JET

jet, coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty

(adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

fountain, jet

(noun) an artificially produced flow of water

jet, jet plane, jet-propelled plane

(noun) an airplane powered by one or more jet engines

K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C

(noun) street names for ketamine

jet, squirt, spurt, spirt

(noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)

jet, blue jet, reverse lightning

(noun) atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward

jet

(noun) a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation

jet, gush

(verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; “Water jetted forth”; “flames were jetting out of the building”

jet

(verb) fly a jet plane

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

jet (plural jets)

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

A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.

(aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.

An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.

A turbine.

A rocket engine.

A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.

(physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.

(dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.

(printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

Verb

jet (third-person singular simple present jets, present participle jetting, simple past and past participle jetted)

(intransitive) To spray out of a container.

(transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.

(intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion

(intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around

To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.

To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet

(slang) To leave.

Adjective

jet (not comparable)

Propelled by turbine engines.

Etymology 2

Noun

jet (plural jets)

A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.

Hypernyms: lignite, mineraloid

(color) The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

Adjective

jet (not comparable)

Very dark black in colour.

Anagrams

• tej

Proper noun

Jet (countable and uncountable, plural Jet)

(uncountable) A town in Oklahoma.

(countable) A unisex given name.

Anagrams

• tej

Source: Wiktionary

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Jet, n.

Definition: Same as 2d Get. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Jet, n. Etym: [OF. jet, jayet, F. jaïet, jais, L. gagates, fr. Gr. [written also jeat, jayet.] (Min.)

Definition: A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber. Jet ant (Zoöl.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

Jet, n. Etym: [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. Abject, Ejaculate, Gist, Jess, Jut.]

1. A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.

2. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]

3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. Knight. Jet propeller (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.

– Jet pump, a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles.

Jet, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jetting.] Etym: [F. jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw. See 3d Jet, and cf. Jut.]

1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.] he jets under his advanced plumes! Shak. To jet upon a prince's right. Shak.

2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] Wiseman.

3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

Jet, v. t.

Definition: To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. A dozen angry models jetted steam. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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