jet | |
1. n. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc. | |
2. n. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid. | |
3. n. (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers. | |
4. n. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion. | |
5. n. A turbine. | |
6. n. A rocket engine. | |
7. n. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air. | |
8. n. (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon. | |
9. n. (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. | |
10. n. (printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To spray out of a container. | |
12. v. To spray with liquid from a container. | |
Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion | |
14. v. (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around | |
15. v. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out. | |
16. v. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. | |
17. v. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. | |
18. v. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet | |
19. v. (slang) To leave. | |
20. adj. Propelled by turbine engines. | |
jet airplane | |
21. n. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery. | |
22. n. The colour of jet coal, deep grey. | |
(color panel, 3E3E3E) | |
23. adj. Very dark black in colour. | |