jet

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /dʒɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

From French jet, Old French get giet, Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut.

A MiG-17 jet.

Noun

jet (plural jets)

1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
2. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
3. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellors.
4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
   1. A turbine.
   2. A rocket engine.
5. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
6. (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.

Translations

stream of fluid

• Bulgarian: струя (bg) (struja) f
• Dutch: straal (nl) f
• Finnish: suihku (fi)
• French: jet (fr) m
• German: Strahl (de) m
• Japanese: 噴射 (ふんしゃ, funsha),射出 (しゃしゅつ, shashutsu)
• Macedonian: млаз (mk) (mlaz) m

• Portuguese: jato (pt) m
• Russian: струя (ru) (strujá) f
• Serbo-Croatian: mlaz (sh) m
• Spanish: chorro (es) m
• Swahili: jeti (sw)
• Swedish: stråle (sv) c

spout or nozzle

• Danish: dyse (da) c
• Faroese: strútur (fo) m, dýsa (fo) f
• Finnish: suutin (fi)
• French: gicleur (fr)
• Macedonian: млазник (mk) (mláznik) m, млазница (mk) (mláznica) f

• Russian: жиклёр (ru) (žikljór) m
• Swahili: jeti (sw)
• Swedish: dysa (sv) c, munstycke (sv) n

airplane

• Bulgarian: реактивен самолет m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噴氣機 (cmn), 喷气机 (cmn) (pēnqìjī)

• Dutch: straalvliegtuig n, straaljager (nl)
• Finnish: suihkukone (fi)
• French: jet (fr) m
• German: Jet (de) m, Düsenjet (de) m, Strahlflugzeug (de) n, Düsenflugzeug (de) n
• Greek: αεριωθούμενο (el) (aeriothoumeno) n, τζετ (el) (tzet) n
• Japanese: ジェット機 (ja) (jetto-ki)

• Jèrriais: avion à réaction m
• Korean: 제트기 (ko) (jeteu-gi)
• Macedonian: млазен авион (mk) (mlázen avión) m
• Polish: odrzutowiec (pl) m
• Russian: реактивный самолёт (ru) (reaktívnyj samoljót) m
• Spanish: jet (es) m
• Swahili: jeti (sw)
• Swedish: jetplan (sv) n, reaplan (sv) n

engine

• Finnish: suihkumoottori (fi)
• Macedonian: млазен погон (mk) (mlázen pógon) m, млазен мотор (mk) (mlázen mótor) m
• Russian: реактивный двигатель (ru) (reaktívnyj dvígatel’) m

• Swahili: mtambo, (sw)
• Swedish: jetmotor (sv) c

carburetor part

• Finnish: suutin (fi)
• French: gicleur (fr) m

• Russian: жиклёр (ru) (žikljór) m
• Swahili: jeti (sw)

Verb

jet (third-person singular simple present jets, present participle jetting, simple past and past participle jetted)

1. (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
2. (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
3. (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around

Adjective

jet (not comparable)

1. Propelled by turbine engines.

   jet airplane

Translations

propelled by turbine engines

• Bulgarian: реактивен (bg) (reaktíven)
• Macedonian: млазен (mk) (mlázen) m
• Russian: реактивный (ru) (reaktívnyj)

• Spanish: a chorro, a propulsión, a reacción
• Swahili: rafadha (sw)

Etymology 2

From Old French / French jet, jayet, Latin gagates after Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagatēs), from Γάγας (Gagas, “a town and river in Lycia”).

Noun

jet (plural jets)

1. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
2. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

   jet colour:

Translations

coal

• Armenian: գիշեր (hy) (gišer)
• Bulgarian: черен кехлибар m
• Catalan: atzabeja (ca) f, gaieta (ca) f
• Chinese: 瑿
• Finnish: gagaatti (fi)
• French: jais (fr)
• Georgian: გიშერი (ka) (gišeri)

• Japanese: 黒玉 (くろたま, kurotama), 貝褐炭 (ばいかつたん, baikatsutan)
• Navajo: bááshzhinii
• Portuguese: azeviche (pt) m
• Russian: гагат (ru) (gagát) m
• Spanish: azabache (es) m
• Swedish: gagat (sv) c, jet (sv), beckkol (sv) n

colour

• Dutch: koolzwart n
• French: jais (fr), noir de jais (fr)
• Japanese: 漆黒 (しっこく, shikkoku)

• Spanish: azabache (es) m
• Swedish: kolsvart (sv), becksvart (sv), gagatsvart (sv)

Adjective

jet (not comparable)

1. Very dark black in colour.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 23:

     She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.

