JET (jetted, jetting)

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Irregular inflected forms: jetted    , jetting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does jet mean? 

• JET (noun)
  The noun JET has 6 senses:

1. an airplane powered by one or more jet engines

2. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)

3. a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation

4. atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward

5. street names for ketamine

6. an artificially produced flow of water

  Familiarity information: JET used as a noun is common.

• JET (adjective)
  The adjective JET has 1 sense:

1. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

  Familiarity information: JET used as an adjective is very rare.

• JET (verb)
  The verb JET has 2 senses:

1. issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth

2. fly a jet plane

  Familiarity information: JET used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An airplane powered by one or more jet engines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

jet; jet-propelled plane; jet plane

Hypernyms ("jet" is a kind of...):

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

Meronyms (parts of "jet"):

jet engine (a gas turbine produces a stream of hot gas that propels a jet plane by reaction propulsion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jet"):

fan-jet; fanjet; turbofan; turbojet (an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine)

jetliner (a large jet plane that carries passengers)

jumbo jet; jumbojet (a very large jet plane)

twinjet (a jet plane propelled by two jet engines)

Derivation:

jet (fly a jet plane)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

jet; spirt; spurt; squirt

Hypernyms ("jet" is a kind of...):

discharge; outpouring; run (the pouring forth of a fluid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jet"):

spray (a jet of vapor)

spritz (a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water))

Derivation:

jet (issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("jet" is a kind of...):

brown coal; lignite; wood coal (intermediate between peat and bituminous coal)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

blue jet; jet; reverse lightning

Hypernyms ("jet" is a kind of...):

atmospheric electricity (electrical discharges in the atmosphere)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Street names for ketamine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cat valium; green; honey oil; jet; K; special K; super acid; super C

Hypernyms ("jet" is a kind of...):

Ketalar; ketamine; ketamine hydrochloride (a general anesthetic and tranquilizer (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly; used mainly by veterinarians or for minor surgery with geriatric or pediatric patients; taken in large doses it causes hallucinations similar to those associated with the use of PCP)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An artificially produced flow of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fountain; jet

Hypernyms ("jet" is a kind of...):

flow; flowing (the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases))

Derivation:

jet (issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth)

• JET (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

Synonyms:

coal-black; jet; jet-black; pitchy; sooty

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

• JET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jet    ... he / she / it jets   
Past simple: jetted   
Past participle: jetted   
-ing form: jetting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

gush; jet

Context example:

flames were jetting out of the building

Hypernyms (to "jet" is one way to...):

course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

jet (an artificially produced flow of water)

jet (the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fly a jet plane

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "jet" is one way to...):

aviate; fly; pilot (operate an airplane)

Domain category:

air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

jet (an airplane powered by one or more jet engines)

 Context examples 

Where in the jet does this occur?

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

New research using data from NASA's Cassini mission suggests most of the eruptions from Saturn's moon Enceladus might be diffuse curtains rather than discrete jets.

(Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions', NASA)

At any given moment, as many as 10 million wild jets of solar material burst from the sun’s surface.

(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)

As I followed, I saw the woman take the reins, while the man looked after us, and squirted a jet of tobacco-juice from between his teeth in coachman fashion.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This cycle runs autonomously in the cell, causing jet lag during travel, but can be regulated to retrain to changes in the light cycle.

(Circadian Rhythm Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The team also used data from the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope to track warmer gas — which is being launched out of the black hole in the form of jets.

(ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain, ESO)

This is why I feel you may be jetting to foreign shores to ring in the New Year, possibly as a surprise gift from your romantic partner.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If rhythms in different organs are out of sync, do plants suffer from a kind of internal jet lag?

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

“Why it's as black as jet! And so large it is, you might see it anywheres.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He has been in the habit of lighting his pipe at lamps and gas-jets.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)