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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Jet \Jet\, n. Same as 2d {Get}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Jet \Jet\, n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. ja["i]et, jais, L. gagates, fr. Gr. ?; -- so called from ? or ?, a town and river in Lycia.] [written also {jeat}, {jayet}.] (Min.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also {black amber}. [1913 Webster] {Jet ant} (Zool.), a blackish European ant ({Formica fuliginosa}), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Jet \Jet\, n. [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. {Abject}, {Ejaculate}, {Gist}, {Jess}, {Jut}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet. [1913 Webster] 2. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. --Knight. [1913 Webster] {Jet propeller} (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump. {Jet pump}, a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Jet \Jet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jetted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jetting}.] [F. jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw. See 3d {Jet}, and cf. {Jut}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] he jets under his advanced plumes! --Shak. [1913 Webster] To jet upon a prince's right. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] --Wiseman. [1913 Webster] 3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Jet \Jet\, v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. [1913 Webster] A dozen angry models jetted steam. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: jet adj 1: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: {coal-black}, {jet}, {jet-black}, {pitchy}, {sooty}] n 1: an airplane powered by one or more jet engines [syn: {jet}, {jet plane}, {jet-propelled plane}] 2: the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn: {jet}, {squirt}, {spurt}, {spirt}] 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 [syn: {jet}, {blue jet}, {reverse lightning}] 5: street names for ketamine [syn: {K}, {jet}, {super acid}, {special K}, {honey oil}, {green}, {cat valium}, {super C}] 6: an artificially produced flow of water [syn: {fountain}, {jet}] v 1: issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" [syn: {jet}, {gush}] 2: fly a jet plane From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: JET Java Emitter Templates (Java, EMF) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: JET Joint Engineering Team From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: jet /jɛt/ jetplane