Translations

colour

• Dutch: gitzwart, pikzwart
• Spanish: azabache (es) m and f

• Swedish: kolsvart (sv), becksvart (sv), gagatsvart (sv)

Derived terms

Terms derived from all senses of jet

bubble-jet printer cool one's jets executive jet fanjet gas jet ink-jet printer jet-black jet boat jet engine jet fighter, fighter jet

jet lag jet off jet set jet stream, jetstream jet wash jet turbine jetbead jetfoil jetliner jetpack jetport jet-propelled

jetsam jetski, jet ski jetter jettison jetwash jumbo jet jump jet pulse jet ram jet, ramjet superjet trijet

See also

• Appendix:Colors

References

• jet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ja(cha)ti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *i͡ā-.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /jɛt/
• Homophone: jed
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Verb

jet imperfective

1. to ride
2. to go (by vehicle)

Conjugation

   Conjugation table

	Indicative						Imperative
person	Present	Past				Future
		Masculine		Feminine	Neuter
		animate	inanimate
I	jedu	jel jsem		jela jsem	jelo jsem	pojedu	—
you (singular)	jedeš	jel jsi, (informal) jels		jela jsi, (informal) jelas	jelo jsi, (informal) jelos	pojedeš	jeď
you (polite)	jedete	jel jste		jela jste	jelo jste	pojedete	jeďte
he/she/it	jede	jel		jela	jelo	pojede	—
we	jedeme, (informal) jedem	jeli jsme		jely jsme	jela jsme, (informal) jely jsme	pojedeme, (informal) pojedem	jeďme
you (plural)	jedete	jeli jste		jely jste	jela jste, (informal) jely jste	pojedete	jeďte
they	jedou	jeli	jely	jely	jela, (informal) jely	pojedou	—
	Conditional
person	Present				Past
	Masculine		Feminine	Neuter	Masculine		Feminine	Neuter
	animate	inanimate			animate	inanimate
I	jel bych		jela bych	jelo bych	byl bych jel		byla bych jela	bylo bych jelo
you (singular)	jel bys		jela bys	jelo bys	byl bys jel		byla bys jela	bylo bys jelo
you (polite)	jel byste		jela byste	jelo byste	byl byste jel		byla byste jela	bylo byste jelo
he/she/it	jel by		jela by	jelo by	byl by jel		byla by jela	bylo by jelo
we	jeli bychom, (informal) jeli bysme		jely bychom, (informal) jely bysme	jela bychom, (informal) jela bysme or jely bysme	byli bychom jeli, (informal) byli bysme jeli		byly bychom jely, (informal) byli bysme jely	byla bychom jela, (informal) byla bysme jela or byly bysme jely
you (plural)	jeli byste		jely byste	jela byste, (informal) jely byste	byli byste jeli		byly byste jely	byla byste jela, (informal) byly byste jely
they	jeli by	jely by	jely by	jela by, (informal) jely by	byli by jeli	byly by jely	byly by jely	byla by jela, (informal) byly by jely
	Participle
Number	Active (Perfect)				Passive
	Masculine		Feminine	Neuter	Masculine		Feminine	Neuter
	animate	inanimate			animate	inanimate
singular	jel		jela	jelo	jet		jeta	jeto
plural	jeli	jely	jely	jela	jeti	jety	jety	jeta, (informal) jety
	transgressive present		transgressive past
Number	Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
singular	jeda	jedouc	jedav	jedavši
plural	jedouce		jedavše
	Infinitive	Verbal adjective		Gerund
	jet	jedoucí		jetí

Derived terms

• dojet
• nadjet
• podjet
• projet
• přejet
• objet
• rozjet
• ujet
• vjet
• zajet

Related terms

Related terms

jít - to go (by foot)

sjezd m vjezd m rozjezd m podjezd m nadjezd m dojezd m objezd m

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʒɛ/, X-SAMPA: /ZE/

Noun

jet m (plural jets)

1. throw
2. spurt, spout

Related terms

• jeter

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Lojban

Rafsi

jet

1. rafsi of jetnu.