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jet¹
- /ˈd͡ʒɛt/
Rhymes with -ɛt
Where it comes from
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.
noun jets
- 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.
- A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- 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.
- A turbine.
- A rocket engine.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
- The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
verb jets · jetting · jetted
- To spray out of a container.
- To spray with liquid from a container. Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
- To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- 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.
- 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?
- 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 je
- 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.
- To leave; depart. Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
adjective
- Propelled by turbine engines. jet airplane
jet²
- /ˈd͡ʒɛt/
Rhymes with -ɛt
Where it comes from
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.
noun jets · jeat · jess
- 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.
- The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
adjective jetter · more jet · jettest · most jet
- 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.
jet³
- /ˈd͡ʒɛt/
Rhymes with -ɛt
noun jets
- 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.
Jet⁴
proper noun Jets
- A town in Oklahoma.
- A male given name.
- A female given name.
JET⁵
proper noun
- Acronym of Journal of Evolution and Technology
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: jet plane, fountain, pitchy, jet-black, gush, colorless, achromatic, sooty, spurt, squirt, spirt, coal-black, jet-propelled plane, aircraft, helicopter, aeroplane
Translations
Every language
noun stream of fluid
| Español | chorro, chorreón, chorretada, chorretón, manguerazo |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 噴射 funsha, 射出 shashutsu |
| हिन्दी | प्रवाह pravāh |
| Português | jato |
| Français | jet |
| Deutsch | Strahl |
| Italiano | getto |
| Română | jet |
| Русский | струя́ strujá |
| עברית | סִילוֹן silón |
noun engine
| Español | turborreactor |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 제트 엔진 jeteu enjin |
| 日本語 | ジェットエンジン jettoenjin |
| 中文 | 喷气发动机 pēn qì fā dòng jī |
| Kiswahili | mtambo |
| Română | motor cu reacție |
| Русский | реакти́вный дви́гатель reaktívnyj dvígatelʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | động cơ phản lực |
| العربية | مُحَرِّك نَفَّاث muḥarrik naffāṯ |
| עברית | מנוע סילון mnv sylvn |
noun spout or nozzle
| Português | bocal |
|---|---|
| Français | gicleur |
| Română | duză, ajutaj |
| Русский | жиклёр žikljór, па́трубок pátrubok, форсу́нка forsúnka |
verb to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt
| Español | chorrear |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 쏟아지다 ssodajida, 쏟다 ssotda |
| 日本語 | 噴出 funshutsu suru |
| 中文 | 噴出 /喷出 pēnchū, 噴 /喷 |
| Português | jorrar |
| Français | jaillir |
| Deutsch | spritzen |
| Italiano | zampillare |
| Ελληνικά | αναβλύζω anavlýzo |
| Română | țâşni |
| Русский | бры́згать brýzgatʹ, выбра́сывать vybrásyvatʹ, вы́бросить výbrositʹ |
| العربية | دفق |
| עברית | קָלַח qalákh |
verb to travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
| Deutsch | jetten |
|---|
adj propelled by turbine engines
| Español | a chorro, a propulsión, a reacción |
|---|---|
| Kiswahili | rafadha |
| Français | à réaction |
| Italiano | a reazione |
| Ελληνικά | αεριωθούμενος aeriothoúmenos |
| Română | cu reacție |
| Русский | реакти́вный reaktívnyj |
noun coal
| Español | azabache |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 黒玉 kurotama, 貝褐炭 baikatsutan |
| Português | azeviche |
| Français | jais |
| Deutsch | Gagat, Jett |
| Italiano | giaietto |
| Română | jais, gagat |
| Русский | гага́т gagát |
noun colour
| Español | azabache |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 漆黒 shikkoku |
| Français | jais, noir de jais |
adj colour
| Español | azabache |
|---|
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