jet
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 →
2) noun: A jet is a strong, narrow stream of water, gas or air pushed out of a small hole. tree →
3) verb (informal): To jet off means to travel somewhere by plane. tree →
4) noun: Jet is a hard black stone used in jewellery; jet-black means very dark black. tree →
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 →
- A jet of water shot out of the fountain. tree →
- We felt tired from jet lag after flying to Canada. tree →
- The film star jetted off to Paris. tree →
- The cat had jet-black fur. tree →
- Whales blow a jet of air and spray. tree →
- A jet can fly 900 kilometres an hour. tree →
- Colored lamps surrounded little lakes, in which were water-plants of colored metal, from whose flowers jets of water spurted up. tree →
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.
- Octopuses and squid squirt dark ink and jet away, and some squid make an ink blob shaped like themselves as a decoy.
- Gloomy octopuses in Australia were filmed throwing silt and shells with a jet of water, sometimes at each other.
- Squid, octopuses and jellyfish move by pushing out jets of water.
- Saturn's north pole has a six-sided jet stream called the hexagon, each side wider than the Earth.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «jet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.