Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
jutting . Seejut .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective being propelled violently in a usually narrow stream; -- of liquids.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
jet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective propelled violently in a usually narrow stream
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Examples
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The general rule for jetting is to drop one main jet size for every 2,000 feet of elevation increase.
Tip of the Day: Jet for Altitude Cassandra 2009
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Besides, like new highways, more runways will only encourage more frequent use, such as jetting off to Spain and Prague for the weekend.
Bouphonia 2010
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And as for time, well that soon runs out - why waste it on "jetting".
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"Blue Betty," a simulated airline cabin where students could get the "jetting" experience in leather seats, with DIRECTV, XM Radio and in-flight movies.
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"Blue Betty," a simulated airline cabin where students could get the "jetting" experience in leather seats, with DIRECTV, XM Radio and in-flight movies.
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"jetting" system creates very dense foam that replaces the air in the headspace up to the top of the bottle rim.
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We'll Take Manhattan BBC4 told the story of a baby David Bailey and his muse and mistress Jean Shrimpton – still very much the raw prawn herself – jetting off to New York in 1962 to do the rule-shattering Young Idea Goes West photoshoot for Vogue, all battered teddy bears, gritty streetscapes and the extraordinarily ordinary gangly girl next door, that would establish them for ever as icons of the 60s' cultural revolution.
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Two years ago, when Baldwin was working on 30 Rock in New York, jetting through the night to California to visit his daughter on weekends, and getting really, really, really angry at the court, he stepped away from a dinner table in Manhattan to place a call to her.
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He is given earplugs to dampen the continuous jetting of the high-frequency ventilator that is like a wash cycle forever in its final spin, but there is no way of telling what he actually hears.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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When he's not jetting between Dubai and Paris, London and New York checking up on projects, the 55-year-old designer enjoys nothing more than playing the tourist at home in Milan, where he spends his weekends riding his bike or roaming the streets with his three golden retrievers, Sophia, Satisfaction and Summertime, in tow.
Piero Lissoni Designs an Ideal Weekend Natalia Rachlin 2011
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