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Jet

noun

1.

An airplane powered by one or more jet engines. Synonyms: jet-propelled plane, jet plane.

2.

The occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid). Synonyms: spirt, spurt, squirt.

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. Synonyms: blue jet, reverse lightning.

5.

Street names for ketamine. Synonyms: cat valium, green, honey oil, K, special K, super acid, super C.

6.

An artificially produced flow of water. Synonym: fountain.

verb

(past & past part. jetted; pres. part. jetting)

1.

Issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth. Synonym: gush. "Flames were jetting out of the building"

2.

Fly a jet plane.

adjective

1.

Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal. Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty.

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"Jet" Quotes from Famous Books

... maintained the whole continues to subsist, no matter what position any particular particle may go into, just as a fountain continues to exist no matter whether any particular drop of water is down in the basin or at the top of the jet. This is the generic action which keeps the race going as a whole. But the question is, What is going to become of ourselves? Then because the law of the whole is also the law of the part we may at once say that what is wanted is ...

— The Creative Process in the Individual • Thomas Troward

... famous Statuary could not form the Figure of a Man more admirably turn'd from Head to Foot. His Face was not of that brown rusty Black which most of that Nation are, but a perfect Ebony, or polished Jet. His Eyes were the most aweful that could be seen, and very piercing; the White of 'em being like Snow, as were his Teeth. His Nose was rising and Roman, instead of African and flat: His Mouth the finest shaped that could be seen; far from those great ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn

... cries the umpire, "cease your pother! The creature's neither one nor t'other. I caught the animal last night, 15 And viewed it o'er by candle light; I marked it well—'twas black as jet; You stare—but, sirs, I've got it yet, And can produce it." "Pray, sir, do; I'll lay my life the thing is blue." 20 "And I'll engage that when you've seen The ...

— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell

... huge, jet-black negro, and, unlike all the negroes Harvey had met, did not talk, contenting himself with smiles and dumb-show invitations to ...

— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling

... broke from the others, and for a few minutes there was no thought of the Indians, whose bullets were still falling in the water, for the most part short of the boats. A sharp tap on the side of Harry's canoe, followed by a jet ...

— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty

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