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jet
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)
- 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.
- (aviation) 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.
- A rocket engine.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
- (printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
jet (third-person singular simple present jets, present participle jetting, simple past and past participle jetted)
- (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
- (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
- (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- (intransitive) 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.
- 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!
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II Scene 1,[1]
- 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.
- 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]
- To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- (slang) To leave.
Translations
Adjective
jet (not comparable)
- 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)
- A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- Hypernyms: lignite, mineraloid
- (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)
- 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.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 23:
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)
- (Ripuarian, northernmost Moselle Franconian) something; anything
- Luur ens, ich hann der jet metjebrat.
- Look, I’ve brought you something.
- Luur ens, ich hann der jet metjebrat.
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
- to ride
- 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)
- throw
- 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)
- 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)
- bed
Middle English
Noun
jet
- Alternative form of get (“jet”)
Old French
Etymology
From Latin iactus
Noun
jet
- throw
Descendants
- Anglo-Norman: jet
- French: jet
- ? English: jet
Romanian
Etymology
From French jet.
Noun
jet n (plural jeturi)
- jet (of a gas of liquid)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From English jet.
Pronunciation
Noun
jet m (plural jets)
- jet
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inky
English
Etymology
ink +? -y
Adjective
inky (comparative inkier, superlative inkiest)
- Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
- 1870, The Shamrock (volume 8, page 18)
- One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6
- Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.
- 1870, The Shamrock (volume 8, page 18)
- Spattered or stained with ink.
- (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
Synonyms
- (dark coloured): black, dark, murky
- (dark-skinned): black, dusky, sable, sooty, swarthy
Antonyms
- bright
- clear
- whitened
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