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English

Etymology

From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

flux (countable and uncountable, plural fluxes)

1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     By […] the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body.

   • 1991, Mann, H., Fyfe, W., Tazaki, K., & Kerrich, R., Biological Accumulation of Different Chemical Elements by Microorganisms from Yellowstone National Park, USA. Mechanisms And Phylogeny Of Mineralization In Biological Systems, 357-362.

     Investigation of the silica budget for the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins of Yellowstone National Park by Truesdell et al. suggest that the present fluxes of hotspring water and thermal energy may have been continuous for at least the past 10,000 yr.

2. A state of ongoing change.

   The schedule is in flux at the moment.

   Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.

   • 1856, Richard Chenevix Trench, On the Death of an Infant

     Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
3. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.

   It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.

4. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically electric flux, magnetic flux.

   That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.

5. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
6. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
7. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

Antonyms

• (state of ongoing change): stasis

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

flux (third-person singular simple present fluxes, present participle fluxing, simple past and past participle fluxed)

1. (transitive) To use flux on.

   You have to flux the joint before soldering.

2. (transitive) To melt.
3. (intransitive) To flow as a liquid.

Related terms

• fluxion

Adjective

flux (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, "On Contentment", Sermon XL, in The Theological Works, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375:

     The flux nature of all things here.

Related terms

• fluxional

Related terms

• fluctuant

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin fluxus. Doublet of fluix.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fluks/

Noun

flux m (plural fluxos)

1. flow

Related terms

• fluir

Further reading

• “flux” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluxus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fly/

Noun

flux m (plural flux)

1. flow
2. flood, flood tide

   Antonym: reflux

3. (figuratively) flood (an abundance of something)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “flux” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

flux m (oblique plural flux, nominative singular flux, nominative plural flux)

1. diarrhea (rapid passage of fecal matter through the bowels)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French flux.

Noun

flux n (plural fluxuri)

1. flow (the flow of the tide)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French flux. Doublet of flujo and flojo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flu?s/, [?flu??s]

Noun

flux m (plural fluxes)

1. (card playing) flush (hand consisting of all cards with the same suit)
2. (Venezuela, colloquial, Dominican Republic, dated) suit (set of clothes)

   Synonyms: terno, traje

Further reading

• “flux” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

jet (plural jets)

1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
2. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
3. (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
   1. A turbine.
   2. A rocket engine.
6. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
7. (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
8. (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
9. (printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

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Derived terms

Translations

Verb

jet (third-person singular simple present jets, present participle jetting, simple past and past participle jetted)

1. (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
2. (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.

3. (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
4. (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
5. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
6. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II Scene 1,^[1]

     Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous

     It is to jet upon a prince’s right?

   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II Scene 5,^[2]

     Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!

7. 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,^[3]

     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.

8. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
9. (slang) To leave.

Translations

Adjective

jet (not comparable)

1. Propelled by turbine engines.

   jet airplane

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gag?t?s, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Gagát?s), from ????? (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.

Noun

jet (plural jets)

2. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.

   Hypernyms: lignite, mineraloid
3. (color) The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

Alternative forms

• jeat (obsolete)

Derived terms

• jet-black

Translations

Adjective

jet (comparative jetter or more jet, superlative jettest or most jet)

1. Very dark black in colour.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 23:

     She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• jet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• jet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• jet (gemstone) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tej

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German iowiht, from io (“always”) + wiht (“thing”) << Proto-West Germanic *wihti.

Cognate with Middle Dutch iewet, iet (whence Limburgish get, contemporary Dutch iets), English aught.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?t/, /j?t/

Pronoun

jet (indefinite)

1. (Ripuarian, northernmost Moselle Franconian) something; anything

   Luur ens, ich hann der jet metjebrat.

   Look, I’ve brought you something.

Synonyms

• eppes, ebbes (most of Moselle Franconian)

Antonyms

• nüüs (nix)

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *?xati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?t/
• Homophone: jed
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

jet impf

1. to ride
2. to go (by vehicle)

Usage notes

Jet is in the class of Czech concrete verbs. Its counterpart, jezdit, is an abstract verb.

Conjugation

Antonyms

• nejet

Derived terms

• dojet
• nadjet
• podjet
• projet
• p?ejet
• objet
• rozjet
• ujet
• vjet
• zajet

Related terms

See also

• jezdit

References

Further reading

• jeti in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• jeti in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology 1

From Old French get, giet, from a Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, an alteration of Latin iactus (“a throwing, throw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

1. throw
2. spurt, spout, jet

Derived terms

Related terms

• jeter

Descendants

• ? English: jet

Further reading

• “jet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology 2

From English jet (airplane).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??t/

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

1. jet (airplane)

Further reading

• “jet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

1. bed

Middle English

Noun

jet

1. Alternative form of get (“jet”)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin iactus

Noun

jet

1. throw

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: jet
• French: jet
  • ? English: jet

Romanian

Etymology

From French jet.

Noun

jet n (plural jeturi)

1. jet (of a gas of liquid)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From English jet.

Pronunciation

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

1. jet