Jet
Jet , noun
Jet , noun
[Old French jet, jayet, French jaiet, jais, Latin gagates, from Greek {not transcribed}; -- so called from {not transcribed} or {not transcribed}, a town and river in Lycia.]
(Mineralogy) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.
Collocations (1)
Jet ant (Zoology) , a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.
Jet , noun
[French jet, Old French get, giet, Latin jactus a throwing, a throw, from jacere to throw. Compare Abject, Ejaculate, Gist, Jess, Jut.]
1.
A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.
2.
Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obsolete]
3.
The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. — Knight
Collocations (2)
Jet propeller (Nautical) , a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.
Jet pump , a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles.
Jet , intransitive verb
[French jeter, Latin jactare, freq. from jacere to throw. See 3d Jet, and compare Jut.]
1.
To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obsolete]
he jets under his advanced plumes!
To jet upon a prince's right.
2.
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obsolete] — Wiseman
3.
To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
Jet , transitive verb
To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
A dozen angry models jetted steam.