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# jet

«jet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a fast aircraft with jet engines** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a jet, jets; jet — the stone, uncountable); verb (jet, jets, jetted, jetting); adjective (jet-black)

### meaning for a pupil

1) noun: A jet is a fast aircraft with jet engines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#m1)

2) noun: A jet is a strong, narrow stream of water, gas or air pushed out of a small hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#m2)

3) verb (informal): To jet off means to travel somewhere by plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#m3)

4) noun: Jet is a hard black stone used in jewellery; jet-black means very dark black. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: jet engines push hot gas backwards so the plane moves forwards (action and reaction). In everyday life: a jet of water from a hose, jet lag after long flights. Phrases: jet plane, jet lag, jet engine, jet of water, jet off, jet-black, jet ski.

### examples

- The jet flew high above the clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#x1)
- A jet of water shot out of the fountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#x2)
- We felt tired from jet lag after flying to Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#x3)
- The film star jetted off to Paris. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#x4)
- The cat had jet-black fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#x5)
- Whales blow a jet of air and spray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#x6)
- A jet can fly 900 kilometres an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#x7)
- Colored lamps surrounded little lakes, in which were water-plants of colored metal, from whose flowers jets of water spurted up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/#x8)

### note

Countable for planes and streams. Past: jetted (double t). In maths: distance = speed × time; a jet at 900 km per hour goes 1,800 km in 2 hours.

### In the corpora

- [A squid moves fast by jet propulsion: it squirts water out through a funnel called a siphon and shoots the other way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/16/)
- [Octopuses and squid squirt dark ink and jet away, and some squid make an ink blob shaped like themselves as a decoy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/11/)
- [Gloomy octopuses in Australia were filmed throwing silt and shells with a jet of water, sometimes at each other.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver/16/)
- [Squid, octopuses and jellyfish move by pushing out jets of water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/11/)
- [Saturn's north pole has a six-sided jet stream called the hexagon, each side wider than the Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.