Sekirov Dictionary

jet

/ˈd͡ʒɛt/

noun13

  1. a plane that is pushed through the air at high speed by hot gas shooting out of its engines
  2. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
  3. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
  4. A turbine.
  5. A rocket engine.
  6. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
  7. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
  8. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
  9. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
  10. A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
  11. 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.
  12. (old-fashioned) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
  13. (old-fashioned) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

verb9

  1. To spray out of a container.
  2. To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
  3. (slang) To leave; depart.
  4. To spray with liquid from a container.
  5. To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
  6. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
  7. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
  8. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
  9. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

adjective2

  1. Very dark black in colour.
  2. Propelled by turbine engines.
forms

jetted · jetting · jets · jettest · jetter · more jet · jettest · most jet

Phrases with jet

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