Jet

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dÊ’É›t/
• Rhymes: -É›t

From French jet, Old French get, giet, Latin iactus ("a throwing, a throw"), from iacere ("to throw"). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut.

Full definition of jet

Noun

1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
2. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
3. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
1. A turbine.
2. A rocket engine.
5. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
6. (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
7. (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
8. (printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
2. (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
3. (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
4. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
5. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
• ShakespeareHe jets under his advanced plumes.
• Shakespeareto jet upon a prince's right
6. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.

Adjective

1. Propelled by turbine engines.jet airplane

From Old French
French jet, jayet, Latin gagates after Ancient Greek Γαγάτης, from Γάγας (Gagas, "a town and river in Lycia").

Noun

1. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
2. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

Adjective

1. Very dark black in colour.
• 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 23:She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.

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