hangar
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ər noun
1.
a shed or shelter.
2.
any relatively wide structure used for housing airplanes or airships.
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3.
to keep (an aircraft) in a hangar: She spent a fortune hangaring her plane.
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| —n | |
| a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft | |
| [C19: from French: shed, perhaps from Medieval Latin angārium shed used as a smithy, of obscure origin] | |
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Word Origin & History
hangar
1852, "shed for carriages," from Fr. hangar "shed," from M.Fr. hanghart, perhaps an alteration of M.Du. *ham-gaerd "enclosure near a house," or from M.L. angarium "shed in which horses are shod." Sense of "covered shed for airplanes" first recorded in Eng. 1902, from Fr. use in that sense.
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Example sentences
It's so large it's housed in a building the size of an aircraft hangar.
Employees signed secrecy agreements and worked inside a giant hangar until the night the video was made.
He said the plane struck a part of the hangar away from any workers and damaged a wall.
We work from the helicopter hangar on the upper deck.
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