Look up: Jetty

1. Jetty
   (1) On open seacoasts, a structure extending into a body of water to direct and confine the stream or tidal flow to a selected CHANNEL, or to prevent shoaling. Jetties are built at the mouth of a river or ENTRANCE to a BAY to help deepen and stabilize a CHANNEL and facilitate navigation. (2) (SMP) A...
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2. jetty
   A wall or structure built out from the shore, which might protect a harbour or reduce currents.
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3. Jetty
   in timber framed building, an overhang where an upper floor projects or juts (hence jetty?) over the floor below. Jetties were status symbols, and have some functional purpose in preventing deflection in floors. They also provide increased floorspace shelter, and prevent water running down ...
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4. Jetty
   The overhanging or projecting part of a timber-framed building.
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5. Jetty
   Jet'ty adjective Made of jet, or like jet in color. « The people . . . are of a jetty .» Sir T. Browne.
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6. Jetty
   Jet'ty noun ; plural Jetties . [ French jetée a pier, a jetty, a causeway. See Jet a shooting forth, and confer Jutty .] 1. (Architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, an...
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7. Jetty
   Jet'ty intransitive verb To jut out; to project. [ Obsolete] Florio.
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8. jetty
   Origin: F.jetee a pier, a jetty, a causeway. See Jet a shooting forth, and cf. Jutty. ... 1. A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below. ... 2. A wharf or pier extending from the shore. ... 3. <physics> A structure of wood or stone extended into th...
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9. Jetty
   • (n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore. • (v. i.) To jut out; to project. • (n.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River. • (...
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10. jetty
    any of a variety of engineering structures connected with river, harbour, and coastal works designed to influence the current or tide or to protect ... [1 related articles]
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11. Jetty
    In architecture a jetty is a part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
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12. JETTY
    A structure, usually masonry, projecting out from the shore; a jetty may protect a harbor entrance
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13. Jetty
    A structure, usually masonry, projecting out from the shore; a jetty may protect a harbor entrance.
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14. jetty
    jetty: see coast protection.
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15. jetty
    A structure built out from the shore into deeper water so that boats can moor to it.
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16. Jetty
    A structure, usually masonry, projecting out from the shore; a jetty may protect a harbour entrance.
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17. Jetty
    A `jetty` is any of a variety of structures used in river, dock, and maritime works that are generally carried out in pairs from river banks, or in continuation of river channels at their outlets into deep water; or out into docks, and outside their entrances; or for forming basins along the sea-coa...
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18. Jetty
    (Web server) `Jetty` is a pure Java-based HTTP server and servlet container (Application server) developed as a free and open source project as part of the Eclipse Foundation. It is currently used in products such as ActiveMQ, Originally developed in the Sydney suburb of Balmain by software e...
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