1. jet - Noun
2. jet - Adjective
3. jet - Verb
4. jet - Adjective Satellite
5. Jet - Proper noun
Same as 2d Get.
A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.
A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.
Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. Sylvia Plath
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. Muhammad Ali
When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day. Benjamin Mkapa
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery it's a pen that scratches. Robert Orben
Just as a bamboo cane forms a round jet of water, so taking counsel together makes men of one mind. Malawi Proverb