jet.
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-kt Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin iactus Vulgar Latin *iectus Old French get French jetbor. English jet Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, *jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
To spray out of a container.
To spray with liquid from a container.
Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
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.
Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-kt Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin iactus Vulgar Latin *iectus Old French get French jetbor. English jet Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, *jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
Propelled by turbine engines.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-kt Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin iactus Vulgar Latin *iectus Old French get French jetbor. English jet Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, *jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
Where this word comes from
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.
Very dark black in colour.
Where this word comes from
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-kt Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin iactus Vulgar Latin *iectus Old French get French jetbor. English jet Borrowed from French jet.
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