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.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Propelled by turbine engines.
jet airplane
Translations (13)
es a propulsión (propelled by turbine engines) · fr à réaction (propelled by turbine engines) · ka რეაქტიული (propelled by turbine engines) · bg реакти́вен (propelled by turbine engines) · ru реакти́вный (propelled by turbine engines) · sw rafadha (propelled by turbine engines) · ro cu reacție (propelled by turbine engines) · es a chorro (propelled by turbine engines) · it a reazione (propelled by turbine engines) · mk млазен (propelled by turbine engines) · el αεριωθούμενος (propelled by turbine engines) · es a reacción (propelled by turbine engines) · sh mlazni (propelled by turbine engines)
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.
Meanings
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
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. 1950 April 14, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
“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. 2025 April 10, Brad Lendon, “‘Frankenjet’ stealth fighter made from two wrecked warplanes joins US Air Force fleet”, in CNN:
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. 2018 November 29, Brad Lendon and Zachary Cohen, “Japan preparing to put US-designed stealth jets on an ‘aircraft carrier’”, in CNN:
An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion. ▸ A turbine.
An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion. ▸ A rocket engine.
A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
(dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
(dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
he מנוע סילון (engine) · es manguerazo (stream of fluid) · ga scaird (stream of fluid) · pl strumień (stream of fluid) · sq curril (stream of fluid) · ru реакти́вный дви́гатель (engine) · km ម៉ាស៊ីនយន្តហោះ (engine) · ja 射出 (stream of fluid) · es chorretada (stream of fluid) · fr jet (stream of fluid) · bg реактивен двигател (engine) · gl cichón (stream of fluid) · da stråle (stream of fluid) · fi suutin (spout or nozzle) · tr jet makinesi (engine) · ms pancutan (stream of fluid) · ru форсу́нка (spout or nozzle) · ka საქშენი (spout or nozzle) · kw stif (stream of fluid) · da dyse (spout or nozzle) · es chorretón (stream of fluid) · ka სასხმი (spout or nozzle) · fr gicleur (spout or nozzle) · mk мла́зница (spout or nozzle) · fi suihku (stream of fluid) · mk млаз (stream of fluid) · he סִילוֹן (stream of fluid) · sh мла̑з (stream of fluid) · cs proud (stream of fluid) · ko 제트 엔진 (engine) · it getto (stream of fluid) · vi động cơ phản lực (engine) · ru струя́ (stream of fluid) · sh sapnica (spout or nozzle) · tr jet motoru (engine) · pl silnik odrzutowy (engine) · ro duză (spout or nozzle) · cmn 喷气发动机 (engine) · ru жиклёр (spout or nozzle) · la tullius (stream of fluid) · bg жигльор (carburetor part) · cv йӑр (stream of fluid) · fo dýsa (spout or nozzle) · sv jetmotor (engine) · gl callón (stream of fluid) · sv munstycke (spout or nozzle) · fo strútur (spout or nozzle) · bg дюза (spout or nozzle) · uk струмінь (stream of fluid) · bg струя (stream of fluid) · cs výtrysk (stream of fluid) · hi प्रवाह (stream of fluid) · pt bocal (spout or nozzle) · sw mtambo (engine) · pl dysza (carburetor part) · pl dysza (spout or nozzle) · ka ნაკადი (stream of fluid) · yue 噴氣機 /喷气机 (engine) · pl struga (stream of fluid) · mk мла́зник (spout or nozzle) · cs dýza (spout or nozzle) · ro ajutaj (spout or nozzle) · fi suutin (carburetor part) · fr gicleur (carburetor part) · ja 噴射 (stream of fluid) · gl golfarón (stream of fluid) · es chorreón (stream of fluid) · de Strahl (stream of fluid) · es turborreactor (engine) · gl torno (stream of fluid) · mk мла́зен мо́тор (engine) · sv stråle (stream of fluid) · sv dysa (spout or nozzle) · es chorro (stream of fluid) · ja ジェットエンジン (engine) · ro motor cu reacție (engine) · eo reaktoro (engine) · pt jato (stream of fluid) · ro jiclor (carburetor part) · ru жиклёр (carburetor part) · ro jet (stream of fluid) · cs tryska (spout or nozzle) · sh mlaznica (spout or nozzle) · mk мла́зен по́гон (engine) · ar مُحَرِّك نَفَّاث (engine) · sh mlazni motor (engine) · nl straal (stream of fluid) · sh mlȃz (stream of fluid) · ca raig (stream of fluid) · ka რეაქტიული ძრავა (engine) · ka ფრქვევანა (spout or nozzle) · fi suihkumoottori (engine) · ru па́трубок (spout or nozzle)
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.
Meanings
(intransitive) To spray out of a container.
(transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
(intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
(intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
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. 1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Captain Bartho[lomew] Roberts, and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, page 214:
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. 2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic:
To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes! c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous
It is to jet upon a prince’s right? c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
1719, Richard Wiseman, Serjeant-Chirurgeon to King Charles II, Eight Chirurgical Treatises, London: B. Tooke et al., 5th edition, Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 4, p. 78,
A Lady was wounded down the whole Length of the Forehead to the Nose […] It happened to her travelling in a Hackney-Coach, upon the jetting whereof she was thrown out of the hinder Seat against a Bar of Iron in the forepart of the Coach.
To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
The cure is to jet the carburetor excessively rich so that the mixture will be correct at the top end, but this richens the curve throughout the RPM range. 1970, Bill Fisher, How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines, page 30:
(intransitive, slang) To leave; depart.
Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
Pimp prolly jetted before the girl hit the ground good, and if Smoove was still standing on the porch when his brother got downstairs, he'd taken off with him. 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 106:
de jetten (to travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion) · cmn 噴出 /喷出 (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · ru бры́згать (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · mi korowhiwhi (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · it zampillare (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · sv spruta (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · pl wytrysnąć (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · es chorrear (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · de spritzen (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · fi purskuttaa (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · ja 噴出 (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · cmn 噴 /喷 (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · ar دفق (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · el αναβλύζω (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · ru вы́бросить (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · ko 쏟아지다 (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · fi purskauttaa (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · he קָלַח (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · cs tryskat (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · ka ჩქეფა (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · bg бликам (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · ru выбра́сывать (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · kw stifa (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · ka ამოჩქეფა (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · bg струя (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · fr jaillir (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · ko 쏟다 (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · hu spriccel (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · pt jorrar (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt) · ro ţâşni (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt)
From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.
Meanings
Very dark black in colour.
She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered. 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 23:
All the direct blacks require working in strong baths to give anything like black shades; they all have, more or less, a bluish tone, which can be changed to a jetter shade by the addition of a yellow or green dye in small proportions, which has been done in one of the recipes given above. 1901, Franklin Beech, The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student:
From Middle English get, geet, gete, from a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagate.
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat. 1735, [John Barrow], “JEAT”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume II (I–S), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:
(countable, uncountable) The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
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.
Meanings
an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.