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Definition of Jet

1. Noun. An airplane powered by one or more jet engines.

2. Verb. Issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth. "Flames were jetting out of the building"

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

4. Noun. The occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid).

5. Verb. Fly a jet plane.

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

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

8. Noun. Street names for ketamine.

9. Noun. An artificially produced flow of water.

Definition of Jet

1. n. Same as 2d Get.

2. n. 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.

3. n. 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.

4. v. i. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

5. v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.

Definition of Jet

1. to spurt forth in a stream [v JETTED, JETTING, JETS]

Medical Definition of Jet

1. A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black colour, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber. Jet ant, a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees. Origin: OF. Jet, jayet, F. Jaiet, jais, L. Gagates, fr. Gr.; so called from or, a town and river in Lycia Alternative forms: jeat, jayet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Jet

Jesuit Jesuit's bark Jesuitic Jesuitical Jesuitism Jesuitry jesuits Jesuits' bark Jesuits' nut Jesuit order

Jesuit tea Jesus Jesus Christ Jesus of Nazareth jet (current term) jet (current term) jet-black jet-propelled jet-propelled plane jetbead

jetbeads jete jeterus jetes jetfoil jetfoils Jeth jetlag jetlags jetlike

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