jet

jet
[[t]ʤe̱t[/t]]
♦♦♦
jets, jetting, jetted
1) N-COUNT: also by N A jet is an aircraft that is powered by jet engines.
→ See also jump jet

Her private jet landed in the republic on the way to Japan...

He had arrived from Jersey by jet.

...America's first jet aircraft.

2) VERB If you jet somewhere, you travel there in a fast plane.

[V adv/prep] He and his wife, Val, will be jetting off on a two-week holiday in America...

[V adv/prep] They spend a great deal of time jetting around the world.

3) N-COUNT: oft N of n A jet of liquid or gas is a strong, fast, thin stream of it.

A jet of water poured through the windows.

4) N-UNCOUNT Jet is a hard black stone that is used in jewellery.

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