jet

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See also: Jet, JET, and jeț

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

A MiG-17 jet.

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

jet (plural jets)

  1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
    • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
      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 spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
  3. (aviation) 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.
  6. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
  7. (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
  8. (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
  9. (printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.[1]
Derived terms
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Verb

jet (third-person singular simple present jets, present participle jetting, simple past and past participle jetted)

  1. (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
  2. (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
    Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
  3. (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
  4. (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
  5. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
    • 1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Captain Bartho[lomew] Roberts, and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, page 214:
      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.
  6. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
  7. 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,[1]
      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.
  8. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
    • 1970, Bill Fisher, How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines‎[2], page 30:
      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.
  9. (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
    Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
    • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 106:
      Pimp prolly jetted before the girl hit the ground good, and if Smoove was still standing on the porch when his brother got downstairs, he'd taken off with him.
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Adjective

jet (not comparable)

  1. Propelled by turbine engines.
    jet airplane
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Etymology 2

A small (about 15mm long) sample of jet.

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

jet (countable and uncountable, plural jets)

  2. (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
    Hypernyms: lignite, mineraloid
    • 1735, [John Barrow], “JEAT”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume II (I–S), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:
      There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.
  3. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
    jet:  
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → German: Jett
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Adjective

jet (comparative jetter or more jet, superlative jettest or most jet)

  1. Very dark black in colour.
    Synonym: jet-black
    • 1901, Franklin Beech, The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student:
      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.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 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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See also

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Jet”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

Anagrams

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German iowiht, from io (“always”) + wiht (“thing”) << Proto-West Germanic *wihti.

Cognate with Middle Dutch iewet, iet (whence Limburgish get, contemporary Dutch iets), English aught.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

jet (indefinite)

  1. (Ripuarian, northernmost Moselle Franconian) something; anything
    Luur ens, ich hann der jet metjebraht.
    Look, I’ve brought you something.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech jěti, from Proto-Slavic *ěxati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

jet impf

  1. to ride
  2. to go (by vehicle)

Usage notes

Jet is in the class of Czech concrete verbs. Its counterpart, jezdit, is an abstract verb.

Conjugation

Conjugation
Infinitive jet, jeti Active adjective jedoucí
Verbal noun jetí Passive adjective jetý
Present forms indicative imperative
singular plural singular plural
1st person jedu jedeme — jeďme
2nd person jedeš jedete jeď jeďte
3rd person jede jedou — —
Future forms
singular
plural
1st personpojedupojedeme
2nd personpojedešpojedete
3rd personpojedepojedou
Participles Past participles Passive participles
singular plural singular plural
masculine animate jel jeli jet jeti
masculine inanimate jely jety
feminine jela jeta
neuter jelo jela jeto jeta
Transgressives present past
masculine singular jeda —
feminine + neuter singular jedouc —
plural jedouce —

Antonyms

Derived terms

verbs

See also

References

  1. ^ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “jet”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda

Further reading

  • “jeti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “jeti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “jet”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French get, giet, from a Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, an alteration of Latin iactus (“a throwing, throw”).

Pronunciation

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

  1. throw
  2. spurt, spout, jet
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: jet

Further reading

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English jet (airplane).

Pronunciation

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

  1. jet (airplane)

Further reading

Friulian

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

  1. bed

Ingrian

Etymology

From a contamination of jot and etti.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

jet

  1. (+ indicative) that
  2. (+ 1st infinitive) in order to

Synonyms

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 104

Marshallese

Pronunciation

Determiner

jet

  1. few, a few others; several
  2. some

Verb

jet

  1. spin

References

Middle English

Noun

jet

  1. Alternative form of get (“jet”)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin iactus.

Noun

jet

  1. throw

Descendants

  • Anglo-Norman: jet
  • French: jet
    • → English: jet

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French jet.

Noun

jet n (plural jeturi)

  1. jet (of a gas of liquid)

Declension

Declension of jet
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) jet jetul (niște) jeturi jeturile
genitive/dative (unui) jet jetului (unor) jeturi jeturilor
vocative jetule jeturilor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jet.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝet/ [ˈɟ͡ʝet̪]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃet/ [ˈʃet̪]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒet/ [ˈʒet̪]

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

  1. jet

Further reading


Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English jet

Pronunciation

Noun

jet (definite accusative jeti, plural jetler)

  1. jet

Tyap

Pronunciation

Noun

jet (plural jét)

  1. cricket
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