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jet

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1. jet - Noun

2. jet - Adjective

3. jet - Verb

4. jet - Adjective Satellite

5. Jet - Proper noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

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A 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

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