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PRONUNCIATION OF JACKKNIFE

jackknife  [ˈdʒækˌnaɪf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JACKKNIFE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Jackknife is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb jackknife in English.

WHAT DOES JACKKNIFE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Jackknife

Jackknife may refer to: ▪ Jackknife, pocket knife ▪ Jacknife, 1989 American film ▪ Jackknife, jackknife hold, a pinning move in wrestling ▪ Jackknife, kicking move involving 540-degree rotation ▪ Jackknife, resampling technique in statistics ▪ Jackknife, a rock band, once compared to Papa Salami and the Five Meat Five ▪ Jackknife, jackknife clam ▪ Jackknife, a character from Superjail! ▪ "Jack Knife", an episode of NCIS. ▪ Jackknife exercise, an abdominal exercise...

Definition of jackknife in the English dictionary

The first definition of jackknife in the dictionary is a knife with the blade pivoted to fold into a recess in the handle. Other definition of jackknife is a former name for a type of dive in which the diver bends at the waist in midair, with his legs straight and his hands touching his feet, finally straightening out and entering the water headfirst: forward pike dive. Jackknife is also to go out of control in such a way that the trailer swings round at an angle to the cab.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO JACKKNIFE

PRESENT

Present
I jackknife
you jackknife
he/she/it jackknifes
we jackknife
you jackknife
they jackknife
Present continuous
I am jackknifing
you are jackknifing
he/she/it is jackknifing
we are jackknifing
you are jackknifing
they are jackknifing
Present perfect
I have jackknifed
you have jackknifed
he/she/it has jackknifed
we have jackknifed
you have jackknifed
they have jackknifed
Present perfect continuous
I have been jackknifing
you have been jackknifing
he/she/it has been jackknifing
we have been jackknifing
you have been jackknifing
they have been jackknifing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I jackknifed
you jackknifed
he/she/it jackknifed
we jackknifed
you jackknifed
they jackknifed
Past continuous
I was jackknifing
you were jackknifing
he/she/it was jackknifing
we were jackknifing
you were jackknifing
they were jackknifing
Past perfect
I had jackknifed
you had jackknifed
he/she/it had jackknifed
we had jackknifed
you had jackknifed
they had jackknifed
Past perfect continuous
I had been jackknifing
you had been jackknifing
he/she/it had been jackknifing
we had been jackknifing
you had been jackknifing
they had been jackknifing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will jackknife
you will jackknife
he/she/it will jackknife
we will jackknife
you will jackknife
they will jackknife
Future continuous
I will be jackknifing
you will be jackknifing
he/she/it will be jackknifing
we will be jackknifing
you will be jackknifing
they will be jackknifing
Future perfect
I will have jackknifed
you will have jackknifed
he/she/it will have jackknifed
we will have jackknifed
you will have jackknifed
they will have jackknifed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been jackknifing
you will have been jackknifing
he/she/it will have been jackknifing
we will have been jackknifing
you will have been jackknifing
they will have been jackknifing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would jackknife
you would jackknife
he/she/it would jackknife
we would jackknife
you would jackknife
they would jackknife
Conditional continuous
I would be jackknifing
you would be jackknifing
he/she/it would be jackknifing
we would be jackknifing
you would be jackknifing
they would be jackknifing
Conditional perfect
I would have jackknife
you would have jackknife
he/she/it would have jackknife
we would have jackknife
you would have jackknife
they would have jackknife
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been jackknifing
you would have been jackknifing
he/she/it would have been jackknifing
we would have been jackknifing
you would have been jackknifing
they would have been jackknifing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you jackknife
we let´s jackknife
you jackknife
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to jackknife
Past participle
jackknifed
Present Participle
jackknifing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH JACKKNIFE


breadknife
ˈbrednaɪf
drawknife
ˈdrɔːˌnaɪf
fife
faɪf
housewife
ˈhaʊsˌwaɪf
kaif
kaɪf
knife
naɪf
life
laɪf
long-life
ˈlɒŋlaɪf
midwife
ˈmɪdˌwaɪf
nife
naɪf
nightlife
ˈnaɪtˌlaɪf
paperknife
ˈpeɪpəˌnaɪf
penknife
ˈpɛnˌnaɪf
pocketknife
ˈpɒkɪtˌnaɪf
real-life
ˌriːlˈlaɪf
still-life
stɪl laɪf
strife
straɪf
wife
waɪf
wildlife
ˈwaɪldˌlaɪf
Yellowknife
ˈjɛləʊˌnaɪf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JACKKNIFE

jacket potato
jacket-like
jacketed
jacketless
jackfish
jackfruit
jackhammer
Jackie
Jackie-Jackie
Jackies
jackknives
jackleg
jacklight
Jacklin
jackling
jackman
jackpot
jackpot winning ticket
jackroll
jacks

WORDS THAT END LIKE JACKKNIFE

bowie knife
butter knife
carving knife
case knife
clasp knife
combat knife
craft knife
dinner knife
fish knife
fruit knife
gamma knife
hunting knife
palette knife
putty knife
sheath knife
Stanley knife
steak knife
Swiss Army knife
trench knife
twist the knife
under the knife

Synonyms and antonyms of jackknife in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «jackknife» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JACKKNIFE

Find out the translation of jackknife to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of jackknife from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «jackknife» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

折刀
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

jackknife
570 millions of speakers

English

jackknife
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

jackknife
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكباسة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

