jet
/ˈd͡ʒɛt/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun
Forms jets jetting jetted jetter jettest jeat jess
- noun A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- noun A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- noun (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
- noun A turbine.
- noun A rocket engine.
- noun A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- noun (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- noun (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
- verb (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
- verb (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container. “Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.”
- verb (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- verb (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- verb To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
- verb To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
- verb To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
- verb To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- adjective Propelled by turbine engines.
- noun (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- noun The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
- adjective Very dark black in colour.
Synonyms
jet-black jetty jet plane jet-propelled plane squirt spurt spirt blue jet reverse lightning K super acid special K honey oil green cat valium super C fountain gush coal-black pitchy sooty
Etymology
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.
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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Same as 2d Get. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
- noun Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]
Etymology [OF. jet, jayet, F. jaïet, jais, L. gagates, fr. Gr. [written also jeat, jayet.]
Etymology [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. Abject, Ejaculate, Gist, Jess, Jut.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “jet”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details