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Look up: jet

  1. Jet
    Jet is slang for ketamine.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. Jet
    Jet is slang for ketamine.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  3. 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/10139

  4. Jet
    Liquid emitted from nozzle orifice.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  5. jet
    [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
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  6. Jet
    Fossilised coal, only use is as jewelry.
    Found on http://www.gallica.co.uk/celts/glossary.

  7. Jet
    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.
    Found on http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/k

  8. 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...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  9. jet
    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 …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  10. Jet
    Jet noun Same as 2d Get . [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/8

  11. Jet
    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 varie...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/8

  12. Jet
    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 fo...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/8

  13. Jet
    Jet intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Jetted ; present participle & verbal noun Jetting .] [ French jeter , Latin jactare , freq. from jacere to throw. ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/8

  14. Jet
    Jet transitive verb To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. « A dozen angry models jetted steam.» Tennyson.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/8

  15. jet
    <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 buil...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  16. jet
    squirt noun the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  17. jet
    jet plane noun an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  18. jet
    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`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  19. jet
    verb fly a jet plane
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  20. JET
    An abbreviation for the Journal of Economic Theory. Contexts: journals
    Found on http://www.econterms.com/glossary.cgi?qu

  21. Jet
    • (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 ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  22. jet
    (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 ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/j/13

  23. Jet
    (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 ... ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/j/13

  24. jet
    • the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
    • a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewellery or ornamentation
    • an artificially produced flow of water

    Found on

  25. Jet
    Jet is a variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black colour, susceptible of a good polish, glossy in its fracture, which is conchoidal or undulating and often wrought into mourning jewellery, toys, buttons, etc. It was formerly also called black amber. In Great Britain jet is foun...
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