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What does "jet" mean?

Jet: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]
  2. 3.The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. Knight. 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.
  3. 4.To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.] he jets under his advanced plumes! Shak. To jet upon a prince's right. Shak.
  4. 5.To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] Wiseman.
  5. 6.To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
  6. 7.To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. A dozen angry models jetted steam. Tennyson.

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