jet

Meanings

Noun

• 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 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.

Verb

• 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

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

Origin

• Borrowed from French jet ("spurt"), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin iactus ("a throwing, a throw"), from iacere. See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
• From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης, from Γάγας. gagate.