airplane
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noun
1.
a heavier-than-air aircraft kept aloft by the upward thrust exerted by the passing air on its fixed wings and driven by propellers, jet propulsion, etc.
2.
any similar heavier-than-air aircraft, as a glider or helicopter.
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aeroplane or (US and Canadian) airplane (ˈɛərəˌpleɪn, ˈɛəˌpleɪn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a heavier-than-air powered flying vehicle with fixed wings | |
| [C19: from French aéroplane, from | |
| airplane or (US and Canadian) airplane | |
| —n | |
| [C19: from French aéroplane, from | |
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Airplane
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| airplane (ˈɛəˌpleɪn) | |
| —n | |
| (US), (Canadian) Also called: aeroplane a heavier-than-air powered flying vehicle with fixed wings | |
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Word Origin & History
airplane
1907, from air (1) + plane; though the original references are British, the word caught on in Amer.Eng., where it largely superseded earlier aeroplane (1873 in this sense and still common in British Eng.; q.v.). Aircraft
"airplane" also is also from 1907; airship is 1888, from Ger. Luftschiff "motor-driver dirigible."
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Example sentences
And yet airplane electronics, or avionics to use the technical term, do not routinely squawk or fail.
Notice the little airplane symbol at the top of the search results.
On the floor whirred a gigantic unshielded fan that seemed designed to cool an airplane hangar.
There are less degenerate ways to solve the problem of airplane noise, an annoyance rapidly evolving into a menace.
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