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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (6)

1. an airplane powered by one or more jet engines;
[syn: jet, jet plane, jet-propelled plane]

2. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid);
[syn: jet, squirt, spurt, spirt]

3. a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation;

4. atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward;
[syn: jet, blue jet, reverse lightning]

5. street names for ketamine;
[syn: K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C]

6. an artificially produced flow of water;
[syn: fountain, jet]


VERB (2)

1. issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth;
- Example: "Water jetted forth"
- Example: "flames were jetting out of the building"
[syn: jet, gush]

2. fly a jet plane;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal;
[syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jet \Jet\, n. Same as 2d Get. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jet \Jet\, n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. ja["i]et, jais, L. gagates, fr. Gr. ?; -- so called from ? or ?, a town and river in Lycia.] [written also jeat, jayet.] (Min.) 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. [1913 Webster] Jet ant (Zool.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jet \Jet\, n. [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. Abject, Ejaculate, Gist, Jess, Jut.] [1913 Webster] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. --Knight. [1913 Webster] Jet propeller (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump. Jet pump, 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jet \Jet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jetting.] [F. jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw. See 3d Jet, and cf. Jut.] [1913 Webster] 1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] he jets under his advanced plumes! --Shak. [1913 Webster] To jet upon a prince's right. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] --Wiseman. [1913 Webster] 3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jet \Jet\, v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. [1913 Webster] A dozen angry models jetted steam. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

jet adj 1: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty] n 1: an airplane powered by one or more jet engines [syn: jet, jet plane, jet-propelled plane] 2: the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn: jet, squirt, spurt, spirt] 3: a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation 4: atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward [syn: jet, blue jet, reverse lightning] 5: street names for ketamine [syn: K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C] 6: an artificially produced flow of water [syn: fountain, jet] v 1: issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" [syn: jet, gush] 2: fly a jet plane