Noun : a gas jet. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to jet to Las Vegas for the weekend. ,The octopus jetted away from danger. ,The star halfback jetted toward the goal line. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The nonstop service from New York will jet you to Tokyo in 13 hours. From Dictionary.com.
The general rule for jetting is to drop one main jet size for every 2,000 feet of elevation increase. From Wordnik.com. [Tip of the Day: Jet for Altitude] Reference
And as for time, well that soon runs out - why waste it on "jetting". From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Besides, like new highways, more runways will only encourage more frequent use, such as jetting off to Spain and Prague for the weekend. From Wordnik.com. [Bouphonia] Reference
"jetting" system creates very dense foam that replaces the air in the headspace up to the top of the bottle rim. From Wordnik.com. [Packaging and Converting Essentials] Reference
Examples of jetting are given in succeeding section. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
She was jetting all over the globe in a private jet. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2008] Reference
CORRESPONDENT: Well, she'll be jetting off some place. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2009] Reference
She's busy jetting off to exotic locales four times a year. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2004] Reference
Soon he was jetting to Hollywood and neglecting his own family. From Wordnik.com. ['Baby Jessica' Grows Up] Reference
MOOS: JetBlue presents the CEO ` s guide to commercial jetting. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2009] Reference
From this angle we can see fiery debris jetting out of the back. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2007] Reference
From this angle, we can see fiery debris jetting out of the back. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2007] Reference
It looks so precarious, just jetting out over the canyon like that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007] Reference
NARRATOR: Here is Carl, a CEO jetting with JetBlue for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2009] Reference
I looked up just in time to see two small figures jetting away upwards. From Wordnik.com. [A Place so Foreign] Reference
To be fair, some of them go to the trouble of jetting in to South Africa. From Wordnik.com. [The Stink of Burning Rubber] Reference
Before jetting off to the Milan shows, fashionistas paid homage to Mizrahi. From Wordnik.com. [Mizrahi's Final Bow] Reference
So I'm jetting out here as quick as possible to find out if that's my niece. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2007] Reference
The two-time Pulitzer winner was jetting and setting off for Operation Tarball. From Wordnik.com. [WORKING IN OILS: Pulitzer winner STEVE BREEN visits Gulf to create 'spill' cartoons out of BP's own crude] Reference
She's also jetting crew members down -- 150 of them, according to news reports. From Wordnik.com. [Oprah gets interview with 2 Discovery hostages; Australia pays to welcome Oprah] Reference
(On camera): It looks so precarious just jetting out over the canyon like that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007] Reference
And so we could see Hillary Clinton jetting off the Middle East sometime soon, right?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2009] Reference
He's, you know, jetting over there to Washington, D.C. Wait, do we see pictures, possibly?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009] Reference
Shortly after that, he is expected to hold a news conference before jetting off to London. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2008] Reference
Soon she was declaring that she'd "love to be a CEO" and jetting to Acapulco for spring break. From Wordnik.com. [Black in the Age of Obama] Reference
American stars tend not to mingle, each jetting off on their own from tournament to tournament. From Wordnik.com. [America: A Paper Tiger?] Reference
Not a bad fare if you're jetting to Cancun, but a painful price when the destination is Connecticut. From Wordnik.com. [Rental-Car Coping Strategies] Reference
It was by all appearances a fab vacation with all the glamour that comes with jetting off to Europe for a few days. From Wordnik.com. [Visiting Fla. coast, Obama dips in waters, pledges to support oil spill victims] Reference
It was, by all appearances, a fab vacation, with all the glamour that comes with jetting off to Europe for a few days. From Wordnik.com. [Obamas take a short vacation to Panama City, Fla.] Reference
Grosso lives on the run these days, jetting between his Manhattan office and his production center in Toronto's Sky Dome. From Wordnik.com. [Television's Cop Connection] Reference
After his California sales meeting he's jetting to Michigan to visit his fiancee before he heads home -- on Friday the 13th. From Wordnik.com. [Travel: If You're Flying That Day] Reference
Maybe it's jetting around the world in The Amazing Race, or learning to live with strangers in a tropical paradise on Survivor. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Which Reality Competition Show Seems Like the Most Fun?] Reference
The folks from FIFA started their tour in New York on Tuesday, and swung through Washington this morning before jetting off to Miami. From Wordnik.com. [Why the World Cup sales pitch snubbed RFK] Reference
Siff plans to play the lead role and keeps jetting from coast to coast, painting his unusual and unique street campaign everywhere he can. From Wordnik.com. [Paper Magazine: Gregory Siff's Cinematic Street Art] Reference
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