jet
noun
[ dʒɛt ]
• a rapid stream of liquid or gas forced out of a small opening.
• "a jet of boiling water spurted over his hand"
Similar:
stream,
spurt,
squirt,
spray,
fountain,
spout,
gush,
outpouring,
rush,
surge,
burst,
spill,
flow,
flood,
cascade,
torrent,
current,
• a jet engine.
jet
verb
• spurt out in jets.
• "blood jetted from his nostrils"
Similar:
squirt,
spurt,
shoot,
spray,
fountain,
erupt,
gush,
pour,
stream,
rush,
pump,
surge,
spew,
spill,
flow,
course,
well,
spring,
burst,
issue,
emanate,
sloosh,
• travel by jet aircraft.
• "the newly weds jetted off for a honeymoon in New York"
Similar:
fly,
travel/go by jet,
travel/go by plane,
travel/go by air,
Origin:
late 16th century (as a verb meaning ‘jut out’): from French jeter ‘to throw’, based on Latin jactare, frequentative of jacere ‘to throw’.
jet
noun
• a hard black semi-precious variety of lignite, capable of being carved and highly polished.
• "jet beads"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French jaiet, from Latin Gagates, from Greek gagatēs ‘from Gagai’, a town in Asia Minor.
JET
abbreviation
• Joint European Torus, a machine for conducting experiments in nuclear fusion, at Culham in Oxfordshire.
