jet

Plural: jets

Noun

• an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
• the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
• a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
• atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
• street names for ketamine
• an artificially produced flow of water
• A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
• A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
• A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
• An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
• A turbine.
• An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
• A rocket engine.
• A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
• A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
• Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
• The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
• A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
• The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
• 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

Verb Forms: jetted, jetting, jets

• To spurt forth in a stream; to travel quickly.
• issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
  • "Water jetted forth"
  • "flames were jetting out of the building"
• fly a jet plane
• To spray out of a container.
• To spray with liquid from a container.
• To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
• To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
• To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
• To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
• To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
• To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
• To leave; depart.

Adjective Satellite

• of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

Adj

• Propelled by turbine engines.
• Very dark black in colour.

Examples

• Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
• Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
• Points seemed to JET across the Scrabble board after her impressive bingo play.

Synonyms

blue jet, cat valium, coal-black, fountain, green, gush, honey oil, jet plane, jet-black, jet-propelled plane, K, pitchy, reverse lightning, sooty, special K, spirt, spurt, squirt, super acid, super C

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