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jet

/ˈd͡ʒɛt/

jet noun: a collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.

jet: a collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc
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Noun (1)

jet (plural jets)

  1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
    • In the floor of the valley the line passes hills of fantastic shape, like sleeping camels and inverted washbasins, and you can see the beautiful lakes Naivasha and Elementeita; at Eburru jets of steam spurt out of the ground.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265
  2. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
  3. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
    • One of the other two nations to operate the F-35B, the United Kingdom, has had US versions of the jet operating off its HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier.2018 November 29, Brad Lendon and Zachary Cohen, “Japan preparing to put US-designed stealth jets on an ‘aircraft carrier’”, in CNN
    • “Rather than writing off both jets as a loss … teams made a bold decision in 2022 to remove the nose from AF-27 and put it onto AF-211 to maximize savings and add back an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report from the F-35 JPO said.2025 April 10, Brad Lendon, “‘Frankenjet’ stealth fighter made from two wrecked warplanes joins US Air Force fleet”, in CNN
  4. A turbine.
  5. A rocket engine.
  6. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
  7. 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. (dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

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.
    • Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
  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.
    • The Town has the outer Branch of the River behind it, and the Harbour before it, jetting into which latter are cloſe Keys for the weighing and receiving of Cuſtomage on Merchandize, and for the meeting and conferring of Merchants and Traders.1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Captain Bartho[lomew] Roberts, and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC...
    • And last year, at 5:26 a.m. on August 10, a whole mountainside toppled into the tideline of the shrunken Sawyer Glacier, not far from the Alaskan capital, Juneau. The impact jetted a tsunami a staggering 500 meters up the walls of the fjord.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic
  6. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
    • Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous
      It is to jet upon a prince’s right?c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  7. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
    • 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
  8. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
    • The cure is to jet the carburetor excessively rich so that the mixture will be correct at the top end, but this richens the curve throughout the RPM range.1970, Bill Fisher, How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines, page 30
  9. (intransitive, slang) To leave; depart.
    • Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
    • Pimp prolly jetted before the girl hit the ground good, and if Smoove was still standing on the porch when his brother got downstairs, he'd taken off with him.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 106

Adjective (1)

jet (not comparable)

  1. Propelled by turbine engines.
    • jet airplane

Noun (2)

jet (countable and uncountable, plural jets)

  1. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
    • There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.1735, [John Barrow], “JEAT”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume II (I–S), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel]...
  2. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

Adjective (2)

jet (comparative jetter or more jet, superlative jettest or most jet)

  1. Very dark black in colour.
    • All the direct blacks require working in strong baths to give anything like black shades; they all have, more or less, a bluish tone, which can be changed to a jetter shade by the addition of a yellow or green dye in small proportions, which has been done in one of the recipes given above.1901, Franklin Beech, The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
    • 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, published 2011, page 23
    Synonyms:
    jet-black, jetty

Noun (3)

jet (plural jets)

  1. an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Jet

Jet (countable and uncountable, plural Jets)

  1. (uncountable) A town in Oklahoma.
  2. (countable) A male given name.
  3. (countable, rare) A female given name.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: JET

JET

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Journal of Evolution and Technology.

jet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

jet in Hindi

stream of fluid
प्रवाह pravāh

jet in Tamil

ஜெட்

jet in Marathi

जेट

jet in Urdu

جیٹ
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jet in Bengali
জেট
jet in Telugu
జెట్
jet in Malayalam
ജെറ്റ്
jet in Kannada
ಜೆಟ್
jet in Punjabi
ਜੈੱਟ, ਜੈਟ
jet in Gujarati
જેટ
jet in Odia
ଜେଟ୍, ଜେଟ
jet in Nepali
जेट
jet in Tagalog
asabatse
jet in Arabic
مُحَرِّك نَفَّاث muḥarrik naffāṯ, دفق
jet in Malay
pancutan
jet in Persian
شبق šabaq, شبقی šabaqi
jet in Thai
นิล nin
jet in Vietnamese
động cơ phản lực

Examples of jet in a sentence

  • The jet fired a salvo of rockets at the truck convoy.
  • They played the jet of water onto the seat of the fire.
  • Would you really want to be behind the wheel of a fighter jet?

All 40 example sentences with jet

Synonyms of jet

Forms of jet

Noun
pluraljets
alternative formjess
alternative form (obsolete)jeat
Verb
third-person singular presentjets
present participlejetting
past participlejetted
pastjetted
Adjective
comparativejetter
comparativemore jet
superlativejettest
superlativemost jet
Proper noun
pluralJets

Plural of jet: jets

Origin of jet

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.

From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.

Borrowed from French jet.

Words formed from jet

Phrases with jet

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Words that rhyme with jet

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Questions about jet

What does jet mean?
Jet means a collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
What is jet in Hindi?
Jet in Hindi is प्रवाह (pravāh). See Jet meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is jet?
Jet can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce jet?
Jet is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛt/.
What is the plural of jet?
The plural of jet is jets.

Words near jet in the dictionary

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  8. jet aces
  9. jet age
  10. jet ant
  11. jet ants

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jet (page history and authors); Jet (page history and authors); JET (page history and authors); jet (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jet (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jet (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jet (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jet (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jet (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jet (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jet (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jet (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jet (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jet (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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