jetty

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noun

Plural noun:

jettiesjettee

1.
(architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest; specifically, an upper storey which overhangs the part of the building below.
Đồng nghĩa: jutty
2.
(broadly)A structure of stone or wood which extends into a river or sea to protect a bank, beach, harbour, etc., from currents or tides; a breakwater.
Đồng nghĩa: mole
3.
(broadly)A dock or wharf extending into a river from a bank, or into a sea from a shore, for boats to land or moor at; a pier.
Đồng nghĩa: jutty, levee, quay
4.
(broadly, obsolete)Synonym of bulwark (“a defensive rampart or wall”).
Đồng nghĩa: bulwark

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

jetties

V_ing/Gerund

jettying

V_ed/pp

jettied

1.
(transitive)Sometimes followed by out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest.
2.
(broadly, transitive)To provide (a riverbank, seashore, etc.) with a jetty (“breakwater; dock or wharf”) (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).
3.
(intransitive)Sometimes followed by out or over: of (a part of) a building: to jet or project beyond the rest of the building or other structures.
Đồng nghĩa: jutty
4.
(broadly, intransitive)To provide a riverbank, seashore, etc., with a jetty (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).
5.
(intransitive, obsolete, rare)To move with haste.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more jettymost jetty

Superlative

jettierjettiest

1.
(obsolete, rare)Having the characteristic of jetting or jutting out; protruding.
2.
(archaic)Like jet (“a hard, black form of coal”) in colour; jet-black, pitch-black.
Đồng nghĩa: coal black, tar-black
3.
(obsolete, rare)Having a composition like that of jet.

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Đồng nghĩa

jutty mole levee quay bulwarkcoal blacktar-blackbreakwater pier

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro The noun is derived from Late Middle English gete, jette, jetti, from geté, getee, getté, and Middle French geté, getee, jeté (projecting upper storey of a building; breakwater, pier) (modern jetée), a noun use of the past participle of geter, jeter, from Old French geter, jeter (to throw) from iectāre, the present active infinitive of iectō (to throw), probably from Latin iactō (to cast,…