jet
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3.0
- noun
- /dʒɛt/
:
chorro
- Inside Dolly Twiggs's apartment, her sister Lucille Coyle turned on the gas jet underneath the kettle.
- a jet of steam
- water jet
- a jet of air
We have had it up to our eyeballs with this jet stream of bullshit.
- We have had it up to our eyeballs with this jet stream of bullshit.
- Yes, but it wasn't this jet stream of dementia bullshit.
- The Gulf Stream should not be confused with the jet streams.
- So I will come come to explaining and deriving why the jet has the shape of a cone.
Examples
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The wiggly line is the "jet" of material streaming away from the quasar.
Academic text (1992) -
Suddenly, a jet of fire came flying towards him.
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And can you see these two jets coming out of it?
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The ring also determines the direction of a jet of material being accelerated away from the black hole.
Academic text (1992) -
Other interesting structures, such as extensions and jets near the nucleus, were also found.
Academic text (1991) -
We see the signature of this jet in our visible light observations of the afterglow.
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Bright beacons of light and a jet of material escape through the "donut hole" in the ring.
Academic text (1992) -
When the comet is active, the turning on and off of the jets further complicates the problem.
Academic text (1992) -
The slapping water began to boil around him, and a powerful jet erupted from the tunnel.
Fiction book (1990) -
The firefighter directed a powerful jet of water at the flames to control the fire.
Synonyms
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4.9
A long thin mass, like smoke or steam, that rises into the air
15
2.0
A small quick stream of liquid that comes out suddenly
9
3.4
A sudden strong rush of liquid that comes out quickly
7
8.5
A flow of liquid or gas out through a small opening
4
5.1
A long thin line of light or flame moving through the air
A short sudden jet of liquid
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
9.9
Bright blue electric flashes that shoot up from thundercloud tops into the upper sky
- Specialized
1
5.0
A force that moves something forward by forcing out a fast stream of air or water
- Specialized
1
4.4
A device that sends gas through a small opening to make a steady flame for heat or light
1
2.8
A machine that prints words and pictures by spraying tiny drops of ink onto paper
- Archaic
A printer that uses heat to make tiny ink bubbles and prints them on paper
- Specialized
A pump that uses a fast jet of water or steam to pull in and move another liquid
- Specialized
An engine with a large fan that pushes extra air to make the plane go faster
A lifestyle of frequent travel to fashionable foreign places, often with luxury
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jet (narrow stream) comes from the old root ject meaning 'to throw', so think of water or gas being 'thrown' out in a thin, strong spray — that is why we call a narrow, forceful stream a 'jet'.