jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: jets
Etymology: Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
Senses: examples: text: In the floor of the valley the line passes hills of fantastic shape, like sleeping camels and inverted washbasins, and you can see the beautiful lakes Naivasha and Elementeita; at Eburru jets of steam spurt out of the ground.
ref: 1950 April 23, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
glosses: A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
glosses: A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
examples: text: One of the other two nations to operate the F-35B, the United Kingdom, has had US versions of the jet operating off its HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier.
ref: 2018 November 29, Brad Lendon and Zachary Cohen, “Japan preparing to put US-designed stealth jets on an ‘aircraft carrier’”, in CNN:
text: “Rather than writing off both jets as a loss … teams made a bold decision in 2022 to remove the nose from AF-27 and put it onto AF-211 to maximize savings and add back an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report from the F-35 JPO said.
ref: 2025 April 10, Brad Lendon, “‘Frankenjet’ stealth fighter made from two wrecked warplanes joins US Air Force fleet”, in CNN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
glosses: An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
A turbine.
glosses: An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
A rocket engine.
glosses: A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
glosses: Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
Derived terms: autem jet
biojet
bizjet
black hole jet
blue jet
Bussard ramjet
counterjet
dijet
electrojet
fanjet
fighter jet
gas jet
gigantic jet
helijet
hoverjet
hydrojet
inkjet
jet age
jet ant
jetbead
jet bead
jet belt
jet black
jet blast
jetboat
jet boat
jetboater
jet-borne
jet bridge
jetcar
jet cocoon
jetcopter
jet d'eau
jet dryer
jetevator
jetfighter
jet fighter
jetfoil
jet fuel
jetful
jet injector
jetiquette
jet jockey
jet lag
jet-lagged
jetless
jetlike
jetline
jet-liner
jet liner
jetliner
jetload
jet machine
jetness
jet off
jet pack
jet-pack
jet pipe
jetport
jet propellant
jet-propelled
jet set
jetset
jet setter
jet-setter
jet setting
jet-setting
jet shoe
jet siphon
jet-ski
jet ski
jet stream
jet sweep
jettable
jetter
jetty
jetware
jet-wash
jetwash
jetway
jumbojet
jumbo jet
jump jet
microjet
minijet
monojet
motorjet
multijet
outjet
overjet
propjet
prop-jet
pulsejet
pulse jet
pump-jet
quadjet
radio jet
ramjet
Rayleigh jet
regional jet
rejet
resistojet
resisto-jet
retrojet
sand-jet
scramjet
social jet lag
subjet
superjet
thermojet
trijet
turbojet
twinjet
upjet
water jet
Worthington jet