Definition

1. Noun:

   • A hard, black material: A type of very hard, black coal (lignite) that can be polished to a high shine and is used in jewelry and ornaments.
   • A fast, narrow stream of liquid or gas: A strong, thin, and continuous flow of liquid, gas, or steam forced out under pressure.
   • A jet engine: An engine that creates forward thrust by expelling a high-speed jet of gas backward.
   • An airplane powered by jet engines: An aircraft that uses jet engines for propulsion.

2. Verb:

   • To spurt or gush out forcefully: To shoot out or flow in a fast, narrow, and continuous stream.
   • To travel by jet aircraft: To fly in an airplane powered by jet engines.

3. Adjective:

   • Deep, glossy black: Of a very dark, intense black color, like polished jet (the mineral).

Examples

• Noun:

  • She wore a necklace made of polished jet. (Material)
  • A jet of water shot from the broken pipe. (Stream)
  • The new jet is much faster than propeller planes. (Aircraft)

• Verb:

  • Water jetted from the fountain.
  • He jetted off to Paris for the weekend. (Informal)

• Adjective:

  • She has beautiful jet black hair.

Advanced Usage

• "Jet set" (noun, informal): Refers to wealthy, fashionable people who frequently travel internationally by jet aircraft.
  • The resort is popular with the international jet set.
• "Jet lag" (noun): The tired and disoriented feeling caused by traveling rapidly across multiple time zones.
  • I need a day to recover from the jet lag.

Variants and Related Words

• Jetty (noun): A structure built out into the water to influence currents or protect a harbor.
• Jetliner (noun): A large jet aircraft designed to carry passengers.
• Jet-black (adjective): An intensified form meaning a deep, glossy black.
• Jet-propelled (adjective): Powered by a jet engine.

Synonyms

• Noun (stream): Spurt, gush, stream, spray.
• Noun (aircraft): Jetliner, jet plane.
• Verb (to spurt): Spurt, gush, shoot, stream.
• Adjective (color): Ebony, pitch-black, raven.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Jet off (informal): To leave quickly, especially on a trip by airplane.
  • They jetted off to the islands for a vacation.

Related Idioms

• "A jet of...": Used to describe the forceful emergence of something.
  • The cut caused a jet of blood.
• "Jet-black": A common idiom to describe something as very black.
  • The cat had jet-black fur.

Adjective

1. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

Noun

1. an artificially produced flow of water
2. street names for ketamine
3. atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
4. a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
5. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
6. an airplane powered by one or more jet engines

Verb

1. fly a jet plane
2. issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
   • Water jetted forth
   • flames were jetting out of the building