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What does jet mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word jet? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
  2. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
  3. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
  4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
    1. A turbine.
    2. A rocket engine.
  5. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
  6. (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
  7. (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
  8. (printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
  2. (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
  3. (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
  4. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
  5. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
  6. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
  7. (slang) To leave.
Adjective
  1. Propelled by turbine engines.
Noun
  1. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
  2. The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
Adjective
  1. Very dark black in colour.
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