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Jet is defined as a type of aircraft or plane, or a high-pressure stream of liquid or gas, or is a nozzle out of which a high pressure stream comes.

(noun)

An Air Force fighter plane is an example of a jet.
A high-pressure stream of air that comes out of a Jacuzzi tub and makes bubbles is an example of a jet.
An opening in a Jacuzzi tub that allows bubbles to come out is an example of a jet.

The definition of jet is to travel by aircraft.

(verb)

If you fly off to Paris for the weekend, this is an example of when you jet.

See jet in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb, intransitive verb jetted, jetting

to spout, gush, or shoot out in a stream, as liquid or gas
to travel or convey by jet airplane

Origin: < MFr jeter, to throw < OFr < VL *jectare, for L jactare, freq. of jacere, to throw < IE base *yē-, to throw, do > Gr hienai, to set in motion, throw, send

noun

a stream of liquid or gas emitted or forced out, as from a spout
a spout or nozzle for emitting a stream of water or gas
a jet-propelled airplane
in full, jet (air)plane

Origin: ME < OFr get, giet, a throw, spurt < L jactus, a throw, cast

adjective

jet-propelled
of or having to do with jet propulsion or jet-propelled aircraft: the jet age

noun

a hard, black variety of lignite, which takes a high polish: sometimes used in jewelry
also called jet coal
a deep, lustrous black

Origin: ME get < OFr jaiet < L gagates < Gr gagatēs, jet, after Gagas, town and river in Lycia, Asia Minor

adjective

made of jet
black like jet

See jet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A dense black coal that takes a high polish and is used for jewelry.
A deep black.

adjective

Made of or resembling a dense, black, highly polished coal.
Black as coal; jet-black: jet hair.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Anglo-Norman geet

Origin: , from Latin gagātēs

Origin: , from Greek

Origin: , after Gagas, a town of Lycia

noun

a. A high-velocity fluid stream forced under pressure out of a small-diameter opening or nozzle.
b. An outlet, such as a nozzle, used for emitting such a stream.
c. Something emitted in or as if in a high-velocity fluid stream: “such myriad and such vivid jets of images” (Henry Roth).
a. A jet-propelled vehicle, especially a jet-propelled aircraft.
b. A jet engine.