jet

noun
/ˈd͡ʒɛt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *(H)ih₁kyeti Proto-Italic *jīkjō Proto-Italic *jakjōder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin iactus Vulgar Latin *iectus Old French get French jetbor. English 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.

  1. derived from Γαγάτης
  2. derived from gagātēs
  3. derived from jayet
  4. inherited from get

Definitions

  1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an…

    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 spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.

  3. 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.
    • “Rather than writing off both jets as a loss … teams made a bold decision in 2022 to remove the nose from AF-27 and put it onto AF-211 to maximize savings and add back an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report from the F-35 JPO said.
  4. + 23 more definitions
    1. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.

    2. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.

    3. A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or…

      A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.

    4. Drift

      Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.

    5. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

    6. To spray out of a container.

    7. To spray with liquid from a container.

      • Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
    8. To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion

    9. To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around

    10. To shoot forward or out

      To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

    11. To strut

      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?
      • Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!
    12. To jerk

      To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.

    13. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor

      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.
    14. To leave

      To leave; depart.

      • Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
      • 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.
    15. Propelled by turbine engines.

      • jet airplane
    16. 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.
    17. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

    18. Very dark black in colour.

      • She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.
    19. an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor…

      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.

    20. A town in Oklahoma.

    21. A male given name.

    22. A female given name.

    23. Acronym of Journal of Evolution and Technology.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for jet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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