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Jet vs Jut - What's the difference?

jet | jut |

In intransitive terms the difference between jet and jut

is that jet is to move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around while jut is to stick out.

As an adjective jet

is propelled by turbine engines.

As a proper noun Jet

is a town in Oklahoma.

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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    jut

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • something that sticks out
  • * 1999 , Stardust , , page 3 (2001 Perennial Edition).
    • The town of Wall stands today as it has stood for six hundred years, on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland.

    Verb

    (jutt)
  • to stick out
    • the jutting part of a building
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1997 , author=(Don DeLillo) , chapter=1 , title=Underworld , passage=...enormous Chesterfield packs aslant on the scoreboards, a couple of cigarettes jutting from each.}}
  • (obsolete) To butt.
  • * Mason
    • the jutting steer