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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JET, n. [L. gagates.] A solid, dry, black,inflammable fossil substance, harder than asphalt, susceptible of a good polish, and glossy in its fracture, which is conchoidal or undulating. It is found not in strata or continued masses, but in unconnected heaps. It is wrought into toys, buttons, mourning jewels, etc.
Jet is regarded as a variety of lignite, or coal originating in wood.
JET, n. [L. jactus.]
1. A spout, spouting or shooting of water; a jet d'eau.
2. A yard. Tusser. Drift; scope. [Not in use or local.]
JET, v.i. [See the Noun.] To shoot forward; to shoot out; to project; to jut; to intrude.
1. To strut; to throw or toss the body in haughtiness.
2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
[This orthography is rarely used. See Jut.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French jaiet, from Latin gagates, from Greek gagat?s, from Gagas, town and river in Asia Minor Date: 14th century 1. a compact velvet-black coal that takes a good polish and is often used for jewelry 2. an intense black II. adjective Date: 1658 of the color jet III. verb (jetted; jetting) Etymology: French jeter, literally, to throw, from Old French, from Latin jactare to throw, frequentative of jacere to throw; akin to Greek hienai to send Date: 1692 intransitive verb to spout forth ; gush transitive verb to emit in a stream ; spout IV. noun Date: circa 1696 1. a. (1) a usually forceful stream of fluid (as water or gas) discharged from a narrow opening or a nozzle (2) a narrow stream of material (as plasma) emanating or appearing to emanate from a celestial object (as a radio galaxy) b. a nozzle for a jet of fluid 2. something issuing as if in a jet <talk poured from her in a brilliant jet — Time> 3. a. jet engine b. an airplane powered by one or more jet engines 4. a long narrow current of high-speed winds (as a jet stream) • jetlike adjective V. intransitive verb (jetted; jetting) Date: 1949 1. to travel by jet airplane 2. to move or progress by or as if by jet propulsion

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. 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. Phrases and idioms: 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. Etymology: earlier as verb (in sense 1): F jeter throw ult. f. L jactare frequent. of jacere jact- throw 2. 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. Etymology: ME f. AF geet, OF jaiet f. L gagates f. Gk gagates f. Gagai in Asia Minor

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.] 1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.] he jets under his advanced plumes! --Shak. To jet upon a prince's right. --Shak. 2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] --Wiseman. 3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jet Jet, n. Same as 2d Get. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Jet ant (Zo["o]l.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jet Jet, n. [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. Abject, Ejaculate, Gist, Jess, Jut.] 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. 2. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.] 3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. --Knight. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jet Jet, v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. A dozen angry models jetted steam. --Tennyson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(jets, jetting, jetted) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A jet is an aircraft that is powered by jet engines. Her private jet landed in the republic on the way to Japan... He had arrived from Jersey by jet. N-COUNT: also by N see also jump jet 2. If you jet somewhere, you travel there in a fast plane. He and his wife, Val, will be jetting off on a two-week holiday in America... VERB: V adv/prep 3. A jet of liquid or gas is a strong, fast, thin stream of it. A jet of water poured through the windows. N-COUNT: oft N of n 4. Jet is a hard black stone that is used in jewellery.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A lawyer. Autem jet; a parson.

Moby Thesaurus

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