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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jet \Jet\, noun Same as 2d {Get}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jet \Jet\, noun [OF. jet, jayet, F. ja["i]et, jais, L. gagates, fr. Gr. ?; -- so called from ? or ?, a town and river in Lycia.] [written also {jeat}, {jayet}.] (Min.) 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}.
{Jet ant} (Zo["o]l.), a blackish European ant ({Formica fuliginosa}), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jet \Jet\, noun [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. {Abject}, {Ejaculate}, {Gist}, {Jess}, {Jut}.]
1. 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.
2. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]
3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. --Knight.
{Jet propeller} (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.
{Jet pump}, a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jet \Jet\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Jetted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jetting}.] [F. jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw. See 3d {Jet}, and cf. {Jut}.]
1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.]
he jets under his advanced plumes! --Shak.
To jet upon a prince's right. --Shak.
2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] --Wiseman.
3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Jet \Jet\, verb (used with an object) To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
A dozen angry models jetted steam. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
jet
adjective: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: {coal-black}, {jet-black}, {pitchy}, {sooty}]
noun
1: an airplane powered by one or more jet engines [syn: {jet plane}, {jet-propelled plane}]
2: the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn: {squirt}, {spurt}, {spirt}]
3: a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewellery or ornamentation
4: street names for ketamine [syn: {K}, {super acid}, {special K}, {honey oil}, {green}, {cat valium}, {super C}]
5: an artificially produced flow of water [syn: {fountain}]
verb
1: issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" [syn: {gush}]
2: fly a jet plane [also: {jetting}, {jetted}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "jet": Jet Liner, anabasis, ascension, ascent, black, blowtorch, business jet, charcoal, clamber, climb, climbing, coal, crow, ebon, ebony, elevation, escalade, fountain, gush, gyring up, increase, ink, inky, jet plane, jetty, jump, leap, levitation, mount, mounting, multi-jet, night, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pulse-jet, ramjet, raven, rise, rising, rocketing up, sable, saltation, shooting up, single-jet, sloe, smoke, smut, soaring, soot, spout, spring, sprit, spritz, spurt, surge, tailless jet, takeoff, taking off, tar, turbojet, twin-jet, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, zooming
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Jet, OK (town, FIPS 38000) Location: 36.66676 N, 98.18071 W Population (1990): 272 (164 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73749
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Jet, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma Population (2000): 230 Housing Units (2000): 149 Land area (2000): 0.308176 sq. miles (0.798171 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.308176 sq. miles (0.798171 sq. km) FIPS code: 38000 Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40 Location: 36.666790 N, 98.181053 W ZIP Codes (1990): 73749 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Jet, OK Jet
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