Meaning

5 senses

  1. (transitive)Sometimes followed by out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest.

  2. (broadly, transitive)To provide (a riverbank, seashore, etc.) with a jetty (“breakwater; dock or wharf”) (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).

  3. (intransitive)Sometimes followed by out or over: of (a part of) a building: to jet or project beyond the rest of the building or other structures.

  4. (broadly, intransitive)To provide a riverbank, seashore, etc., with a jetty (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).

  5. (intransitive, obsolete, rare)To move with haste.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. The jetty has some slats missing.

    deAuf dem Steg fehlen einige Latten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. We ate a waffle on the jetty.

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  3. A young couple were watching the sunset from the jetty.

    deEin junges Paar betrachtete den Sonnenuntergang von der Mole aus. — freddy1

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  4. They walked to the end of the jetty and sat down, their feet dangling above the water.

    deSie gingen bis zum Ende des Stegs, und da saßen sie dann und ließen die Beine über dem Wasser baumeln. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Origin

The noun is derived from Late Middle English gete, jette, jetti (“projecting upper storey

The noun is derived from Late Middle English gete, jette, jetti (“projecting upper storey of a building, overhang; breakwater, pier, jetty”), from Anglo-Norman geté, getee, getté, and Middle French geté, getee, jeté (“projecting upper storey of a building; breakwater, pier”) (modern French jetée), a noun use of the past participle of geter, jeter, from Old French geter, jeter (“to throw”) from Late Latin iectāre, the present active infinitive of iectō (“to throw”), probably from Latin iactō (“to cast, hurl, throw”), from iaciō (“to cast, hurl, throw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”)) + -tō (frequentative suffix). Compare jet (“(obsolete) protruding part”), jutty.

From jet (“(obsolete) to strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait”, verb) + -y (suffix added for metrical reasons, or forming informal terms).

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Forms

jetties, jettying, jettied, jettied
Base formjetty · to jetty
3rd person singularjetties
Present participlejettying
Past simplejettied
Past participlejettied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyjetty
he, she, itjetties

Past simpleLesson

all personsjettied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave jettied
he, she, ithas jettied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill jetty

Synonyms

1 synonyms
jutty

Word family

1 related words
Derivedjettying

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
jetA1jettisonjewjewelB1jewelerB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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