Jet

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A high-velocity fluid stream forced under pressure out of a small-diameter opening or nozzle.
  • noun. An outlet, such as a nozzle, used for emitting such a stream.
  • noun. Something emitted in or as if in a high-velocity fluid stream.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A jet-propelled vehicle, especially a jet-propelled aircraft.
  • noun. A jet engine.
  • intransitive verb. To travel by jet aircraft.
  • intransitive verb. To move very quickly.
  • intransitive verb. To propel outward or squirt, as under pressure.
  • noun. A dense black coal that takes a high polish and is used for jewelry.
  • noun. A deep black.
  • adjective. Made of or resembling a dense, black, highly polished coal.
  • adjective. Black as coal; jet-black.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To throw out; shoot out; spurt forth, especially from a small orifice; spout; spurt.
  • To shoot forward; shoot out; project; jut.
  • To strut; stalk; assume a haughty or pompous carriage; be proud.
  • To encroach offensively.
  • To jerk; jolt.
  • To turn round or about.
  • noun. A solid, dry, black, inflammable fossil substance, harder than asphalt, susceptible of high polish, and glossy in its fracture, which is conchoidal or undulating.
  • noun. The color of jet; a deep, rich, glossy black.
  • Made of the mineral jet: as, jet beads; jet ornaments.
  • noun. A sudden shooting forth; a spouting or spurting, as of water or flame from a small orifice.
  • noun. That which so issues or spurts: as, a jet of water; a jet of blood; a jet of gas.
  • noun. A spout, or the end of a spout or nozle, for the emission of a liquid or gas: as, a rose-jet; a gas-jet.
  • noun. In metal-casting: A channel or tube for introducing melted metal into a mold.
  • noun. A small projecting piece of the metal, consisting of what remained in the hole through which the liquid metal was run into the mold: this has to be filed off before the casting can be finished. Compare runner.
  • noun. In pyrotechnics, a rocket-case filled with a burning composition, and attached to the circumference of a wheel or the end of a movable arm to give it motion.
  • noun. A large water-ladle.
  • noun. A descent; a declivity.
  • noun. Fashion; manner; custom; style.
  • noun. Artifice; contrivance.
  • noun. [A form of or substitute for gist, of the same ult. origin.] Point; drift; scope.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Same as 2d get.
  • transitive verb. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
  • noun. A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.
  • noun. a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.
  • intransitive verb. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
  • intransitive verb. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
  • intransitive verb. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
  • noun. A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.
  • noun. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
  • noun. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
  • noun. a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.
  • noun. a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
  • noun. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
  • adjective. Very dark black in colour.
  • noun. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
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