jet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A fast aircraft powered by jet engines instead of propellers.

   They flew to New York on a private jet.

2. 2
   noun

   A fast, narrow stream of liquid or gas forced out under pressure.

   A jet of water shot from the broken pipe.

3. 3
   verb

   To come out in a fast, narrow stream.

   Steam jetted from the cracks in the ground.

4. 4
   adj

   Very deep, shiny black.

   She had long, jet black hair.

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.

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