Jet \Jet\, n.
   Same as 2d Get. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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	Jet \Jet\, n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. ja["i]et, jais, L. gagates,
   fr. Gr. ?; -- so called from ? or ?, a town and river in
   Lycia.] [written also jeat, jayet.] (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.
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   Jet ant (Zool.), a blackish European ant (Formica
      fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike
      material in the trunks of trees.
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	Jet \Jet\, n. [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a
   throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. Abject, Ejaculate,
   Gist, Jess, Jut.]
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   1. 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.
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   2. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]
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   3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type
      is cold. --Knight.
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   Jet propeller (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by
      means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel,
      as by a centrifugal pump.

   Jet pump, a device in which a small jet of steam, air,
      water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise
      moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with
      which it mingles.
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	Jet \Jet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jetted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Jetting.] [F. jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw.
   See 3d Jet, and cf. Jut.]
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   1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be
      insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.]
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            he jets under his advanced plumes!    --Shak.
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            To jet upon a prince's right.         --Shak.
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   2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] --Wiseman.
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   3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
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	Jet \Jet\, v. t.
   To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
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         A dozen angry models jetted steam.       --Tennyson.
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	jet
    adj 1: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or
           coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy,
           sooty]
    n 1: an airplane powered by one or more jet engines [syn: jet,
         jet plane, jet-propelled plane]
    2: the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn:
       jet, squirt, spurt, spirt]
    3: a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish
       and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
    4: atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the
       tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they
       flash upward [syn: jet, blue jet, reverse lightning]
    5: street names for ketamine [syn: K, jet, super acid,
       special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C]
    6: an artificially produced flow of water [syn: fountain,
       jet]
    v 1: issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth;
         "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the
         building" [syn: jet, gush]
    2: fly a jet plane

	

	86 Moby Thesaurus words for "jet":
   Jet Liner, anabasis, ascension, ascent, black, blowtorch,
   business jet, charcoal, clamber, climb, climbing, coal, crow, ebon,
   ebony, elevation, escalade, fountain, gush, gyring up, increase,
   ink, inky, jet plane, jetty, jump, leap, levitation, mount,
   mounting, multi-jet, night, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark,
   pulse-jet, ramjet, raven, rise, rising, rocketing up, sable,
   saltation, shooting up, single-jet, sloe, smoke, smut, soaring,
   soot, spout, spring, sprit, spritz, spurt, surge, tailless jet,
   takeoff, taking off, tar, turbojet, twin-jet, upclimb, upcoming,
   updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap,
   uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot,
   upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, zooming

	

	JET
       Joint Engineering Team

	

	JET
       Java Emitter Templates (Java, EMF)

	

	Jet, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
   Population (2000):    230
   Housing Units (2000): 149
   Land area (2000):     0.308176 sq. miles (0.798171 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.308176 sq. miles (0.798171 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            38000
   Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
   Location:             36.666790 N, 98.181053 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     73749
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Jet, OK
    Jet