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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun jet has 6 senses
- jet(n = noun.artifact) jet plane, jet-propelled plane - an airplane powered by one or more jet engines; Array is a kind of aeroplane, airplane, plane
- jet(n = noun.event) spirt, spurt, squirt - the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid); Array is a kind of discharge, outpouring, run
- jet(n = noun.substance) Array - a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation; Array is a kind of brown coal, lignite, wood coal
- jet(n = noun.phenomenon) blue jet, reverse lightning - atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward; Array is a kind of atmospheric electricity
- jet(n = noun.artifact) cat valium, green, honey oil, k, special k, super acid, super c - street names for ketamine; Array is a kind of ketalar, ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride
- jet(n = noun.artifact) fountain - an artificially produced flow of water; Array is a kind of flow, flowing
has particulars: fan-jet, fanjet, turbofan, turbojet, jetliner, jumbo jet, jumbojet, twinjet
has parts: jet engine
Derived form verb jet2
has particulars: spray, spritz
Derived form verb jet1
Derived form verb jet1
Verb jet has 2 senses
- jet(v = verb.contact) gush - issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" is one way to course, feed, flow, run
- jet(v = verb.motion) Array - fly a jet plane; Array is one way to aviate, fly, pilot
Derived forms noun jet6, noun jet2
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
Derived form noun jet1
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Adjective jet has 1 sense
- jet(s = adj.all) coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty - of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
jet, n.
Same as 2d Get. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
jet, n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. jaïet, jais, L. gagates, fr. Gr. ; -- so called from or , a town and river in Lycia.].
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 . [1913 Webster]
jet, n. [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. Abject, Ejaculate, Gist, Jess, Jut.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [1913 Webster]
- The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. Knight. [1913 Webster]
- To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [1913 Webster]" he jets under his advanced plumes!" [1913 Webster]"To jet upon a prince's right." [1913 Webster]
- To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. Wiseman. [1913 Webster]
- To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out. [1913 Webster]
jet, v. t.
To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. [1913 Webster]
"A dozen angry models jetted steam."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
jet, n. & v.
--n.
1 a stream of water, steam, gas, flame, etc. shot out esp. from a small opening.
2 a spout or nozzle for emitting water etc. in this way.
3 a a jet engine. b an aircraft powered by one or more jet engines.
--v. (jetted, jetting)
1 intr. spurt out in jets.
2 tr. & intr. colloq. send or travel by jet plane.
--n.
1 a stream of water, steam, gas, flame, etc. shot out esp. from a small opening.
2 a spout or nozzle for emitting water etc. in this way.
3 a a jet engine. b an aircraft powered by one or more jet engines.
--v. (jetted, jetting)
1 intr. spurt out in jets.
2 tr. & intr. colloq. send or travel by jet plane.
Idiom
jet engine an engine using jet propulsion for forward thrust, esp. of an aircraft. jet lag extreme tiredness and other bodily effects felt after a long flight involving marked differences of local time. jet-propelled
1 having jet propulsion.
2 (of a person etc.) very fast. jet propulsion propulsion by the backward ejection of a high-speed jet of gas etc. jet set colloq. wealthy people frequently travelling by air, esp. for pleasure. jet-setter colloq. a member of the jet set.
jet stream
1 a narrow current of very strong winds encircling the globe several miles above the earth.
2 the stream from a jet engine.
1 having jet propulsion.
2 (of a person etc.) very fast. jet propulsion propulsion by the backward ejection of a high-speed jet of gas etc. jet set colloq. wealthy people frequently travelling by air, esp. for pleasure. jet-setter colloq. a member of the jet set.
jet stream
1 a narrow current of very strong winds encircling the globe several miles above the earth.
2 the stream from a jet engine.
jet, n.
1 a a hard black variety of lignite capable of being carved and highly polished. b (attrib.) made of this.
2 (in full jet-black) a deep glossy black colour.
1 a a hard black variety of lignite capable of being carved and highly polished. b (attrib.) made of this.
2 (in full jet-black) a deep glossy black colour.
Etymology
ME f. AF geet, OF jaiet f. L gagates f. Gk gagates f. Gagai in Asia Minor
THESAURUS
jet
Jet Liner, anabasis, ascension, ascent, black, blowtorch, business jet, charcoal, clamber, climb, climbing, coal, crow, ebon, ebony, elevation, escalade, fountain, gush, gyring up, increase, ink, inky, jet plane, jetty, jump, leap, levitation, mount, mounting, multi-jet, night, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pulse-jet, ramjet, raven, rise, rising, rocketing up, sable, saltation, shooting up, single-jet, sloe, smoke, smut, soaring, soot, spout, spring, sprit, spritz, spurt, surge, tailless jet, takeoff, taking off, tar, turbojet, twin-jet, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, zoomingROGET THESAURUS
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Navigation
VB sail, put to sea, take ship, get under way, set sail, spread sail, spread canvas, gather way, have way on, make sail, carry sail, plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean, walk the waters, navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge, drift, course, cruise, coast, hug the shore, hug the land, circumnavigate, ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam, swim, float, buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer, dive, wade, fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket, take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight, wing one's flight, wing one's way, aviate, parachute, jump, glide.River
N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.VB flow, run, meander, gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue, drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate, stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash, guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate, ooze, flow out, rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks, pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in, mizzle, flow into, fall into, open into, drain into, discharge itself, disembogue, pour, pour out, shower down, irrigate, drench, spill, splash, stanch, dam, up, obstruct.
Blackness
N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.
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