Letted vs Jetted - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (let); hindered.
(label) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without (to)).
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*(Bible), (w) viii. 28
*:Pharaoh said, I will let you go.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is
*1971 , , (The Tombs of Atuan)
*:He could not be let die of thirst there alone in the dark.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets, / But to her mother Nature all her care she lets .
(label) To allow the release of (a fluid).
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(label) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
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(label) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out .
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To cause (+ bare infinitive).
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*1818 , (John Keats), "To—":
*:Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, / Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand.
(archaic) To hinder, prevent; to obstruct (someone or something).
* Bible, 2. Thessalonians ii. 7
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To prevent or obstruct (to) do something, or (that) something happen.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts VIII:
An obstacle or hindrance.
*, II.16:
*:Paulus Emilius'' going to the glorious expedition of ''Macedon'', advertised the people of ''Rome'' during his absence not to speake of his actions: ''For the licence of judgements is an especiall let in great affaires.
*Latimer
*:Consider whether your doings be to the let of your salvation or not.
(tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
(jet)
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
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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:
As verbs the difference between letted and jetted
is that letted is (archaic) (let); hindered while jetted is (jet).letted
English
Verb
(head)let
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) leten, .Verb
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
- Soo within a whyle kynge Pellinore cam with a grete hoost / and salewed the peple and the kyng / and ther was grete ioye made on euery syde / Thenne the kyng lete serche how moche people of his party ther was slayne / And ther were founde but lytel past two honderd men slayne and viij kny?tes of the table round in their pauelions
Synonyms
* (to allow) allow, permitUsage notes
The use of "let" to introduce an imperative may sometimes be confused with its use, as its own imperative , in the sense of "to allow". For example, the sentence "Let me go to the store." could either be a second-person imperative of "let" (addressing someone who might prevent the speaker from going to the store) or a first-person singular imperative of "go" (not implying any such preventer).Etymology 2
(etyl) . More at late, delay.Verb
- He who now letteth' will ' let , until he be taken out of the way.
- Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, / And lets me from the saddle.
- And as they went on their waye, they cam unto a certayne water, and the gelded man sayde: Se here is water, what shall lett me to be baptised?
Noun
(en noun)Statistics
*jetted
English
Verb
(head)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.