Jet

n.	1.	Same as 2d Get.
	1.	(Min.) 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. Jet ant (Zool.) a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.
	1.
	1.	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.
	2.	Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
	3.	The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. Jet propeller (Naut.) a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump. Jet pump 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.
v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Jetted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Jetting.]
	1.	To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. he jets under his advanced plumes! - Shak. To jet upon a prince's right. - Shak.
	2.	To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
	3.	To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
v. t.	1.	To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. A dozen angry models jetted steam. - Tennyson.

Noun	1.	jet - an airplane powered by one or more jet engines Synonyms: jet plane, jet-propelled plane
	2.	jet - the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) Synonyms: spirt, spurt, squirt
	3.	jet - a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewellery or ornamentation
	4.	jet - street names for ketamine Synonyms: cat valium, honey oil, special K, super acid, super C, K, green
	5.	jet - an artificially produced flow of water Synonyms: fountain
Verb	1.	jet - issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" Synonyms: gush
	2.	jet - fly a jet plane
Adj.	1.	jet - of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty

Jet Liner, anabasis, ascension, ascent, black, blowtorch, business jet, charcoal, clamber, climb, climbing, coal, crow, ebon, ebony, elevation, escalade, fountain, gyring up, increase, ink, jet plane, jetty, jump, leap, levitation, mount, mounting, multi-jet, night, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pulse-jet, ramjet, raven, rise, rising, rocketing up, sable, saltation, shooting up, single-jet, sloe, smoke, smut, soaring, soot, spout, spring, sprit, spritz, surge, tailless jet, takeoff, taking off, tar, turbojet, twin-jet, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, zooming

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