Jet word meaning and definition

[noun] an artificially produced flow of water
[noun] an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
[noun] the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
[noun] a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewellery or ornamentation
[adjective] of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
[verb] issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building"
[verb] fly a jet plane

\Jet\, n. Same as 2d {Get}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
\Jet\, n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. ja["i]et, jais, L. gagates, fr. Gr. ?; -- so called from ? or ?, a town and river in Lycia.] [written also {jeat}, {jayet}.] (Min.) 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}. {Jet ant} (Zo["o]l.), a blackish European ant ({Formica fuliginosa}), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.
\Jet\, n. [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. {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. [Obs.] 3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. --Knight. {Jet propeller} (Naut.), 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\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jetted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jetting}.] [F. jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw. See 3d {Jet}, and cf. {Jut}.] 1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.] he jets under his advanced plumes! --Shak. To jet upon a prince's right. --Shak. 2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] --Wiseman. 3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
\Jet\, v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. A dozen angry models jetted steam. --Tennyson.

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