Look up: jet

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   Jet
   a form of fossilized coal that became popular for mourning jewelry after Queen Victoria's husband, Albert died in 1861. Produced mainly in Whitby, England, it is a very lightweight substance. Black glass was often used to imitate jet which became a fashion item, not just for mourning.
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   Jet is a town in Alfalfa County Oklahoma, USA
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   Jet is a soft black mineral.
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   JET is an abbreviation for Joint European Torus (fusion research)
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   Jet is slang for ketamine.
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   Jet
   Liquid emitted from nozzle orifice.
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   [n] - a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewellery or ornamentation 2. [n] - the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) 3. [n] - an airplane powered by one or more jet engines 4. [v] - fly a jet plane 5. [v] - issue in a jet
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   Fossilised coal, only use is as jewelry.
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   A hard black material formed from large individual blocks of wood that have been fossilised. This has been used to create items such as beads from the Early Bronze Age onwards by cutting, shaping and polishing.
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    Jet
    jet of extinguishing agent (usually water) leaving the nozzle in the form of a solid stream under normal pressure Category: Technical and industry in general • a small metal plate, thimble, or cap with fine holes through which a cellulose or chemical solution is forced in the spinning of man-made filaments Category: Various industries and crafts • a compact variety of ligni...
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    Black, glossy, fossilised wood - a very hard form of coal - that is carved and highly polished to make jewellery and ornaments. Jet has been used for decoration since the Bronze Age. It was mined extensively on the Yorkshire coast near Whitby and widely exported c.1805-75. It was popular for buttons and mourning jewellery in Victorian times. Spanis ...
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    Jet noun Same as 2d Get . [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
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    Jet noun [ Old French jet , jayet , French jaïet , jais , Latin gagates , from Greek ...; -- so called from ... or ..., a town and river in Lycia.] [ written also jeat , jayet .] (Min.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, ...
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    Jet noun [ French jet , Old French get , giet , Latin jactus a throwing, a throw, from jacere to throw. Confer Abject , Ejaculate , Gist , Jess , Jut .] 1. 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. 2. ...
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    Jet intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Jetted ; present participle & verbal noun Jetting .] [ French jeter , Latin jactare , freq. from jacere to throw. See 3d Jet , and confer Jut .] 1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [ Obsolete] &#x ...
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    Jet transitive verb To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. « A dozen angry models jetted steam.» Tennyson.
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    <chemical> A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black colour, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber. ... <zoology> Jet ant, a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks o ...
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    squirt noun the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
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    jet plane noun an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
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    gush verb issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; `Water jetted forth`; `flames were jetting out of the building`
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    verb fly a jet plane
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    An abbreviation for the Journal of Economic Theory. Contexts: journals
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    • (v. i.) To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. • (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. • (v. i.) To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out. • (n.) 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 whic...
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    (from the article `jewelry`) Jet is a dense variety of lignite formed by the submersion of driftwood in the mud of the seafloor. It has been recovered since Roman times from the ...
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    (from the article `Ebony`) ...shifted its editorial focus to include black achievement of all sorts. By the beginning of the 21st century, its circulation had reached about 1.8 ... Johnson went on to create other black publications, including Jet magazine in 1951. His firm, Johnson Publishing Company, later diversified into book ... ...
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