Jet
[dʒet] or [dʒɛt]
Definition
(noun.) an airplane powered by one or more jet engines.
(noun.) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid).
(noun.) atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward.
(noun.) a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation.
(verb.) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; 'Water jetted forth'; 'flames were jetting out of the building'.
(verb.) fly a jet plane.
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Definition
(n.) Same as 2d Get.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
(n.) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
(v. i.) To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
(v. i.) To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
(v. i.) To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
(v. t.) To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
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Definition
n. a rich black variety of mineral coal very hard and compact taking a brilliant polish used for ornaments.—adj. Jet′-black.—n. Jet′tiness.—adj. Jet′ty made of jet or black as jet.
n. a spouting stream: a spout at the end of a gas-pipe emitting the flame.—v.t. to throw out shoot forth.—v.i. to strut to encroach arrogantly upon.—n. Jettatu′ra the Evil-eye.
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Examples
- If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She had on a black velvet polonaise with jet buttons, and a tiny green monkey muff; I never saw her so stylishly dressed, Janey continued. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- As early as 1680 Sir Isaac Newton proposed a steam carriage in which the propelling power was the reactionary discharge of a rearwardly directed jet of steam. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- By connecting X to the gas-pipe we drew sparks from the gas-pipes in any part of the room by drawing an iron wire over the brass jet of the cock. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a jet as in Newcomen’s engine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Thus the water from an ordinary main may be given such an increased pressure that a jet from a hydrant may be carried to the tops of high houses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He had a quantity of hair and moustache--jet black, except at the shaggy ends, where it had a tinge of red--and a high hook nose. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- These vapours are then conducted by separate jets to different points in the stove where the heat is to be applied. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A similar stove with jets of flame from vapour burners has been used to soften hard asphalt pavement when it is desired to take it up. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is quite obvious that such a system would be commercially impracticable where small units, similar to gas jets, were employed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He has been in the habit of lighting his pipe at lamps and gas-jets. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A plan is sometimes adopted of placing a small metal disc a short distance above the jets, so as to spread the flame. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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