Look up: jetty


  1. Jetty
    [web server] Jetty is a pure Java-based HTTP client/server, WebSocket client/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, Alfresco, Apache Geronimo, Apache M...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty_(web_server)

  2. 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-coas...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty

  3. 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...
    Found op http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/swces/products/glossary.htm

  4. jetty
    A wall or structure built out from the shore, which might protect a harbour or reduce currents.
    Found op http://www.conservancy.co.uk/learn/wordlist.htm

  5. 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 ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20935

  6. Jetty
    The overhanging or projecting part of a timber-framed building.
    Found op http://www.architecture.com/HowWeBuiltBritain/Glossary.xhtml

  7. Jetty
    Jet'ty adjective Made of jet, or like jet in color. « The people . . . are of a jetty Sir T. Browne.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/9

  8. 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...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/9

  9. Jetty
    Jet'ty intransitive verb To jut out; to project. [ Obsolete] Florio.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/9

  10. 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...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?jetty



  1. 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. • (...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/jetty/

  2. 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]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/j/13

  3. Jetty
    In architecture a jetty is a part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/TJ.HTM

  4. JETTY
    A structure, usually masonry, projecting out from the shore; a jetty may protect a harbor entrance
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  5. Jetty
    A structure, usually masonry, projecting out from the shore; a jetty may protect a harbor entrance.
    Found op http://www.sailinglinks.com/glossary.htm

  6. jetty
    jetty: see coast protection.
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0914899.html

  7. jetty
    A structure built out from the shore into deeper water so that boats can moor to it.
    Found op http://www.diy-wood-boat.com/Boating-terms.html

  8. Jetty
    A structure, usually masonry, projecting out from the shore; a jetty may protect a harbour entrance.
    Found op http://www.yachtdeliveryasia.com/glossary.php

  9. Jetty
    A man-made wall in open water rising several feet above high tide made of rubble and rocks used to create a breakwater, shelter, erosion control, a channel, or other such purpose.
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_nautical_terms

  10. Jetty
    A man-made wall in open water rising several feet above high tide made of rubble and rocks used to create a breakwater, shelter, erosion control, a channel, or other such purpose.
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_nautical_terms

  11. jetty
    1) Barrier 2) Breakwater 3) Bulwark 4) Fishing spot 5) Groin 6) Groyne 7) Harbor protection 8) Harbor protector 9) Land bridge 10) Landing place 11) Mole 12) Pier 13) Quay 14) Ramp 15) Seawall
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/jetty/1

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