jet
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
printing
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)ih₁kyeti
Proto-Italic *jīkjō
Proto-Italic *jakjōder.
Latin iaciō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin iactus
Vulgar Latin *iectus
Old French get
French jetbor.
English jet
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.
Inflected forms:
form: jets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jetted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
“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.
gloss: An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
pos: noun
gloss: An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
pos: noun
gloss: A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
pos: noun
gloss: A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
pos: noun
gloss: Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To spray out of a container.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To spray with liquid from a container.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
gloss: To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
pos: verb
examples: The Town has the outer Branch of the River behind it, and the Harbour before it, jetting into which latter are cloſe Keys for the weighing and receiving of Cuſtomage on Merchandize, and for the meeting and conferring of Merchants and Traders.
And last year, at 5:26 a.m. on August 10, a whole mountainside toppled into the tideline of the shrunken Sawyer Glacier, not far from the Alaskan capital, Juneau. The impact jetted a tsunami a staggering 500 meters up the walls of the fjord.
gloss: To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
pos: verb
examples: Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous
It is to jet upon a prince’s right?
Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!
gloss: To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
pos: verb
examples: 1719, Richard Wiseman, Serjeant-Chirurgeon to King Charles II, Eight Chirurgical Treatises, London: B. Tooke et al., 5th edition, Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 4, p. 78,
A Lady was wounded down the whole Length of the Forehead to the Nose […] It happened to her travelling in a Hackney-Coach, upon the jetting whereof she was thrown out of the hinder Seat against a Bar of Iron in the forepart of the Coach.
gloss: To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
pos: verb
examples: The cure is to jet the carburetor excessively rich so that the mixture will be correct at the top end, but this richens the curve throughout the RPM range.
gloss: To leave; depart.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
Pimp prolly jetted before the girl hit the ground good, and if Smoove was still standing on the porch when his brother got downstairs, he'd taken off with him.
gloss: Propelled by turbine engines.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: jet airplane
Derived words: 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 ace
jet age
jet ant
jet bead
jetbead
jet belt
jet black
jet blast
jet boat
jetboat
jetboater
jet-borne
jet bridge
jetcar
jet cocoon
jetcopter
jet d'eau
jet dryer
jetevator
jet fighter
jetfighter
jet flame
jet flow
jetfoil
jet fuel
jetful
jet injector
jetiquette
jet jockey
jet lag
jet-lagged
jetless
jet lighter
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
jet syndrome
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
jettingly
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: curril
lang: Bulgarian
word: струя
roman: struja
lang: Catalan
word: raig
lang: Chuvash
word: йӑр
roman: jăr
lang: Cornish
word: stif
lang: Czech
word: proud
lang: Czech
word: výtrysk
lang: Danish
word: stråle
lang: Dutch
word: straal
lang: Finnish
word: suihku
lang: French
word: jet
lang: Galician
word: golfarón
lang: Galician
word: callón
lang: Galician
word: torno
lang: Galician
word: cichón
lang: Georgian
word: ნაკადი
roman: naḳadi
lang: German
word: Strahl
lang: Hebrew
word: סִילוֹן
roman: silón
lang: Hindi
word: प्रवाह
roman: pravāh
lang: Irish
word: scaird
lang: Italian
word: getto
lang: Japanese
word: 噴射
roman: funsha
lang: Japanese
word: 射出
roman: shashutsu
lang: Latin
word: tullius
lang: Macedonian
word: млаз
roman: mlaz
lang: Malay
word: pancutan
lang: Polish
word: strumień
lang: Portuguese
word: jato
lang: Romanian
word: jet
lang: Russian
word: струя́
roman: strujá
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мла̑з
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mlȃz
lang: Spanish
word: chorro
lang: Spanish
word: chorreón
lang: Spanish
word: chorretada
lang: Spanish
word: chorretón
lang: Spanish
word: manguerazo
lang: Swedish
word: stråle
lang: Ukrainian
word: струмінь
roman: struminʹ
lang: Arabic
word: مُحَرِّك نَفَّاث
roman: muḥarrik naffāṯ
lang: Bulgarian
word: реактивен двигател
roman: reaktiven dvigatel
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 噴氣機 /喷气机
roman: pan³ hei³ gei¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 喷气发动机
roman: pēn qì fā dòng jī
lang: Esperanto
word: reaktoro
lang: Finnish
word: suihkumoottori
lang: Georgian
word: რეაქტიული ძრავა
roman: reakṭiuli ʒrava
lang: Hebrew
word: מנוע סילון
roman: mnv sylvn
lang: Japanese
word: ジェットエンジン
roman: jettoenjin
lang: Khmer
word: ម៉ាស៊ីនយន្តហោះ
roman: maasɨn-yŭən hɑh
lang: Korean
word: 제트 엔진
roman: jeteu enjin
lang: Macedonian
word: мла́зен по́гон
roman: mlázen pógon
lang: Macedonian
word: мла́зен мо́тор
roman: mlázen mótor
lang: Polish
word: silnik odrzutowy
lang: Romanian
word: motor cu reacție
lang: Russian
word: реакти́вный дви́гатель
roman: reaktívnyj dvígatelʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mlazni motor
lang: Spanish
word: turborreactor
lang: Swahili
word: mtambo
lang: Swedish
word: jetmotor
lang: Turkish
word: jet motoru
lang: Turkish
word: jet makinesi
lang: Vietnamese
word: động cơ phản lực