù amúniléfòó (Yoruba)

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          "code": "fi",
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          "code": "ga",
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          "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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          "code": "fa",
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          "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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          "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
          "word": "räddningsväst"
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          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "hifāzatī-jaikiṭ",
          "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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          "roman": "baćāo-kī-kamrī",
          "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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          "code": "ur",
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          "roman": "sadrī-ye-najāt",
          "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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          "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "code": "ar",
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      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "code": "ga",
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      "lang": "Persian",
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      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "спаса́тельный жиле́т"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "word": "salvavidas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
      "word": "flytväst"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
      "word": "räddningsväst"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "hifāzatī-jaikiṭ",
      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
      "word": "حفاظتی جیکٹ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "baćāo-kī-kamrī",
      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
      "word": "بچاؤ کی کمری"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "sadrī-ye-najāt",
      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
      "word": "صدری نجات"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
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      "word": "siacedi bywyd"
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    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "siaced achub"
    },
    {
      "code": "yo",
      "lang": "Yoruba",
      "sense": "An article of protective clothing",
      "word": "ẹ̀wù amúniléfòó"
    }
  ],
  "word": "life jacket"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.