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jet

Definition

  • noun: a fast airplane that has one or more jet engines
  • noun: a compact velvet-black coal that takes a good polish and is often used for jewelry
  • noun: a usually forceful stream of fluid (as water or gas) discharged from a narrow opening or a nozzle
  • verb: to travel by jet airplane
  • verb: to spout forth
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: gush, spouting, spurt

Examples

  • The telescope has photographed 'jets' of gas shooting out from the distant star.

  • We 'jetted' our representative from London to New York for the meeting.

  • unusual weather patterns caused by changes in the 'jet stream'

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) What makes you think it's special? I don't know. Why'd Mom try to hide it? Snug, I'm calling in a solid you owe me. - What do you need? - A jet. What do you got that's fast? Let me think. Island approach. India Golf niner-niner checking in. VFR on top. Over. Island tower, (..)
    2004 The Incredibles
  • (..) when his cape snagged on a missile fin. Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb... Stratogale! April rd, '. Cape caught in a jet turbine. You can't generalize about these things. Meta-man. Express elevator. Dynaguy, snag on takeoff. Splashdown, sucked into a vortex. (..)
    2004 The Incredibles