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airborne
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Airborne is an American contemporary jazz / smooth jazz / world fusion band, formed in the late 1980s. Airborne the proclaimed “Musical Peacemakers” of Contemporary Jazz sends out an Inspirational Message of Hope to the World. They are a multi-cultural ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "carried through the air," from air (n.1) + borne . Of military units, from 1937.
Usage examples of airborne.
Be advised that Alert Five aircraft, call sign Backstop, are airborne and on intercept course with Bravo.
In a series of airborne sweeps , into Baffin Island, up to Resolute and around the great arcs ofJames and Hudson bays, I interviewed many of these Bay men and their aboriginal clients, the Injians and Inuit who people this volume.
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The Luftwaffe were already attacking the Suez Canal from bases in the Dodecanese, and they could obviously, if they chose, operate against Syria, especially with airborne troops.
Just last year there had been an outbreak in the Southwest of hantavirus, an airborne viral infection carried by rats and field mice.
He infected monkeys with Marburg and Ebola by letting them breathe it into their lungs, and he discovered that a very small dose of airborne Marburg or Ebola could start an explosive infection in a monkey.
Nancy Jaax described the incident in which her two healthy monkeys had died of presumably airborne Ebola in the weeks after the bloody-glove incident, in 1983.
All of the monkeys exposed to airborne virus had died except for one monkey, which managed to survive Marburg.
By the time the mujahedin had decided to withdraw from the battlefield a flight of MiG 27 and two gunships based at Kabul were already airborne.
Wilson replied that the 504th Paratroop Regiment was seaborne and not airborne because of a last-minute decision by General Clark.
Airborne plagues could kill quickly, or change the neuronal patterns of the plagued to fill them with any thoughts the creator of the plague might desire.
In each room one hundred three prods worked, inserting logic circuits in anything from electric toothbrushes to airborne, heat-seeking mini-bombs designed for law enforcement.
Secret Service after hearing secondhand reports that it wanted fighters airborne.
Airborne and 101st Airborne, 716th Military Police Battalion protested resegregation in writing: Army History, pp.
Prions were particulate and subviral in size, so since certain viruses could be airborne, why not certain prions?