jet
/ˈd͡ʒɛt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.29 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
noun
A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
Example Sentences
- "In the floor of the valley the line passes hills of fantastic shape, like sleeping camels and inverted washbasins, and you can see the beautiful lakes Naivasha and Elementeita; at Eburru jets of steam spurt out of the ground."
- "One of the other two nations to operate the F-35B, the United Kingdom, has had US versions of the jet operating off its HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier."
- "“Rather than writing off both jets as a loss … teams made a bold decision in 2022 to remove the nose from AF-27 and put it onto AF-211 to maximize savings and add back an operational aircraft to the fleet,” a report from the F-35 JPO said."
- "Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals."
- "The Town has the outer Branch of the River behind it, and the Harbour before it, jetting into which latter are cloſe Keys for the weighing and receiving of Cuſtomage on Merchandize, and for the meeting and conferring of Merchants and Traders."
- "And last year, at 5:26 a.m. on August 10, a whole mountainside toppled into the tideline of the shrunken Sawyer Glacier, not far from the Alaskan capital, Juneau. The impact jetted a tsunami a staggering 500 meters up the walls of the fjord."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-kt Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin iactus Vulgar Latin *iectus Old French get French jetbor. English jet Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, *jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
jets (plural)
jets (present, singular)
jetting (participle, present)
jetted (participle, past)
jetted (past)
jeat (alternative, obsolete)
jess (alternative)
jetter (comparative)
more jet (comparative)
jettest (superlative)
most jet (superlative)