I. ˈjet, usu -ed.+V noun
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Etymology: Middle English get, jet, from Middle French jaiet, geet, gest, from Latin gagates, from Greek gagatēs, from Gagas, river and ancient town in the district of Lycia in southern Asia Minor
1. : a very compact velvet-black mineral of the nature of coal that is often used for jewelry
2. : jet black
II. adjective
Etymology: Middle English get, from get, jet, n.
1. : made of jet
2. : of the color jet
III. intransitive verb
( jetted ; jetted ; jetting ; jets )
Etymology: Middle English jetten, perhaps from Middle French jeter to throw, but influenced in meaning by Latin jactare to throw, boast
1. obsolete : to walk with a haughty or pompous air : strut , swagger
how he jets under his advanced plumes — Shakespeare
when the stage of the world was hung with black they jetted up and down like proud tragedians — Thomas Dekker
2.
a. archaic : to walk along slowly : stroll
b. obsolete : to walk in a sprightly manner : caper , trip
3. : to move about very quickly : dart
hoped to see … the wingless squirrel jet from tree to tree — James Montgomery
IV. noun
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archaic : an artificial way of walking : hitch , swagger
the genteel trip and the agreeable jet as they are now practiced at the court of France — Eustace Budgell
V. verb
( jetted ; jetted ; jetting ; jets )
Etymology: Middle French jeter, literally, to throw, from Latin jactare to throw, shake, speak out, boast, from jactus, past participle of jacere to throw; akin to Greek hienai to send, Tocharian A ya- to make, do, Hittite ijami I make, I do
intransitive verb
1.
a. obsolete : intrude , encroach
insulting tyranny begins to jet upon the innocent and aweless throne — Shakespeare
b. : to project or jut prominently
the rock jetted out over the deep canyon
2. : to spout forth : emit a jet : gush , spurt
molten material from the bowels of earth jets up between sedimented water-laid rocks — Russell Lord
flame and smoke jetted from the sides of the five warships — Kenneth Roberts
transitive verb
1. : to make projections on (as a building) : cause to project
the second stories of the houses were jetted, shadowing the street from the sun
2. now dialect England : to throw (as a ball) with a jerk
3. : to emit in a stream : blow out : spout
while I waited … the other gun jetted smoke — Kenneth Roberts
jetted a powerful stream of water at the burning building
4.
a. : to place (as a pile or caisson) in the ground by means of a jet of water acting at the lower end
b.
(1) : to bore (as a well) by means of a high-pressure jet of air or water
(2) : to flush out the drillings from (a well) by means of a jet of water
5. : to apply an insecticide to (an animal) in small jets under pressure
VI. noun
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Etymology: Middle French, from jeter
1.
a.
(1) : a forceful rush of liquid, gas, or vapor through a narrow or restricted opening in spurts or in a continuous flow
trained the powerful jet of water on the fire
saw a practical use for these burning jets of gas escaping from the earth's fissures — Gardiner Symonds
(2) : a usually high-speed stream of fluid that is discharged from a nozzle or orifice in a body and that produces reaction forces tending to propel the body in the direction opposite to that of the discharge — see jet propulsion
b. : a nozzle for a jet of gas, water, or other fluid
a garden fountain with more than 200 jets — F.J.Taylor
c. : something issuing in or as if in a jet
sometimes the whole story is a jet of irony — H.M.Reynolds
talk poured from her in a brilliant jet — Time
2. dialect England : a large ladle
3. : a projection at the bottom of a piece of foundry type as it comes from the mold that is planed off in finishing — called also tail, tang
4.
a. : jet airplane
b. : jet engine
VII. transitive verb
( jetted ; jetted ; jetting ; jets )
: to travel by jet airplane
jetted to London to see the show — Newsweek
VIII. noun
( -s )
Etymology: probably alteration of gist
: the main point : gist
but … I don't see the jet of your scheme — R.B.Sheridan
IX. intransitive verb
: to move or progress by or as if by jet propulsion
X. noun
1. : a narrow stream of material (as plasma) emanating or appearing to emanate from a celestial object (as a radio galaxy)
2. : a momentary beam of subatomic particles emitted from the interaction of other usually high-energy particles