of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
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Jet \Jet\, n. Same as 2d {Get}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Jet \Jet\, n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. ja["i]et, jais, L. gagates, fr. Gr. ?; -- 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, etc. Formerly called also {black amber}.
{Jet ant} (Zo["o]l.), a blackish European ant ({Formica fuliginosa}), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.
Jet \Jet\, n. [F. jet, OF. get, giet, L. jactus a throwing, a throw, fr. jacere to throw. Cf. {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. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. [Obs.]
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.
Jet \Jet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jetted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jetting}.] [F. jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw. See 3d {Jet}, and cf. {Jut}.] 1. 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.
2. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] --Wiseman.
3. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
Jet \Jet\, v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet.
A dozen angry models jetted steam. --Tennyson.
Nov. 23 (Malta) Egyptair jet is hijacked, Egyptian commandos storm plane, 58 die, 24 are wounded.
Each would use new propfan engines, which are powered by high-speed propellers and are significantly more fuel efficient than current jet engines.
One of the many companies controlled by Jaffe has sought to share in an Air Force program, under study by Congress, for developing the nation's next jet pilot training aircraft, according to numerous news accounts last week.
Industry and government sources, asking not to be identified by name, said Tuesday that the plane landed with three of its fuel tanks empty and not feeding three of the huge jet's engines, causing them to stop operating.
He referred to a concert Michael gave in Toronto in 1991, which the singer described as one of the low points in his relationship with Sony. Two senior Sony executives arrived at the concert by private jet.
Boyd told the Saint Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press that the loan follows a precedent established in 1987 when Boeing Co. bought $700 million in convertible notes from Allegis, then the parent company to United Airlines, as part of a jet sale.
United spokesman Lawrence M. Nagin said the jet had undergone a complete four-day inspection 88 days before the accident, and a less intensive check Feb. 16.
Even determining whether the high caused the jet stream to split, or the split jet stream trapped the high, is difficult, Livezey said.
Even determining whether the high caused the jet stream to split, or the split jet stream trapped the high, is difficult, Livezey said.
Linnas is to be transferred to an Aeroflot jet for the flight to the Soviet Union.
A report released Tuesday said the fan disk of the jet's rear engine had a hairline crack less than a half-inch long before the plane's final flight.
It was the third "captive carry flight test" for Pegasus, which remains attached to the jet during such tests.
The Pan Am jet, the first U.S.-chartered flight in nearly three weeks, landed Friday afternoon at Raleigh-Durham airport with 123 American citizens, six Canadians and others of unknown nationality.
A jet with 78 people aboard made an emergency landing Sunday after a section of its landing gear malfunctioned, and one wing caught fire briefly as it scraped the runway, officials said.
The suit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York, just one week after Daimler-Benz announced it had signed a preliminary agreement with UTC to allow their jet engine divisions to operate as a single company on certain ventures.
The $35 million jet crashed upside down into hangars at Gillespie Field and exploded.
I think she sort of thinks the ones I choose are beneath me," said Jason. "But I've never had a problem with the guys she dated." Two Marine Corps jet fighters collided today over a training range, and one pilot was killed, a spokesman said.
A Virgin Atlantic airline jumbo jet left London's Gatwick Airport today for Baghdad to rescue sick and elderly Britons, airline officials said.
The pilot noticed vibrations in the wheel when the jet took off in Denver, and alerted officials at O'Hare, Stack said.
Sunday's crash of the ultra-modern Air France jet could inflict "psychological" damage on the highly touted A320 and prompt cancelled orders and lost sales.
Two F-16A jet fighters crashed while on a night training mission, in the third incident involving Hill Air Force Base jet fighters in one week.
Two F-16A jet fighters crashed while on a night training mission, in the third incident involving Hill Air Force Base jet fighters in one week.
Tapes show that the co-pilot on an Air Florida jet that crashed in a snowstorm in Washington, D.C., in 1982 raised questions about the amount of slush on the wings before takeoff.
The survey, which included passenger deaths caused by criminal or terrorist acts, also found international jet flights have become statistically less risky among industrialized nations.
Officials for both shuttle services noted that jet fuel prices have jumped recently and, more generally, said their fares reflected their expenses.
It also called for revenge against the United States and Saudi Arabia for the death of Iranians at last year's Islamic pilgrimage in Mecca and condemned the United States for shooting down an Iranian passenger jet.
New York air traffic controllers declared a fuel emergency aboard an Avianca jet from Colombia after the pilot said he only had 15 minutes of fuel, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Mr. Kassar, who owns 56% stake in Carolco, lives in a heavily guarded Beverly Hills mansion, gets a salary of $1.5 million and travels the world in a Carolco jet.
They flew on board a specially configured Qantas Boeing 747-300 jet that included a mini-hospital staffed by Royal Australian Air Force surgeons in case any of the veterans became ill during the trip.
A jumbo jet approaching John F. Kennedy Airport missed a commuter plane by 100 feet Sunday, while in another incident a commercial jet reported coming within 400 yards of a private plane near a suburban airport.