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JETTED
JET
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
Verb
jetted
simple past tense and past participle of jet
Source: Wiktionary
JET
Jet, n.
Definition: Same as 2d Get. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Jet, n. Etym: [OF. jet, jayet, F. jaĂŻet, 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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