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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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train
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *tragin?, from *trag?, from Latin trah? (“to pull, to draw”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?n, IPA(key): /t?e?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
- Hyphenation: train
Noun
train (plural trains)
- Elongated portion.
- The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground. [from 14th c.]
- 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:
- They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...].
- 2011, Imogen Fox, The Guardian, 20 Apr 2011:
- Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train.
- 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:
- A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder. [from 15th c.]
- 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Richard Price:
- [E]mancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland.
- 1873, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for the little ones:
- A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion.
- 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Richard Price:
- The tail of a bird.
- (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere.
- (now rare) An animal's trail or track. [from 16th c.]
- The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground. [from 14th c.]
- Connected sequence of people or things.
- A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers. [from 14th c.]
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 5 scene 1
- Sir, I invite your Highness and your train / To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest /For this one night
- 2009, Anne Easter Smith, The King's Grace:
- Grace was glad the citizenry did not know Katherine Gordon was in the king's train, but she was beginning to understand Henry's motive for including the pretender's wife.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 5 scene 1
- A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession. [from 15th c.]
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something. [from 15th c.]
- 1872, Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals:
- A man may be absorbed in the deepest thought, and his brow will remain smooth until he encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning, or is interrupted by some disturbance, and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.
- 2012, Rory Carroll, The Guardian, 18 Jun 2012:
- "Where was I?" he asked several times during the lunch, losing his train of thought.
- 1872, Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals:
- (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) State of progress, status, situation (in phrases introduced by in a + adjective). [18th-19th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London, Volume 4, Letter 26, p. 139,[1]
- As we had been in a good train for several days past, I thought it not prudent to break with him, for little matters.
- 1779, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Shenstone-Green: or, the New Paradise Lost, London, R. Baldwin, Volume 1, Chapter 7, p. 46,[2]
- I took care that my absence should neither be lamented by the poor nor the rich. I put every thing in a fair train of going on smoothly, and actually set out, with my steward, for my estate in Wales at dawning of the day.
- 1787, George Washington, letter to Alexander Hamilton dated 10 July, 1787, in The Writings of George Washington, Boston: American Stationers’ Company, 1837, Volume 9, p. 260,[3]
- When I refer you to the state of the counsels, which prevailed at the period you left this city, and add that they are now if possible in a worse train than ever, you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed.
- 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, London: T. Egerton, Volume 3, Chapter 6, p. 121,[4]
- […] every thing was now in a fairer train for Miss Crawford’s marrying Edmund than it had ever been before.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London, Volume 4, Letter 26, p. 139,[1]
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence. [from 18th c.]
- A series of electrical pulses. [from 19th c.]
- A series of specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together. [from 19th c.]
- A line of connected railway cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail travel. [from 19th c.]
- 2009, Hanif Kureishi, The Guardian, 24 Jan 2009:
- This winter we thought we'd go to Venice by train, for the adventure.
- 2009, Hanif Kureishi, The Guardian, 24 Jan 2009:
- A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
- (computing) A software release schedule.
- 2008, Michael Bushong, Cathy Gadecki, Aviva Garrett, JUNOS For Dummies (page 16)
- What steps do development engineers follow when adding new feature code? How do they support different software versions or release trains?
- 2008, Michael Bushong, Cathy Gadecki, Aviva Garrett, JUNOS For Dummies (page 16)
- (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape. [from 20th c.]
- 1988, X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (New York, N.Y.), Bomb: Issues 26-29, link
- Then Swooney agreed, "Yeah, let's run a train up the fat cunt."
- 2005, Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica 2006: Volume 2001, link
- “You want us to run a train on you?”
- 2010, Diesel King, A Good Time in the Hood, page 12
- We eventually began to decide that with the endless supply of men we had there was no need to only run trains, or gangbang, the insatiables.
- 1988, X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (New York, N.Y.), Bomb: Issues 26-29, link
- A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers. [from 14th c.]
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Irish: traein
- ? Welsh: trên
Translations
Verb
train (third-person singular simple present trains, present participle training, simple past and past participle trained)
- (intransitive) To practice an ability.
- (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
- (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
- To proceed in sequence.
- (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
- 1805, Francis Jeffrey, article in The Edinburgh Review
- He trains the young branches to the right hand or to the left.
- 1805, Francis Jeffrey, article in The Edinburgh Review
- (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
- (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
- 2000, "Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link", WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction (on newsgroup comp.sys.cbm)
- I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed and trained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils.
- 2000, "Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link", WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction (on newsgroup comp.sys.cbm)
- (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
- (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
- c. 1626, John Ford 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- This feast, I'll gage my life, / Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.
- 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman
- Thou hast been trained from thy post by some deep guile — some well-devised stratagem — the cry of some distressed maiden has caught thine ear, or the laughful look of some merry one has taken thine eye.
- c. 1626, John Ford 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Derived terms
See also
- exercise
- work out
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English trayne (“treachery”), from Anglo-Norman traine, Middle French traïne, from traïr (“to betray”).
Noun
train (plural trains)
- (obsolete) Treachery; deceit. [14th-19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- (obsolete) A trick or stratagem. [14th-19th c.]
- (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare. [14th-18th c.]
- (obsolete) A lure; a decoy. [15th-18th c.]
Further reading
- Train on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Artin, Tarin, Tiran, Trina, atrin, intra-, riant, tairn, tarin
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
train
- first-person singular present indicative of trainen
- imperative of trainen
Anagrams
- tiran
French
Etymology
From Middle French train, from Old French train, from the verb trahiner (“to pull, drag”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???/
Noun
train m (plural trains)
- train (rail mounted vehicle)
- pace
- (Louisiana) noise
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Spanish: tren
- ? Moroccan Arabic: ????? (tr?n)
- ? Tagalog: tren
- ? Tetelcingo Nahuatl: treni?
- ? Yaqui: tréen
- ? Sicilian: trenu
Further reading
- “train” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- riant
Norman
Etymology
From Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from trainer (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *tragin?re, from *tragere, from Latin trah?, trahere (“pull, draw”, verb).
Pronunciation
Noun
train m (plural trains)
- (Jersey) train
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