jet

nounverbadjectivenounadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

//ˈd͡ʒɛt//

A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.

noun

1
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
In the floor of the valley the line passes hills of fantastic shape, like sleeping camels and inverted washbasins, and you can see the beautiful lakes Naivasha and Elementeita; at Eburru jets of steam spurt out of the ground.
2
A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
3
A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
One of the other two nations to operate the F-35B, the United Kingdom, has had US versions of the jet operating off its HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier.
“Rather than writing off both jets as a loss … teams made a bold decision in 2022 to remove the nose from AF-27 and put it onto AF-211 to maximize savings and add back an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report from the F-35 JPO said.
4
An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion. A turbine.
5
An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion. A rocket engine.
6
A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
7
A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
8
datedDrift; scope; range, as of an argument.
9
datedThe sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-kt Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin iactus Vulgar Latin *iectus Old French get French jetbor. English jet Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, *jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.

verb

1
To spray out of a container.
2
To spray with liquid from a container.
Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
3
To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
4
To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
5
To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
The Town has the outer Branch of the River behind it, and the Harbour before it, jetting into which latter are cloſe Keys for the weighing and receiving of Cuſtomage on Merchandize, and for the meeting and conferring of Merchants and Traders.
And last year, at 5:26 a.m. on August 10, a whole mountainside toppled into the tideline of the shrunken Sawyer Glacier, not far from the Alaskan capital, Juneau. The impact jetted a tsunami a staggering 500 meters up the walls of the fjord.
6
To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous It is to jet upon a prince’s right?
Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!
7
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
8
To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
The cure is to jet the carburetor excessively rich so that the mixture will be correct at the top end, but this richens the curve throughout the RPM range.
9
slangTo leave; depart.
Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
Pimp prolly jetted before the girl hit the ground good, and if Smoove was still standing on the porch when his brother got downstairs, he'd taken off with him.

adjective

1
Propelled by turbine engines.
jet airplane

noun

1
A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.
2
The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

Etymology

From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.

adjective

1
Very dark black in colour.
All the direct blacks require working in strong baths to give anything like black shades; they all have, more or less, a bluish tone, which can be changed to a jetter shade by the addition of a yellow or green dye in small proportions, which has been done in one of the recipes given above.
She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.

noun

1
an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.

Etymology

Forms

plural: jets
comparative: jetter, more jet
superlative: jettest, most jet
past tense: jetted
past participle: jetted
present participle: jetting
third person singular: jets

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jet · A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.

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