What does "jet" mean?
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
Jet
/ˈd͡ʒɛt/ adj, name, noun, verb, slang
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- Grammar: jet is listed as adj, name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: aeroplane, aircraft, airlift, airplane.
- Useful contrasts: absorb, bright, calm.
- Usage evidence: Whenever I go abroad, I suffer from jet lag and diarrhea.
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Definitions
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 hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery. countable, uncountable
"There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat."
- 3 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.
- 4 an artificially produced flow of water wordnet
- 5 A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
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- 6 The colour of jet coal, deep grey. countable, uncountable
- 7 an airplane powered by one or more jet engines wordnet
- 8 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."
- 9 street names for ketamine wordnet
- 10 An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.; A turbine.
- 11 the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) wordnet
- 12 An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.; A rocket engine.
- 13 atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward wordnet
- 14 A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- 15 a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation wordnet
- 16 A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- 17 Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. dated
- 18 The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. dated
Verb
- 1 To spray out of a container. intransitive
- 2 issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth wordnet
- 3 To spray with liquid from a container. transitive
"Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals."
- 4 fly a jet plane wordnet
- 5 To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion intransitive
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- 6 To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around intransitive
- 7 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."
- 8 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?"
- 9 To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
"1719, Richard Wiseman, Serjeant-Chirurgeon to King Charles II, Eight Chirurgical Treatises, London: B. Tooke et al., 5th edition, Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 4, p. 78, A Lady was wounded down the whole Length of the Forehead to the Nose […] It happened to her travelling in a Hackney-Coach, upon the jetting whereof she was thrown out of the hinder Seat against a Bar of Iron in the forepart of the Coach."
- 10 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."
- 11 To leave; depart. intransitive, slang
"Gotta jet. See you tomorrow."
Adjective
- 1 Propelled by turbine engines. not-comparable
"jet airplane"
- 2 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."
Adjective
- 1 of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A town in Oklahoma. uncountable
- 2 Acronym of Journal of Evolution and Technology. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 3 A male given name. countable
- 4 A female given name. countable, rare
Example
"Whenever I go abroad, I suffer from jet lag and diarrhea."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "jet"?
Common synonyms include: aeroplane, aircraft, airlift, airplane, alabaster, anabasis.
How do you use "jet" in a sentence?
Whenever I go abroad, I suffer from jet lag and diarrhea.
How do you pronounce "jet"?
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛt/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
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.
Etymology 3
From French jet.