Jet

English Meaning

Same as 2d Get.

1. A dense black coal that takes a high polish and is used for jewelry.
2. A deep black.
3. Made of or resembling a dense, black, highly polished coal.
4. Black as coal; jet-black: jet hair.
5. A high-velocity fluid stream forced under pressure out of a small-diameter opening or nozzle.
6. An outlet, such as a nozzle, used for emitting such a stream.
7. Something emitted in or as if in a high-velocity fluid stream: "such myriad and such vivid jets of images” ( Henry Roth).
8. A jet-propelled vehicle, especially a jet-propelled aircraft.
9. A jet engine.
10. To travel by jet aircraft: jetted from Houston to Los Angeles.
11. To move very quickly.
12. To propel outward or squirt, as under pressure: "Any man might . . . hang around . . . jetting tobacco juice” ( Ross Lockridge, Jr.)