jet

10 definitions found

jet - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jet \Jet\, n. [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a
     throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. Abject, Ejaculate,
     Gist, Jess, Jut.]
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     1. 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.
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     2. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]
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     3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type
        is cold. --Knight.
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     Jet propeller (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by
        means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel,
        as by a centrifugal pump.
  
     Jet pump, a device in which a small jet of steam, air,
        water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise
        moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with
        which it mingles.
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  Jet \Jet\, n.
     Same as 2d Get. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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  Jet \Jet\, n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. ja["i]et, jais, L. gagates,
     fr. Gr. ?; -- so called from ? or ?, a town and river in
     Lycia.] [written also jeat, jayet.] (Min.)
     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.
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     Jet ant (Zool.), a blackish European ant (Formica  fuliginosa
        ), which builds its nest of a paperlike
        material in the trunks of trees.
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  Jet \Jet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jetted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Jetting.] [F. jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw.
     See 3d Jet, and cf. Jut.]
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     1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be
        insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.]
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              he jets under his advanced plumes!    --Shak.
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              To jet upon a prince's right.         --Shak.
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     2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] --Wiseman.
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     3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
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  Jet \Jet\, v. t.
     To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
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           A dozen angry models jetted steam.       --Tennyson.
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jet - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  jet
      adj 1: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or
             coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy,
             sooty]
      n 1: an airplane powered by one or more jet engines [syn: jet,
           jet plane, jet-propelled plane]
      2: the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn:
         jet, squirt, spurt, spirt]
      3: a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish
         and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
      4: atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the
         tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they
         flash upward [syn: jet, blue jet, reverse lightning]
      5: street names for ketamine [syn: K, jet, super acid,
         special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C]
      6: an artificially produced flow of water [syn: fountain,
         jet]
      v 1: issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth;
           "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the
           building" [syn: jet, gush]
      2: fly a jet plane

jet - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  JET
         Joint Engineering Team
         

  JET
         Java Emitter Templates (Java, EMF)
         

jet - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Jet, OK (town, FIPS 38000)
    Location: 36.66676 N, 98.18071 W
    Population (1990): 272 (164 housing units)
    Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 73749

jet - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, zooming