jet

CEFRA2

/ˈd͡ʒɛt/

noun

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01
noun
An airplane powered by one or more jet engines.
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noun
Extra detail
A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.

Examples

Please replace the empty ink jet cartridge in the printer.
The aircraft is powered by a jet engine.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 2

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noun

Extra meanings

A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.

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In context

Whenever I go abroad, I suffer from jet lag and diarrhea.
Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.

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In the floor of the valley the line passes hills of fantastic shape, like sleeping camels and inverted washbasins, and you can see the beautiful lakes Naivasha and Elementeita; at Eburru jets of steam spurt out of the ground.
1950 April 26, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265
One of the other two nations to operate the F-35B, the United Kingdom, has had US versions of the jet operating off its HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier.
2018 November 29, Brad Lendon and Zachary Cohen, “Japan preparing to put US-designed stealth jets on an ‘aircraft carrier’”, in CNN
“Rather than writing off both jets as a loss … teams made a bold decision in 2022 to remove the nose from AF-27 and put it onto AF-211 to maximize savings and add back an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report from the F-35 JPO said.
2025 April 10, Brad Lendon, “‘Frankenjet’ stealth fighter made from two wrecked warplanes joins US Air Force fleet”, in CNN
The Town has the outer Branch of the River behind it, and the Harbour before it, jetting into which latter are cloſe Keys for the weighing and receiving of Cuſtomage on Merchandize, and for the meeting and conferring of Merchants and Traders.
1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Captain Bartho[lomew] Roberts, and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, page 214
And last year, at 5:26 a.m. on August 10, a whole mountainside toppled into the tideline of the shrunken Sawyer Glacier, not far from the Alaskan capital, Juneau. The impact jetted a tsunami a staggering 500 meters up the walls of the fjord.
2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic

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Origin

noun

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.

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We flew from New York to London on a fast blank— that took seven hours.

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noun

We flew from New York to London on a fast blank that took seven hours.