different between jet vs swarthy

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

Etymology

Alteration of swarty, from swart +? -y, from Old English sweart (“black”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sw??ði/

Adjective

swarthy (comparative swarthier, superlative swarthiest)

1. Tawny, dusky, dark.
2. Dark-skinned.
3. Darker-skinned than white, but lighter-skinned than tawny.
   • 1751, Benjamin Franklin, "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind"

     the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People

   • 2016 "Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career, Second Edition" page 11

     Such was the religion that a young, swarthy man of medium height took with him as he trudged off to the University of Erfurt in May 1501.

4. (nonstandard) Evil, malicious.
5. (nonstandard) Weathered, rough.

Synonyms

• (dark-skinned): black, dusky, sable, sooty

Translations

Noun

swarthy (plural swarthies)

1. A swarthy person.
   • 1900, The Whole Prose Romances of François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, page 70

     Finally I saw all our Italian women and my mother, torn in pieces, cut up, massacred by the monsters who contended for them ; the captives, my companions, the Moors who had taken us, the soldiers, the sailors, the blacks, the whites, the swarthies, the mulattoes, and lastly, my captain himself, were all slain

   • 1962, The Skipper volume 22, page 21

     Then one of the swarthies popped a couple of shovels of coal into the small fo'c's'le stove — for it was cold that July night Down Under — and everyone began to talk.

   • 1980, The secret of Sam Marlow: The Further Adventures of the Man with Bogart's Face, page 12

     Hobby Lobby made a slight motion with his left hand and the swarthies froze in the desert.

   • 1997, The Chariton Review, Volume 23, Issue 1, page 71

     The swarthies just stood waiting for whatever was in the air. I wanted to get up and walk away. But I didn't even budge.

   • 2010, Sympathy for the Devil, page 366

     Real controversial stuff, sure, but you know what, he was actually in the dead center of polite opinion when it came to the Negroes and the swarthies and money-grubbing kikes and all those other lovely stereotypes.

   • 2014, Dead Men Don't Eat Lunch, page 52

     The swarthies didn't bother to threaten us this time; instead, they mocked us with catcalls and whistles, as we squeezed past them in abject humiliation.

   • 2015, Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting, page 24

     A school friend of mine, Gavin, one of the swarthies, organised one May afternoon a tea party at his parents' house in Cheyne Walk.