jet

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

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.

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.^[1]

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 [pseudonym], “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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:

     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,^[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
   • 1970, Bill Fisher, How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines‎^[2], 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 [pseudonym], 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.

jet (not comparable)

1. Propelled by turbine engines.

   jet airplane

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.

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[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] 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:  

• jeat (obsolete)
• jess

• jet-black

• → German: Jett

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.

• Appendix:Colors

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

• tej

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.

• IPA^(key): /jɛt/, /jət/

jet (indefinite)

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

   Luur ens, ich hann der jet metjebraht.

   Look, I’ve brought you something.

• eppes, ebbes (most of Moselle Franconian)

• nühs (nix)

From Old Czech jěti, from Proto-Slavic *ěxati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɛt]

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• Homophone: jed
• Rhymes: -ɛt

jet impf

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

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

• nejet

• jezdit

• “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)

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

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛ/

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

jet m (plural jets)

1. throw
2. spurt, spout, jet

• jeter

• → English: jet

• “jet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English jet (airplane).

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛt/

jet m (plural jets)

1. jet (airplane)

• “jet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

jet m (plural jets)

1. bed

From a contamination of jot and etti.

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

jet

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

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

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

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

jet

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

jet

1. spin

• jetjet

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

jet

1. Alternative form of get (“jet”)

From Latin iactus.

jet

1. throw

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

Borrowed from French jet.

jet n (plural jeturi)

1. jet (of a gas of liquid)

Unadapted borrowing from English jet.

• Rhymes: -et

jet m (plural jets)

1. jet

• “jet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from English jet

• IPA^(key): /ʒet/

jet (definite accusative jeti, plural jetler)

1. jet

• IPA^(key): /dʒèd/

jet (plural jét)

1. cricket