jet : Idioms & Phrases

• noun atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
  reverse lightning; jet.
  

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• noun a kind of ink-jet printer
  bubble jet printer; bubblejet.
  

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• noun a kind of ink-jet printer
  bubble jet printer; bubblejet.
  

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• noun an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine
  turbojet; fanjet; turbofan.
  
• noun a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust
  fanjet engine; fanjet; turbojet engine; turbofan engine; turbojet; turbofan.
  

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• noun burner such that combustible gas issues from a nozzle to form a steady flame
  gas burner.
  

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• a flame of illuminating gas.

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• adjective of or relating to an ink-jet printer
  

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• noun a printer that produces characters by projecting electrically charged droplets of ink
  

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• (Zoöl.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

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• noun a very dark black
  soot black; sable; coal black; pitch black; ebony.
  

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• noun an extendible bridge for loading passengers onto large commercial airplanes; provides protected access to the plane from the gate
  

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Jet` d'eau"

Etymology

F., a throw of water. See Jet a shooting forth.

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plural Jets d'eau

Definitions

1. A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament.

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• noun a gas turbine produces a stream of hot gas that propels a jet plane by reaction propulsion
  

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• noun fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel
  

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• noun an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
  jet; jet plane.
  

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• (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.

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• noun propulsion by means of the discharge of a jet of fluid toward the rear
  

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• 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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• noun a set of rich and fashionable people who travel widely for pleasure
  

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• noun a high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere; has important effects of the formation of weather fronts
  

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• adjective satellite of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
  coal-black; sooty; jet; pitchy.
  

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Jet"-black` adjective

Definitions

1. Black as jet; deep black.

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• adjective propelled by (or as if propelled by) a jet engine
  

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• noun an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
  jet; jet plane.
  

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• noun a very large jet plane
  jumbojet.
  

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