I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a jet engine
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the plane's powerful jet engines
a passenger plane/jet
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It was recently converted from a passenger plane to cargo use.
bubble jet printer
jet black literary (= completely black )
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She had shiny jet black hair, and skin as white as snow.
jet engine
jet lag
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I’m suffering from jet lag but I’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep.
jet propulsion
jet set
Jet Ski
jet stream
jet/inky black (= very dark )
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jet black hair
jumbo jet
jump jet
rocket/wind/nuclear/jet propulsion
suffering from jet lag
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I’m suffering from jet lag but I’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
jumbo
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The shuttle was then loaded atop a converted 747 jumbo jet and flown back to Kennedy.
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Meanwhile, those who observed the jumbo jet exploding say they still have vivid memories.
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That's the same as a full jumbo jet crashing at Heathrow every day of the week and two on Sunday.
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Flight attendant Lauren Holly takes the controls on a jumbo jet after a prisoner escapes and eliminates the crew.
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Bird strikes have become far more frequent since the jumbo jets were introduced in the late 1970's.
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S.-made Stinger anti-aircraft missile could have downed the jumbo jet .
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She became a pilot and now flies jumbo jets between Bali, Hawaii and Los Angeles.
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A couple of jumbo jets could land on the floor space that houses this bash.
military
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During the day four low-flying military jets had blasted down the Glen.
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The Hinkley Point site, for instance, lies in an area used extensively by low-flying military jets .
private
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He is also pledging his private jet and everything else his family owns.
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You needed the private jets in Washington.
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How can a private jet be cheaper than a train?
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McCain has made four campaign trips in Paxson's private jet in the past few months.
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Immediately after the gig Jon Bon Jovi flew back to London on the private jet he arrived in just seven hours earlier.
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And happiness is ... a romantic tycoon with his own private jet .
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He flies in a private jet from concert to concert.
regional
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Provost McDonald said last year BAe had moved the headquarters of its regional jet operation to Prestwick.
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In 1999, SkyWest, 25 % held by Delta Airlines, ordered 50 Bombardier regional jets .
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This was also a record for the world regional jet industry.
■ NOUN
aircraft
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Post-war development of parachutes acting as brakes on jet aircraft are also covered in this rarely written about subject.
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It also flies three routes in the Midwest, under contract to Delta and Northwest, using 70-seat jet aircraft .
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September 4: Pioneering jet aircraft .
airliner
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The plant produced the world's first jet airliner , the Comet.
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It is more akin to the toilet found on a modern jet airliner , with the addition of spring-loaded thigh restraints!
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Manufacturers of the world's quietest jet airliner the BAe 146.
business
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Lowest interior and exterior noise level of any high speed business jet .
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Inset A transatlantic corporate business jet .
engine
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It has been used successfully, for example in the design of jet engines .
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In fact the improvement statistics in our jet engine shops were even more remarkable.
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A jet engine can take up to six seconds to spool up.
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Besides the black boxes, this category includes the jet engines , the pilot escape system, and so on.
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When a resultant is radial, the body can take off, like a rocket or a jet engine .
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Cobalt is important in the jet engines of aeroplanes because it makes turbine blades resist high temperatures.
fighter
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Military experts think more than 50 fighter jets would be needed to enforce the zone.
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Even the simulated F-16 fighter jet you were piloting into a hostile zone near the Strait of Hormuz.
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Fast fighter jets -- many traveling within earshot of the sound barrier -- will headline the shows.
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The plan is also expected to call for cuts in fighter jet programs and two rounds of base closings.
fuel
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At different times during the war, reports came in of the need for jet fuel .
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He cited higher jet fuel costs.
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Police also found a quantity of jet fuel , sources said.
gas
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As he turned out the gas jet he whistled to himself.
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I had turned out the gas jet and did not have a match with which to relight it.
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The intense heat of being held over a gas jet will cause immediate and permanent discolouring.
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I was led down the dark hallway to a room in which a gas jet was burning.
jump
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It's playing host to a squadron of Harrier jump jets on a military excercise.
lag
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It's jet lag and it affects nearly everyone on long-haul flights.
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The symptoms of jet lag result from a temporary disruption of these rhythms.
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The first week is hell; jet lag and a sluggish nausea I can't explain.
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Beyond a quieter plane ride, NoiseBuster is said to lessen the effects of jet lag .
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Aromatherapy treatments can also help with problems such as jet lag .
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Of course, George may have had jet lag .
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Researchers are investigating its ability to induce sleep and combat jet lag .
passenger
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Read in studio Two passenger jets have been involved in a near-miss over Oxfordshire.
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The F-16s apparently were not warned about the passenger jet before they closed to investigate its presence.
pilot
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For fast jet pilots , a stint with the Red Arrows is the highlight of their careers.
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Travolta is a licensed jet pilot and owns a Learjet.
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A jet pilot will happily take off in weather that would ground micro-light pilots.
plane
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It may sound like an intermittent road drill combined with a jet plane .
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You can buy a jet plane and lease it to the airlines.
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It was beginning to dawn on him that getting on a jet plane wasn't like stealing a truck.
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I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.
propulsion
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Somewhere inside itself, the thing had a sort of jet propulsion .
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Both creatures can, like the nautilus, use jet propulsion on occasion.
set
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Daniela soave examines the growth of the good-cause jet set .
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Resorts: Cortina is international jet set , glamour and glitz.
ski
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He had also accepted the gift of a jet ski from a construction company seeking public works contracts.
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Immediately, bans on jet skis started being announced in most parts of the state.
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Why did it have the ride qualities of a jet ski ?
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Another solution has been to designate specific areas for jet ski use while banning them elsewhere.
stream
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The aircraft would have crossed this jet stream at a shallow angle which would have resulted in considerably reduced ground speed.
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You almost feel guilty paying attention to the jet stream of consciousness.
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The forecast issued at Keflavik did not mention this jet stream .
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El Nino also diverts the paths of the jet stream and storms.
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Recently the jet stream has retreated northward, meteorologists say, leaving the field undefended against those intrusive southern storms.
■ VERB
charter
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He left immediately for the airport, and chartered a jet .
fly
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She had never flown in a jet or stayed in a hotel or ridden in a chauffeured limousine.
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She became a pilot and now flies jumbo jets between Bali, Hawaii and Los Angeles.
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Simply flying jet fighters in those early days involved high risk.
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Applications to fly executive jets were rejected and an attempt to become a government air accident investigator failed.
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He flies in a private jet from concert to concert.
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But now there is a cheaper way for business travellers to fly on a private jet .
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The Marines will be doing more than just flying jets and helicopters from the concrete runways.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the jet set
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a jet fighter
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strong jets of water
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a terrifying two minutes the crew overpowered Mukonyi, handcuffed him, and regained control of the jet .
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An imperial eagle lectern carved in jet supported upon its open black wings a huge, chained copy of the Codex Astartes.
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And happiness is ... a romantic tycoon with his own private jet .
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Curiously, how stars produce jets is an open question.
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Dan Vandenberg witnessed jets in a more typical role.
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He is also pledging his private jet and everything else his family owns.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
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So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes.
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That means a potential 200,000 customers will be jetting off to the States.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Martinez greeted supporters in Tampa, then jetted to Miami.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Within a few minutes the atmosphere in the bay was normal, and Ace was jetting towards the shuttle's cabin door.