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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.
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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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raven
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English raven, reven, from Old English hræfn, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz.
Pronunciation
- enPR: r??v?n, IPA(key): /??e?v?n/
- Rhymes: -e?v?n
Noun
raven (countable and uncountable, plural ravens)
- (countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
- A jet-black colour.
Derived terms
- Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)
- brown-necked raven (Corvus ruficollis)
- Chatham raven (Corvus moriorum)
- Chihuahuan raven (Corvus cryptoleucus)
- common raven (Corvus corax)
- dwarf raven (Corvus edithae)
- fan-tailed raven (Corvus rhipidurus)
- forest raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
- little raven (Corvus mellori)
- New Zealand raven (Corvus antipodum)
- northern raven (Corvus corax)
- pied raven
- raven-messenger
- relict raven (Corvus tasmanicus boreus)
- Somali raven (Corvus edithae)
- Tasmanian raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
- thick-billed raven (Corvus crassirostris)
- western raven (Corvus corax sinuatus)
- white-necked raven (Corvus albicollis)
Translations
Adjective
raven (not comparable)
- Of the color of the raven; jet-black
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rap?na (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).
Alternative forms
- ravin, ravine
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?v??n, IPA(key): /??æv?n/
- Rhymes: -æv?n
Noun
raven (plural ravens)
- Rapine; rapacity.
- Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Translations
Verb
raven (third-person singular simple present ravens, present participle ravening, simple past and past participle ravened)
- (transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
- (transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
- (transitive) To prey on with rapacity.
- The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.
- (intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).
- 1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London, “The nature and qualities of hogges, and also the gouernement thereof,”[1]
- […] because hogs are commonly rauening for their meat, more then other cattel, it is meet therefore to haue them ringed, or else they wil doe much hurt in digging and turning vp corne fieldes […]
- 1852, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Old Nurse’s Story” in The Old Nurse’s Story and Other Tales,[2]
- They passed along towards the great hall-door, where the winds howled and ravened for their prey […]
- 1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Were-Wolves, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Chapter 8, p. 114,[3]
- The Greek were-wolf is closely related to the vampire. The lycanthropist falls into a cataleptic trance, during which his soul leaves his body, enters that of a wolf and ravens for blood.
- 1931, James B. Fagan, The Improper Duchess, London: Victor Gollancz, 1932, Act 3, p. 237,[4]
- On one side the great temple where you can gather the good harvest—on the other a dirty little scandal that you’ve nosed out to fling to paper scavengers who feed it to their readin’ millions ravening for pornographic dirt.
- 1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London, “The nature and qualities of hogges, and also the gouernement thereof,”[1]
Related terms
- ravener
- ravening
- ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness
Further reading
- Corvus corax on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Verna
Dutch
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English rave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?re?v?(n)/
Verb
raven
- to (hold a) rave, to party wildly
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ra?v?(n)/
- Rhymes: -a?v?n
Noun
raven
- Plural form of raaf
Anagrams
- ervan, varen
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch ravan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn.
Noun
r?ven m
- raven
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- r?vene
- r?ve
Descendants
- Dutch: raaf
- Afrikaans: raaf
- ? Sranan Tongo: rafru
- Limburgish: raof
Further reading
- “raven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “raven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *orv?n?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rà???n/
Adjective
ráv?n (comparative rávnejši, superlative n?jrávnejši)
- even, level
Inflection
Alternative forms
- rav?n (archaic)
Derived terms
- rávnost
Further reading
- “raven”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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