складной нож
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

canivete
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

jackknife
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

jackknife
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jackknife
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Klappmesser
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ジャックナイフ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잭나이프
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jackknife
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dao xếp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

jackknife
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जॅकनएफ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sustalı çakı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

coltello
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

scyzoryk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

складаний ніж
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jackknife
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

jackknife
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

jackknife
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fällkniv
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

knytnings
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of jackknife

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JACKKNIFE»

The term «jackknife» is regularly used and occupies the 104.743 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JACKKNIFE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about jackknife

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JACKKNIFE»

Discover the use of jackknife in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to jackknife and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Jackknife
No one captures the true spirit of America like William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone.
William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, 2008
2
The Jackknife and Bootstrap
This book provides a systematic introduction to the theory of the jackknife, bootstrap and other resampling methods that have been developed in the last twenty years.
Jun Shao, Dongsheng Tu, 2012
3
The Jackknife, the Bootstrap, and Other Resampling Plans
The jackknife and the bootstrap are nonparametric methods for assessing the errors in a statistical estimation problem.
Bradley Efron, 1982
4
Adaptive Jackknife Estimators for Stochastic Programming
Here by applying the usual jackknife estimator, i.e., with q = 1, we have actually increased the bias in magnitude and reversed the sign of the bias. If we choose q = 2 then EJQ2 = 0. For Examples 2 and 3, the standard jackknife estimators, JQ1,  ...
Amit Partani, 2007
5
Encyclopedia of Environmetrics
[9] Fay, R.E. (1985). A jackknife chi-square test for complex samples. Journal of the American Statistical Association 80. 148-157. |10] Fox. T.. Hinkley. D.V. & Larntz. K. (1980). Jackknifing in nonlinear regression, Technometrics 22, 123- 129.
Abdel H. El-Shaarawi, Walter W. Piegorsch, 2001
6
Jackknife & Light
The poems of Jackknife & Light (which was a finalist in the National Poetry Series of 1996) give their meanings up slowly, with a languorous precision and care.
Michelle Murphy, 1998
7
Statistical Demography and Forecasting
That method parallels the jackknife treatment in Section 8.1. One can also, however, choose the subsamples with multi-stage sampling; Sitter (1992, 761- 764) and Rao and Wu (1988, 239) provide details for two-stage sampling. The simplest ...
Juha Alho, Bruce Spencer, 2005
8
Introduction to Variance Estimation
CHAPTER. 4. The. Jackknife. Method. 4.1. Introduction. In Chapters 2 and 3, we discussed variance estimating techniques based on random groups and balanced half-samples. Both of these methods are members of the class of variance ...
Kirk Wolter, 2007
9
Automated Stratigraphic Correlation
Use of all coefficients results in a jackknife spline which interpolates between these successive values. For example, Table 9.7 shows the values si, q,' and s( _q,-) for the splinecurve of Figure 9.13a. The corresponding jackknife spline based ...
F.P. Agterberg, 1990
10
Statistical Modeling of the National Assessment of ...
200) NAEP's jackknife variance estimator is designed for the situation where the first-stage units, or appropriate aggregates of them, are paired within strata. It estimates the sampling variability of any statistic as the sum of components of ...
Murray Aitkin, Irit Aitkin, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JACKKNIFE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term jackknife is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Rattlesnake encounter reported in West Riverside neighborhood
It struck, and its fangs got caught on a jackknife he had in his back pocket, flailing there as the young boy tried to shake it off. “I was pretty sick,” ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
2
Carriage horse collapses on Charleston street after scare from truck …
A noise from a cement truck made the horse jump, causing the carriage to jackknife and the horse to sit down and then collapse on his side, ... «Charleston Post Courier, Jul 15»
3
4 die in 3 crashes on Arkansas roads
The collision also caused the truck to leave the road, jackknife and hit trees. At the time of the crash, the weather was clear and roads were dry. «Northwest Arkansas News, Jul 15»
4
The quiet carver: Parkman man making the art he enjoys - Feature …
And I would take small sticks and a jackknife, and I was going to try to make totem poles. My mother would end up throwing them in the stove,” ... «The Sheridan Press, Jul 15»
5
Review: Mighty Mighty Bosstones return to NYC's Webster Hall …
... a packed house before kicking off their 28 song set with "The Old School Off the Bright" from their 2002 studio album A Jackknife to a Swan. «Examiner.com, Jul 15»
6
City worker says 'I was just doing my job' - Story | Savannah | WJCL …
(WJCL) -- Travis Dawn says seeing a truck jackknife in front of him was like something out of a movie. But after safely stopping, and checking on ... «WJCL News, Jul 15»
7
Movie Capsules: What's Showing
... as if they were a trucker's Slim Jims: something to be ingested on the go as necessary, to help fuel the ride until the next collision, jackknife or hijacking. «Memphis Commercial Appeal, Jul 15»
8
Debt: A rite of passage into adulthood
A child with a jackknife can be a danger to himself or herself. An adult with a credit card can be just as dangerous. It is wise to treat a credit card ... «Traverse City Record Eagle, Jul 15»
9
The Ground under Our Feet
Which is to say I bought some tins of sardines, filled used milk jugs with tap water, put a jackknife and a headlamp in a small backpack, and ... «Tricycle, Jul 15»
10
Former Marblehead mayor killed in crash
It proceeded to jackknife and strike the bus, they said. Mr. Greenwood was taken to Wood County Hospital for minor injuries. Mr. Gronka, Mr. «Toledo Blade, Jul 15»

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