jet

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A dense black coal that takes a high polish and is used for jewelry.
2. n. A deep black.
3. adj. Made of or resembling a dense, black, highly polished coal.
4. adj. Black as coal; jet-black: jet hair.
5. n. A high-velocity fluid stream forced under pressure out of a small-diameter opening or nozzle.
6. n. An outlet, such as a nozzle, used for emitting such a stream.
7. n. Something emitted in or as if in a high-velocity fluid stream: "such myriad and such vivid jets of images” ( Henry Roth).
8. n. A jet-propelled vehicle, especially a jet-propelled aircraft.
9. n. A jet engine.
10. v. To travel by jet aircraft: jetted from Houston to Los Angeles.
11. v. To move very quickly.
12. v. To propel outward or squirt, as under pressure: "Any man might . . . hang around . . . jetting tobacco juice” ( Ross Lockridge, Jr.)

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To throw out; shoot out; spurt forth, especially from a small orifice; spout; spurt.
2. To shoot forward; shoot out; project; jut.
3. To strut; stalk; assume a haughty or pompous carriage; be proud.
4. To encroach offensively.
5. To jerk; jolt.
6. To turn round or about.
7. n. A sudden shooting forth; a spouting or spurting, as of water or flame from a small orifice.
8. n. That which so issues or spurts: as, a jet of water; a jet of blood; a jet of gas.
9. n. A spout, or the end of a spout or nozle, for the emission of a liquid or gas: as, a rose-jet; a gas-jet.
10. n. In metal-casting: A channel or tube for introducing melted metal into a mold.
11. n. A small projecting piece of the metal, consisting of what remained in the hole through which the liquid metal was run into the mold: this has to be filed off before the casting can be finished. Compare runner.
12. n. In pyrotechnics, a rocket-case filled with a burning composition, and attached to the circumference of a wheel or the end of a movable arm to give it motion.
13. n. A large water-ladle.
14. n. A descent; a declivity.
15. n. Fashion; manner; custom; style.
16. n. Artifice; contrivance.
17. n. [A form of or substitute for gist, of the same ult. origin.] Point; drift; scope.
18. n. A solid, dry, black, inflammable fossil substance, harder than asphalt, susceptible of high polish, and glossy in its fracture, which is conchoidal or undulating. It is found in beds of lignite or brown coal, and chiefly in rocks of Tertiary and Secondary age. The most important jet-veins are in York-shire, England, near Whitby. It is wrought into toys, buttons, and personal ornaments of various kinds.
19. n. The color of jet; a deep, rich, glossy black.
20. Made of the mineral jet: as, jet beads; jet ornaments.

Wiktionary

1. n. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
2. n. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
3. adj. Very dark black in colour.
4. n. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
5. n. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
6. n. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellors.
7. n. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
8. n. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
9. n. physics A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
10. v. intransitive To spray out of a container.
11. v. intransitive To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
12. v. intransitive To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
13. adj. Propelled by turbine engines.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete Same as 2d get.
2. n. (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.
3. n. 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.
4. n. obsolete Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
5. n. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
6. v. obsolete To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
7. v. obsolete To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
8. v. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
9. v. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
2. n. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
3. v. fly a jet plane
4. n. atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
5. adj. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
6. n. a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
7. n. an artificially produced flow of water
8. n. street names for ketamine
9. n. an airplane powered by one or more jet engines