jet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛt/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

jet (plural jets)

1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
   • 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:

     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.

2. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
3. (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
   1. A turbine.
   2. A rocket engine.
6. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
7. (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
8. (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
9. (printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

jet (third-person singular simple present jets, present participle jetting, simple past and past participle jetted)

1. (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
2. (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.

   Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.

3. (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
4. (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
5. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
   • 1724, Charles Johnson, “Of Captain Bartho[lomew] Roberts, and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, , 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, , →OCLC, page 214:

     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.

6. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous
     It is to jet upon a prince’s right?

   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!

7. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
   • 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.

8. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
   • 1970, Bill Fisher, How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines‎, page 30:

     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.

9. (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.

   Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.

   • 2006, Noire , Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 106:

     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.

Translations

Adjective

jet (not comparable)

1. Propelled by turbine engines.

   jet airplane

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.

Noun

jet (countable and uncountable, plural jets)

2. (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.

   Hypernyms: lignite, mineraloid

   • 1735, [John Barrow], “JEAT”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. , volume II (I–S), London: C Hitch and C Davis , and S Austen , →OCLC:

     There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.

3. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

   jet:  

Alternative forms

• jeat (obsolete)
• jess

Derived terms

• jet-black

Descendants

• → German: Jett

Translations

Adjective

jet (comparative jetter or more jet, superlative jettest or most jet)

1. Very dark black in colour.

   Synonym: jet-black

   • 1901, Franklin Beech, The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student:

     All the direct blacks require working in strong baths to give anything like black shades; they all have, more or less, a bluish tone, which can be changed to a jetter shade by the addition of a yellow or green dye in small proportions, which has been done in one of the recipes given above.

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 23:

     She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• “jet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• jet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• jet (gemstone) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• tej

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German iowiht, from io (“always”) + wiht (“thing”) << Proto-West Germanic *wihti.

Cognate with Middle Dutch iewet, iet (whence Limburgish get, contemporary Dutch iets), English aught.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛt/, /jət/

Pronoun

jet (indefinite)

1. (Ripuarian, northernmost Moselle Franconian) something; anything

   Luur ens, ich hann der jet metjebraht.

   Look, I’ve brought you something.

Synonyms

• eppes, ebbes (most of Moselle Franconian)

Antonyms

• nühs (nix)

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech jěti, from Proto-Slavic *ěxati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

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• Homophone: jed
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Verb

jet impf

1. to ride
2. to go (by vehicle)

Usage notes

Jet is in the class of Czech concrete verbs. Its counterpart, jezdit, is an abstract verb.

Conjugation

Antonyms

• nejet

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• jezdit

References

Further reading

• jeti in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• jeti in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• jet in Internetová jazyková příručka

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French get, giet, from a Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, an alteration of Latin iactus (“a throwing, throw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Homophones: geai, j’ai (some speakers), jais

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

1. throw
2. spurt, spout, jet

Derived terms

Related terms

• jeter

Descendants

• → English: jet

Further reading

• “jet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English jet (airplane).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛt/

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

1. jet (airplane)

Further reading

• “jet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Friulian

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

1. bed

Ingrian

Etymology

From a contamination of jot and etti.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈjet/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈjet/,
• Rhymes: -et
• Hyphenation: jet

Conjunction

jet

1. (+ indicative) that
2. (+ 1st infinitive) in order to

Synonyms

• (that): jot, etti, sto
• (in order to): jot, etti

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 104

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key):
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /tʲɛtˠ/
• Bender phonemes: {jet}

Determiner

jet

1. few, a few others; several
2. some

Verb

jet

1. spin

Related terms

• jetjet

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary
• "jet" in The Dictionary at Marshallese.org

Middle English

Noun

jet

1. Alternative form of get (“jet”)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin iactus.

Noun

jet

1. throw

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: jet
• French: jet
  • → English: jet

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French jet.

Noun

jet n (plural jeturi)

1. jet (of a gas of liquid)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jet.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -et

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

1. jet

Further reading

• “jet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English jet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒet/

Noun

jet (definite accusative jeti, plural jetler)

1. jet

Tyap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒèd/

Noun

jet (plural jét)

1. cricket