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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Of a very dark black in colour.
  • Propelled by turbine engines.

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Noun:

  • A class of airplane using jet engines rather than propellors.
  • A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
  • A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
  • An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
  • A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
  • A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
  • physics A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
  • The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
  • intransitive To spray out of a container.
  • intransitive To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion

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