jet

IPA(Pronunciation)

/d͡ʒɛt/

Verb

intransitive transitive slang

(intransitive) To spray out of a container. / (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container. / (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion

Japanese Meaning

容器から液体が噴射される / 容器から液体を噴射する（何かに対して） / ジェット推進やジェット機での移動をする

What is this buttons?

When I pressed the nozzle, the soda began to jet all over the counter.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ノズルを押すと、ソーダがカウンター全体に吹き出した。

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Sense（1）

(intransitive) To spray out of a container.

Sense（2）

(transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.

Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.

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Sense（3）

(intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion

Sense（4）

(intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around

Sense（5）

To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

The Town has the outer Branch of the River behind it, and the Harbour before it, jetting into which latter are cloſe Keys for the weighing and receiving of Cuſtomage on Merchandize, and for the meeting and conferring of Merchants and Traders.

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Sense（6）

To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous

It is to jet upon a prince’s right?

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Sense（7）

To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.

A Lady was wounded down the whole Length of the Forehead to the Nose […] It happened to her travelling in a Hackney-Coach, upon the jetting whereof she was thrown out of the hinder Seat against a Bar of Iron in the forepart of the Coach.

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Sense（8）

To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet

The cure is to jet the carburetor excessively rich so that the mixture will be correct at the top end, but this richens the curve throughout the RPM range.

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