English Explanatory Dictionary

jet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
  4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
  5. A turbine.
  6. A rocket engine.
  7. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
  8. A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
  9. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
  10. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
verb
  1. To spray out of a container.
  2. To spray with liquid from a container.
  3. To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
  4. 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.
  8. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
  9. To leave; depart.
adj
  1. Propelled by turbine engines.
noun
  1. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
  2. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
adj
  1. Very dark black in colour.
noun
  1. 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.
name
  1. A town in Oklahoma.
  2. A male given name.
  3. A female given name.
name
  1. Acronym of Journal of Evolution and Technology.

Pronunciation

/ˈd͡ʒɛt/ En-au-jet.ogg

Word forms

jet jets jetting jetted jeat jess jetter more jet jettest most jet

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.

Synonyms

jet-black jetty

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

Translations

Albanian: curril Bulgarian: струя Bulgarian: реактивен двигател Catalan: raig Chuvash: йӑр Cornish: stif Czech: proud Czech: výtrysk Danish: stråle Dutch: straal Finnish: suihku Finnish: suihkumoottori French: jet Galician: golfarón Galician: callón Galician: torno Galician: cichón Georgian: ნაკადი Georgian: რეაქტიული ძრავა German: Strahl Hebrew: סִילוֹן Hebrew: מנוע סילון Hindi: प्रवाह Irish: scaird Italian: getto Japanese: 噴射 Japanese: 射出 Japanese: ジェットエンジン Latin: tullius Macedonian: млаз Macedonian: мла́зен по́гон Macedonian: мла́зен мо́тор Malay: pancutan Polish: strumień Polish: silnik odrzutowy Portuguese: jato Romanian: jet Romanian: motor cu reacție Russian: струя́ Russian: реакти́вный дви́гатель Serbo-Croatian: мла̑з Serbo-Croatian: mlȃz Serbo-Croatian: mlazni motor Spanish: chorro Spanish: chorreón Spanish: chorretada Spanish: chorretón Spanish: manguerazo Spanish: turborreactor Swedish: stråle Swedish: jetmotor Ukrainian: струмінь Arabic: مُحَرِّك نَفَّاث Chinese Cantonese: 噴氣機 /喷气机 Chinese Mandarin: 喷气发动机 Esperanto: reaktoro Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនយន្តហោះ Korean: 제트 엔진 Swahili: mtambo Turkish: jet motoru Turkish: jet makinesi Vietnamese: động cơ phản lực Armenian: գիշեր Armenian: գիշերաքար Armenian: սեւ սաթ Armenian: սաթ Breton: maen-jed Bulgarian: черен кехлибар Catalan: atzabeja Catalan: gaieta Cornish: men du Czech: gagát Finnish: gagaatti French: jais Galician: acibeche Georgian: გიშერი Georgian: სათი German: Gagat German: Jett Hungarian: szurokszén Italian: giaietto Japanese: 黒玉 Japanese: 貝褐炭 Central Kurdish: شەوە Latin: gagates Navajo: bááshzhinii Persian: شبق Polish: gagat Portuguese: azeviche Romanian: jais Romanian: gagat Russian: гага́т
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