jet

noun

1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.

   “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. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.

   “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.”

4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
5. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
6. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
7. 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. (dated)The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
10. (countable, uncountable)A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.

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

11. (countable, uncountable)The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
12. an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.

verb

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.

   “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.”

6. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

   “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!”

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

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

   “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.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Propelled by turbine engines.

   “jet airplane”

2. Very dark black in colour.

   “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.”

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

name

1. (uncountable)A town in Oklahoma.
2. (countable)A male given name.
3. (countable, rare)A female given name.
4. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Journal of Evolution and Technology.