jetty

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest; specifically, an upper storey which overhangs the part of the building below.

   “Spérto, a porch, a portall, a baie vvindovv, or out butting, or iettie of a houſe that ietties out farther than anie other part of the houſe, a iettie or butte.”

2. isim 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.

   “[I]t appeareth that all the auncient Townes and Citties which ſtand vppon the Riuers of Rhyne and Danowe, towardes Fraunce and Italy, did ſerue rather for a Banke or Iettie againſt the ouerflowing of the Germanes, than for Fortreſſes to aſſayle them withall.”

3. isim 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.

   “There are excellent jetties for landing by boat at the Marine Hotel, and the Vine Inn; […]”

4. isim A natural piece of land projecting into a body of water; a peninsula, a promontory.
5. isim In full air jetty: synonym of jet bridge (“an elevated, usually enclosed, corridor connecting an airport to an aeroplane for embarking and disembarking crew and passengers”).
6. isim Synonym of bulwark (“a defensive rampart or wall”).
7. fiil Sometimes followed by out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest.

   “Adentellare, […] It is properly to ietty out, or indent ſtones or timber of any vnfinished building, that another may the eaſier be ioyned vnto, or that finiſhed.”

8. fiil 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).

   “The land is indeed materially injured in many parts, for want of drains; but I think the expence would exceed the profit: they would soon lodge up, and consequently want jettying on the sides.”

9. fiil 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.

   “Spérto, a porch, a portall, a baie vvindovv, or out butting, or iettie of a houſe that ietties out farther than anie other part of the houſe, a iettie or butte.”

10. fiil To provide a riverbank, seashore, etc., with a jetty (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).
11. sıfat Having the characteristic of jetting or jutting out; protruding.

    “Tvviſe tvventie Iettie ſailes vvith him, the ſvvelling ſtreame did take.”

12. sıfat Like jet (“a hard, black form of coal”) in colour; jet-black, pitch-black.

    “Blacke are his colloures, blacke Pauillion, / His ſpeare, his ſhield, his horſe, his armour, plumes, / And Ietty Feathers menace death and hell, / VVithout reſpect of ſex, degree or age.”

13. sıfat Having a composition like that of jet.
14. fiil To move with haste.

    “Some knack not vnpretye, / of Huſwiferie nettie, / how Huſwiues ſhould iettie / from morning to night.”