Petted vs Jetted - What's the difference?
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(pet)
An animal kept as a companion.
One who is excessively loyal to a superior.
Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
* Tatler
To stroke or fondle (an animal).
(informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
(informal) Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously.
(dated) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
(archaic) To be a pet.
Favourite; cherished.
* F. Harrison
A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 105:
(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
* 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:
As verbs the difference between petted and jetted
is that petted is (pet) while jetted is (jet).petted
English
Verb
(head)pet
English
Etymology 1
Attested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion"..'>citation The verb is derived from the noun.Noun
(wikipedia pet) {{ picdic , image=Pudel miniatura 342.jpg , detail1= }} (en noun)- the love of cronies, pets , and favourites
Synonyms
* companion animalReferences
Verb
(pett)- His daughter was petted and spoiled.
- (Feltham)
Derived terms
* pet cemetery * pet name * pet peeve * pet project * pet shop * pet store * petting * teacher's petAdjective
(-)- a pet child
- a pet theory
- Some young lady's pet curate.
Etymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- There was something ludicrous, even more, unbecoming a gentleman, in leaving a friend's house in a pet , with the host's reproaches sounding in his ears, to be matched only by the bitterness of the guest's sneering retorts.
Etymology 3
.Etymology 4
.References
*Anagrams
* ----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.
