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jet
/dʒɛt/
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What does jet mean?
noun
- A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
More meanings (24)
noun
- A turbine.
- A rocket engine.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
- 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.
- (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
- (dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
verb
- To spray out of a container.
- To spray with liquid from a container.
- To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
- To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
- To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
- To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- (slang) To leave; depart.
adjective
- Propelled by turbine engines.
- Very dark black in colour.
proper noun
- A town in Oklahoma.
- A male given name.
- Acronym of Journal of Evolution and Technology.
- (rare) A female given name.
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IPA pronunciation
/dʒɛt/
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Then at the appointed, at the acute, moment, the soprano voice, like a fountain jet, shot up into the light.
Two miles behind it a jet of white steam was travelling from the left to the right of the picture.
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The best authorities agree in condemning the direct jet, while rectal specialists regard it as one of their chief aids to income.
Then suddenly another sound became audible—a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle.
From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany.