Basic Guidelines For English Spellings
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noun
1‘a jet of water went down his neck’
SYNONYMS
stream, spurt, squirt, spray, fountain, spout
gush, outpouring, rush, surge, burst, spill, flow, flood, cascade, torrent, current
2‘the carburettor jets can get clogged’
SYNONYMS
nozzle, head, spray, rose, atomizer, sprinkler, sprinkler head, spout, nose
technical sparkler, spile
3‘they found an executive jet to fly me back’
SYNONYMS
jet plane, jetliner
aircraft, plane
British aeroplane
verb
1‘they jetted out of Heathrow last night’
SYNONYMS
fly, go by jet, travel by jet, go by plane, travel by plane, go by air, travel by air
2‘little puffs of gas jetted out’
SYNONYMS
squirt, spurt, shoot, spray, fountain, erupt
gush, pour, stream, rush, pump, surge, spew, spill, flow, course, well, spring, burst, issue, emanate
British informal sloosh
adjective
1‘her glossy jet hair’
SYNONYMS
black, jet black, pitch black, as black as pitch, pitchy, pitch dark, inky, ink black, sloe black, coal black, ebony, raven, sable, sooty
Phrases
- jet set
‘she moves from village life to international jet set’
SYNONYMS
the smart set, the fashionable, the A-list, the wealthy, the beautiful people, the crème de la crème, the beau monde, the haut monde
high society, society, polite society, the elite, the privileged classes
informal the top drawer
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