jet

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of the blackest black

   similar to the color of jet or coal

2. 2
   verb

   issue in a jet

   come out in a jet

3. 3
   noun

   A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.

   One of the other two nations to operate the F-35B, the United Kingdom, has had US versions of the jet operating off its HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier.

5. 5
   verb

   To spray with liquid from a container.

   Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.

6. 6
   verb

   To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

   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.

7. 7
   verb

   To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

   Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous It is to jet upon a prince’s right?

8. 8
   verb

   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, 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.

Etymology

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.