jet engine
14
3.7
- noun
- /dʒɛt ˈɛnʤɪn/
- Specialized
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motor a reacción
- After the flight, the crew inspected the jet engine for any potential issues.
- jet engine blades
- jet engine manufacturers
- commercial jet engine
It was just enormously loud like this jet engine going off.
- It was just enormously loud like this jet engine going off.
- And so, for example, a a, a, a, a, a fighter jet engine and the whole jet plane is a very complicated system, but it's not a complex system.
- And he would do funny things like he would get a, a jet, a glorified jet engine and put it on a bicycle that his friend made and ride it around Los Alamos.
- Now consider aeroplanes, jet engines, gas, industrial, industrial turbine engines.
- And all which and all transportation systems, internal combustion engines, jet engines, rockets, surface roads.
- Wow, those should be some pretty bad ass bad ass jet engines.
- I drive the Veyron and it's built like a race car with a jet engine.
- So the wheels of progress have fallen off and they've been replaced by jet engines.
Examples
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The air cargo market is strong, and orders for new jet engine-powered freighters are high.
Academic text (2007) -
The aircraft's jet engine roared to life as it prepared for takeoff.
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Oh, look at that jet engine right there.
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Provides excellent wear resistance on jet engine parts and automotive transmission components.
Academic text (2002) -
The GTF significantly reduces jet engine noise and will cut fuel consumption by more than 12 percent.
Academic text (2009) -
Sam's job was to inspect jet engines at their ten-thousand-hour checkup.
Fiction book (2000) -
Rolls-Royce is developing an open rotor jet engine that could provide bypass ratios as high as 50:1.
Academic text (2010) -
I remember working on the first JT9D 747 jet engines, back in the 1960s at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.
Academic text (2007) -
Many Boeing 747s were awaiting jet engines at Paine Field, Everett, Wash., in 1969.
Academic text (2011) -
The sleek-looking B-47 was powered by six jet engines, suspended in pods from sharply swept-back wings.
Academic text (2003)
How Powerful
- Specialized
5
3.6
- Specialized
14
3.7
- Specialized
1
3.5
- Specialized
3
6.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally built from 'jet' (a high-speed stream) + 'engine' (a machine producing power), so a learner who knows both words can infer an 'engine that produces a jet/stream of gas'. This noun–noun compounding is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, making the MWE immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The name jet engine comes from the idea of a powerful jet, a fast stream of hot gas, coming out of the engine. This picture of an engine that shoots out a fast stream to push the plane explains why the name means an engine that makes 'thrust'.