jet
1 (jĕt)
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman geet, from Latin gagātēs, from Greek, after Gagas, a town of Lycia.]
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.
jet
2 (jĕt)
[French, from Old French, from jeter, to spout forth, throw, from Vulgar Latin* iectāre, alteration of Latin iactāre frequentative of iacere, to throw.]
noun
- A high-velocity fluid stream forced under pressure out of a small-diameter opening or nozzle.
- An outlet, such as a nozzle, used for emitting such a stream.
- Something emitted in or as if in a high-velocity fluid stream: “such myriad and such vivid jets of images” (Henry Roth)
- A jet-propelled vehicle, especially a jet-propelled aircraft.
- A jet engine.
verb: jet·ted, jet·ting, jets.
intransitive verb
- To travel by jet aircraft: jetted from Houston to Los Angeles.
- To move very quickly.
transitive verb
- To propel outward or squirt, as under pressure: “Any man might . . . hang around . . . jetting tobacco juice” (Ross Lockridge, Jr.)
