jet

(Inglés)

Noun

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.
3. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
5. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
6. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
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.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
2. (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
3. (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
4. (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
5. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
6. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
7. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
8. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
9. (intransitive, slang) To leave; depart.

Adj

Propelled by turbine engines.

Adj

Very dark black in colour.

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/d͡ʒɛt/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Relativo a español: echar

Herdado de Middle English: get

In summary

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.

Sinónimos

spout

spurt

gush

squirt

stream

spray

jet plane

fountain

⛲

jet-propelled

nozzle

current

missile

jet-propelled plane

blue jet

flow

shower

🚿

pitchy

reverse lightning

green

K

thread

🧵

effuse

special K

super C

honey oil

super acid

flare

tongue

👅

cat valium

flow out

jet-black

coal-black

spirt

sooty

rocket

🚀

stripe

ejecting

geyser

gas injection

eject

catapult

fly

✈️

outbreak

ooze

ebony

burst

band

nipple

muzzle

flood