jet

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  1. noun A dense black coal that takes a high polish and is used for jewelry.
  2. noun A deep black.
  3. adjective Made of or resembling a dense, black, highly polished coal.
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  • While awaiting clearance to take off, however, my jet was asked to return to the gate. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 01 - January 2001
  • The Canadian manufacturer designed the jet, which is set to launch in 2013, hoping to take on heavyweights Boeing and Airbus in the 110-130 seat aircraft segment.
  • That expenditure would not have sparked anything for our economy either as the jet was built in France. —  WindyBits - Main
  • Chemed fired back by saying the jet was a six-seat plane, virtually identical to the —  DealBook
  • It's a really dumb thing to go on about, but selling a jet is a pretty good stunt. —  Balloon Juice
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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman geet, from Latin gagātēs, from Greek, after Gagas, a town of Lycia.
  2. French, from Old French, from jeter, to spout forth, throw, from Vulgar Latin *iectāre, alteration of Latin iactāre, frequentative of iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English jetten, getten, from Old French jetter, jeter, getter, geter, jecter, Frenchjeter, cast, hurl, throw, fling, dart, put or push forth, = Provencal getar, gitar, gietar = Spanish jitar = Italian gittare, gettare, throw, etc., from Latin jactare, throw, hurl, cast, toss, shake, agitate, etc., freq. of jacere, throw (later jacēre, lie), akin to Greek ἰάπτειν, throw: see iambic. From the same Latin source are abject, project, reject, subject, traject, etc., with many derivatives, abjection, adjection, etc., adjective, objective, etc., jacent, adjacent, circumjacent, jactation, jettison, jetsam, jactitation, jaculate, ejaculate, etc., also amice, gist, gist, joist, and, connected directly with jet, its doublet jut, and jetty, jutty, etc.
  2. Early modern English also jette, get; from Middle English jet, get, jette, gette, a device, mode, manner, fashion, from Old French get, giet, later gect, ject, a throw, Cast, etc., a jess (q. v.), French jet, a throw, cast, stroke, a gush, spurt, or jet (of water), a shoot (of a plant), a jess, etc., = Italian getto, a throw, cast, waterspout, etc., from Latin jactus, a throw, cast, from jacere, past participle jactus, throw: see jet, v. Cf. jess, n.
  3. Formerly also jeat, geat, get, geet, jayet; from Middle English jet, jete, geete, from Old French jet (also jette, feminine), jaet, jayet, French jayet, jais, earlier Old French gayet, and restored gagate (cf. also Middle English and Anglo-Saxon, as L., gagates, German gagat, etc.), from Latin gagates, from Greek γαγάτης, jet, so called from Γάγας or Γάγγαι, a town and river of Lycia in Asia Minor.
 

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