Jet vs Inky - What's the difference?
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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.
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
* Shakespeare
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
Propelled by turbine engines.
A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
Very dark black in colour.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 23:
of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
spattered or stained with ink
Jet is a related term of inky.
As a proper noun jet
is a town in oklahoma.As an adjective inky is
of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.jet
English
(wikipedia jet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) jet, (etyl) get, giet, (etyl) . See (abject), (ejaculate), (gist), (jess), (jut).Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Verb
(jett)- He jets under his advanced plumes.
- to jet upon a prince's right
- (Wiseman)
Adjective
(-)- jet airplane
Etymology 2
From (etyl) / (etyl) jet, jayet, (etyl) gagates after (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- 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 * trijetSee also
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* ----inky
English
Adjective
(er)- Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.