different between jet vs sable

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

English

Alternative forms

• sa., s. (in heraldic contexts)

Etymology

Attested since 1275, from Middle English, from Old French sable and martre sable (“sable martin”), in reference to the animal or its fur; from Medieval Latin sabelum, from Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel); ultimately from a Balto-Slavic word (compare Russian ??????? (sóbol?), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Doublet of sobol. Compare also Middle Persian smwl (*sam?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?b?l/, /?se?b?/
• Rhymes: -e?b?l
• Hyphenation: sa?ble

Noun

sable (countable and uncountable, plural sables)

1. (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia).
2. (countable) The marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
3. (countable and uncountable) The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando

     Lovers dallied upon divans spread with sables.

4. (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable (Wikipedia).
5. (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms (Wikipedia).

6. (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.

7. (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
   • […] a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil!  You!  Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.

Derived terms

Related terms

• zibeline

Translations

Adjective

sable (comparative more sable, superlative most sable)

1. Of the black colour sable.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12:

     When I behold the violet past prime,

     And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white

   • 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I

     Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.

   • 2002, Christopher Paolini, Eragon, chapter 3

     They wound between the wagons to a tent removed from the rest of the traders'. It was crimson at the top and sable at the bottom, with thin triangles of colors stabbing into each other.

2. (heraldry): In blazon, of the colour black.
3. Made of sable fur.
4. Dark, somber.
5. (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 7:

     Some of the sable females, who formerly stood aloof, now began to relax and appear less coy; but my heart was still fixed on London, where I hoped to be ere long.

Synonyms

• (dark-skinned): black, dusky, inky, sooty, swarthy

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

References

• Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 1987.

Anagrams

• Ables, Basel, Basle, Blase, Bleas, Sabel, ables, albes, baels, bales, beals, blase, blasé, labes, saleb

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.?le/

Etymology 1

From French sable and this from Late Latin sablum, from Latin sabulum, alternative form of sabul?. Compare sablera. Compare Italian sabbia, Occitan sabla.

Noun

sable m (plural sables)

1. sand

Etymology 2

From Spanish sable and this from French sabre, from German Säbel, from Hungarian szablya, cognate with Danish sabel, Russian ?????? (sáblja), Polish szabla, Serbo-Croatian ?????.

Alternative forms

• sabre
• sálabre

Noun

sable m (plural sables)

1. saber
2. edge of a scythe

Basque

Alternative forms

• sabre

Noun

sable

1. sabre, saber

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?sa.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sa.ble/

Noun

sable m (plural sables)

1. (heraldry) sable

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sabl/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [s???bl]
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [sab]

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin sablum, from Latin sabulum, alternative form of sabul?. Compare sablon, which was used more often in Old French. Compare Italian sabbia, Occitan sabla.

Noun

sable m (plural sables)

1. sand

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French martre sable (“sable marten”), an animal. From Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel); ultimately from a Balto-Slavic word (compare Russian ??????? (sóbol?), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Persian ????? (samur).

Noun

sable m (plural sables)

1. (heraldry) The heraldic colour sable; black.

Etymology 3

From sabler

Verb

sable

1. first-person singular present indicative of sabler
2. third-person singular present indicative of sabler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of sabler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of sabler
5. second-person singular imperative of sabler

Anagrams

• bêlas, blasé

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From older savel, from *sab?los, from Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”). Cognate with Portuguese sável and Spanish sábalo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?le??/

Noun

sable f (plural sables)

1. allis shad (Alosa alosa)
   • 1274, M. Sponer (ed.), "Documentos antiguos de Galicia", Anuari de l'Oficina Románica de Lingüística i Literatura (Barcelona), 7, page 76:

     Outro?i nos dardes cadá ãno por kalendas maya? una duzea de bono? [s]auéé? ? outra duzea de lanpreas

     Also, you shall give to us yearly, by the calends of May, a dozen good shads and another dozen lampreys

   • 1319, Ermelindo Portela Silva (ed.), La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis. Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 393:

     vos que ayades esa renda da dizima dos savees e do pescado que y sayr en vossa vida e despos vosa morte que fique a nos o dito arynno

     you should have this rent of a tenth of the shads and of the fish that is captured there, in your life, and after your death this sand island should return to us

   Synonyms: sabenla, tasca, zamborca

References

• “savees” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “sable” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “sable” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sábel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “sabenla” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old French

Noun

sable m (oblique plural sables, nominative singular sables, nominative plural sable)

1. sable (fur of a sable)

Portuguese

Adjective

sable m or f (plural sables, comparable)

1. (heraldry) sable (of black colour on a coat of arms)

   Synonym: saibro

Noun

sable m (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) sable (the black colour on coats of arms)

   Synonym: saibro

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sable/, [?sa.??le]

Adjective

sable (plural sables)

1. (heraldry) sable

Noun

sable m (plural sables)

1. saber, cutlass
2. (fencing) saber

Derived terms

• sablazo
• diente de sable
• tragasables
• sable de luz