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Definition of Airplane
1. Noun. An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets. "The flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
Examples of category: Circumnavigation, Defroster, Deicer, Dip Circle, Inclinometer, Roll-on Roll-off, Log, Place, Seat, Highjacker, Hijacker, Passenger, Rider, Drift, Leeway, Atomic Number 22, Ti, Titanium, Prang, Hunt, Astern
Terms within: Accelerator, Accelerator Pedal, Gas, Gas Pedal, Gun, Throttle, Escape Hatch, Fuselage, Bonnet, Cowl, Cowling, Hood, Landing Gear, Navigation Light, Fuel Pod, Pod, Radar Dome, Radome, Windscreen, Windshield, Wing
Specialized synonyms: Airliner, Amphibian, Amphibious Aircraft, Biplane, Bomber, Delta Wing, Attack Aircraft, Fighter, Fighter Aircraft, Hangar Queen, Jet, Jet Plane, Jet-propelled Plane, Monoplane, Multiengine Airplane, Multiengine Plane, Propeller Plane, Reconnaissance Plane, Hydroplane, Seaplane, Ski-plane, Tanker Plane
Generic synonyms: Heavier-than-air Craft
Definition of Airplane
1. Noun. (American English) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Airplane
1. a winged aircraft propelled by jet engines or propellers [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Airplane
Literary usage of Airplane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aircraft Year Book by Manufacturers Aircraft Association (1921)
"airplane used in action. Best of Luck, The, Metro film, featuring Jack ...
airplane used to locate scenes. Eagle's Eye, The; Associated First National Film. ..."
2. Transactions by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1919)
"1655 PROPERTIES OF airplane FABRICS By E. Dean Walen, Boston, Mass. Junior Member
of the Society The author presents a brief ..."
3. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1917)
"But The greatest use of the airplane eventually will be to prevent war. ...
"The airplane will prevent war by making it too expensive, too slow, ..."
4. Government War Contracts by John Franklin Crowell (1920)
"CHAPTER XXVI Essential Aspects of airplane Spruce Contracts Contracting operations
in supplying the airplane spruce lumber, which enters so largely into the ..."
5. Wings of War: An Account of the Important Contribution of the United States by Theodore Macfarlane Knappen (1920)
"IT is not possible in a brief work to discuss in detail the important subject of
airplane equipment. Machine guns and photographic equipment have been ..."
6. Preliminary Economic Studies of the War by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division for Economics and History (1920)
"CHAPTER XXVI Essential Aspects of airplane Spruce Contracts Contracting operations
in supplying the airplane spruce lumber, which enters so largely into the ..."
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