to jet
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3.0
- verb
- /dʒɛt/
- When the bottle was opened, soda began to jet out, creating a fizzy fountain.
- jetting water
- jetting out smoke
- begin to jet
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Examples
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A nearby sprinkler head winked and nodded in the sun, jetting water in a regular, palsied cadence.
Fiction book (2000) -
Yeah, go and jet the vent tube.
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If the suit had somehow developed a hole at the finger or thumb, air would be jetting out into space.
Fiction book (1999) -
Light beams shoot out from points in the wall faces, jetting in toward the center of the lobby!
Fiction book (1996) -
Bubbles continued to jet into the coolant and recirculation tubes.
Fiction book (2000) -
Before me was a glass-walled atrium where a fountain, surrounded by holly bushes, was jetting water into the air.
Fiction book (2001) -
The firefighters directed the hose to jet water onto the blazing flames.
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The exhaust can jet fumes out in a strong stream, clearing the area quickly.
Synonyms
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1.0
To move steadily in a stream like a liquid or gas
102
5.1
To send out large amounts of something suddenly, like water or smoke
57
2.9
Make liquid flow out of a container
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2.3
To push liquid out quickly in a thin stream
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2.9
Move or pour out in a steady stream, often a liquid
27
3.2
To flow out suddenly and forcefully, like blood from a wound
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4.1
Push a liquid or other substance out of something
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3.1
To come out suddenly in a strong stream
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3.7
To flow out quickly and forcefully in a strong stream
1
9.0
To send out a sudden thin stream of liquid
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
3
5.0
A force that moves something forward by forcing out a fast stream of air or water
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2.8
A machine that prints words and pictures by spraying tiny drops of ink onto paper
- Specialized
1
9.9
Bright blue electric flashes that shoot up from thundercloud tops into the upper sky
- Specialized
1
4.4
A device that sends gas through a small opening to make a steady flame for heat or light
- Specialized
1
6.4
An engine with a large fan that pushes extra air to make the plane go faster
- Archaic
1
4.2
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
A lifestyle of frequent travel to fashionable foreign places, often with luxury
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
To jet (of a liquid or gas) means to come out in a narrow, forceful stream and comes from the same root ject meaning 'to throw', which gives the idea of a sudden, powerful burst.