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noun
- 1. a rapid stream of liquid or gas forced out of a small opening: "a high-pressure shower with pulsating jets" Similar
- 2. a jet engine.
verb
- 1. travel by jet aircraft: "the newlyweds jetted off for a honeymoon in New York" Similar
- 2. spurt out in jets: "blood jetted from his nostrils" Similar
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JET definition: 1. an aircraft with a jet engine that is able to fly very fast: 2. a thin stream of something…. Learn more.
The meaning of JET is an airplane powered by one or more jet engines. How to use jet in a sentence.
A jet is an aircraft that gets its power from jet engines rather than propellers. Jets are fast — that's probably why as a verb, jet means "to move quickly," either by taking a jet, like the celebrities who jet around the world, or the more ordinary "if I don't jet, I'll be late for school."
A jet is a hole through which liquid can pass at a controlled rate, as in a carburetor. You can enrich the output from the carburetor jet. Air and fuel are mixed in the carburetor and sent out through a jet as a high-pressure spray. The fuel is metered into the incoming air stream from a single jet.
n. 1. A dense black coal that takes a high polish and is used for jewelry. 2. A deep black. adj. 1. Made of or resembling a dense, black, highly polished coal. 2. Black as coal; jet-black: jet hair.
Jet definition: a stream of a liquid, gas, or small solid particles forcefully shooting forth from a nozzle, orifice, etc.. See examples of JET used in a sentence.
liquid or gas that is forced out of something in a thin, strong line. jet. verb [ I ] uk / dʒet / us present participle jetting | past tense and past participle jetted. jet in/off, etc. to fly somewhere in an aircraft: She jetted off to Athens for a week. (Definition of jet from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
[countable] a strong narrow stream of gas, liquid or flame that comes very quickly out of a small opening. The opening is also called a jet. The pipe burst and jets of water shot across the room. to clean the gas jets on the cooker. Little jets of steam spurted from the engine. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
a : a very strong stream of liquid or gas that comes out through a narrow opening. The telescope has photographed jets of gas shooting out from the distant star. b : a tube that contains and directs a very strong stream of liquid or gas. One of the fountain's jets was blocked. — compare 3 jet.
a stream of a liquid, gas, or small solid particles forcefully shooting forth from a nozzle, orifice, etc. something that issues in such a stream, as water or gas. a spout or nozzle for emitting liquid or gas: a gas jet. Aeronautics See jet plane. See jet engine.
