Meaning

12 senses

  1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.

  2. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.

    жиклёрžikljór, па́трубокpátrubok, форсу́нкаforsúnka

  3. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.

    an airplane powered by one or more jet engines

  4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.

    A turbine.

    Strahl

    струя́strujá

    струміньstruminʹ

  5. A rocket engine.

    реакти́вный дви́гательreaktívnyj dvígatelʹ

  6. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.

    жиклёрžikljór

  7. A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.

  8. (dated)Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.

  9. (dated)The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

  10. (countable, uncountable)A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.

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

  11. (countable, uncountable)The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

    Gagat, Jett

    гага́тgagát

  12. An operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.

    струяstruja, джетdžet

    струміньstruminʹ

Examples

131 sentences

  1. Her son is a jet pilot.

    Її син - пілот реактивного літака.

    ruЕё сын - пилот реактивного самолёта.

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  2. Tom has a private jet.

    У Тома є приватний літак.

    ruУ Тома есть личный самолет.

    deTom hat einen Privatjet.

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  3. The jet landed at Tokyo.

    ruСамолёт сел в Токио.

    deDer Jet landete in Tokyo.

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  4. I'm still suffering from jet lag.

    ruЯ всё ещё страдаю от смены часовых поясов.

    deIch leide immer noch am Jetlag.

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  5. Tom is suffering from jet lag.

    deTom leidet am Zeitzonenunterschied.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
stream of fluid:
Русский
By meaning 5
spout or nozzle:
stream of fluid:
engine:
coal:
math operation:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
stream of fluid:
coal:

Origin

Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from V

Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, *jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.

From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.

Borrowed from French jet.

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Forms

plural: jets
Singularjet
Pluraljets

regular

Synonyms

15 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

102 related words
Derivedautem jetbiojetbizjetblue jetcounterjetdijetelectrojetfanjetfighter jetgas jetgigantic jethelijethoverjethydrojetinkjetjet acejet agejet antjet beadjet beltjet blastjet boatjetboaterjet-borne

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
jestjesterjettisonjetty
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