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No reason to believe that this jet was there for any nefarious purposes, but the Secret Service was very concerned, pointing up at the jet in the sky.

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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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  • At the base of the short ladder leading down from the jet was his staff car, his chauffeur who was waiting on the runway tarmac beside it, snapped to attention as he saw his superior. —  The Quest
  • No reason to believe that this jet was there for any nefarious purposes, but the Secret Service was very concerned, pointing up at the jet in the sky. —  CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2007
  • SHEILAH KAST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jeanne, the jet was aiming for a helicopter at the Kabul airport according to a senior Pentagon official and somehow the missile missed its mark by about a mile. —  CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2001
  • Now, federal aviation authorities say the jet was a charter from Atlantic City, New Jersey, and people associated with Viracon. —  CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2008
  • An Alaskan businessman bought it for $2.1 million, about $600,000 less than the jet was actually worth. —  CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2008
 

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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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