jet

jet

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒɛt/
  • 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.
  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
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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.
  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.
  6. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
  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,[1]
      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
  9. (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
Translations

Adjective

jet (not comparable)

  1. Propelled by turbine engines.
    jet airplane
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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
  3. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
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
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

Synonyms

  • eppes, ebbes (most of Moselle Franconian)

Antonyms

  • nühs (nix)

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈjɛt]
  • 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 (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “jeti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “jet”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

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/
  • 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

  1. bed

Ingrian

Etymology

From a contamination of jot and etti.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈjet/, [ˈje̞d]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈjet/, [ˈje̞d̥]
  • 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): [tʲɛtˠ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /tʲɛtˠ/
  • Bender phonemes:

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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

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