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het | jet |

As a pronoun het

is she.

As a proper noun jet is

a town in oklahoma.

het

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

  • (countable, slang, ) A heterosexual person.
  • (uncountable, fandom slang) Fan fiction]] based on [[celebrity, celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship.
  • * 2005 , Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online , Peter Lang (2005), ISBN 0820471186, page 207:
  • Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters.
  • * 2006 , Catherine Driscoll, "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (eds. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), McFarland & Company (2006), ISBN 9780786426409, page 84:
  • The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction.
  • * 2010 , Rebecca Ward Black, "Just Don't Call Them Cartoons: The New Literacy Spaces of Anime, Manga, and Fanfiction", in Handbook of Research on New Literacies (eds. Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, & Donald J. Leu), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2010), ISBN 9780805856514, page 595:
  • Other studies explore why some women write het'' , or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as ''Star Trek Voyager that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002).
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  • Synonyms
    * (fan fiction) hetfic

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Heterosexual.
  • Etymology 2

    Strong conjugation of heat

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dialect) (heat)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialect) Heated.
  • Derived terms
    * het up

    Anagrams

    * ----

    jet

    English

    (wikipedia jet)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) jet, (etyl) get, giet, (etyl) . See (abject), (ejaculate), (gist), (jess), (jut).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
  • A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
  • A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
  • An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
  • # A turbine.
  • # A rocket engine.
  • A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
  • (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
  • (dated) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
  • (printing, dated) The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
  • (Knight)

    Verb

    (jett)
  • To spray out of a container.
  • To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
  • To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
  • To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
  • To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He jets under his advanced plumes.
  • * Shakespeare
  • to jet upon a prince's right
  • To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
  • (Wiseman)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Propelled by turbine engines.
  • jet airplane

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) / (etyl) jet, jayet, (etyl) gagates after (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
  • The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Very dark black in colour.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 23:
  • She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which large jet buttons glittered.

    Derived terms

    * bubble-jet printer * cool one's jets * executive jet * fanjet * gas jet * ink-jet printer * jet-black * jet boat * jet engine * jet fighter, fighter jet * jet lag * jet off * jet set * jet stream, jetstream * jet wash * jet turbine * jetbead * jetfoil * jetliner * jetpack * jetport * jet-propelled * jetsam * jetski, jet ski * jetter * jettison * jetwash * jumbo jet * jump jet * pulse jet * ram jet, ramjet * superjet * trijet

    See also

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    References

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