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Well-defined prevailing wind
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airstream
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a relatively well-defined prevailing wind the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller [syn: slipstream , race , backwash , wash ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Airstream is a brand of luxury trailers ("caravans" in British English ) which are easily recognized by the distinctive shape of their rounded polished aluminum coachwork. This body shape dates back to the 1930s and is based on designs created by Hawley ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
airstream \air"stream`\ n. a relatively well-defined prevailing wind. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller. Syn: slipstream, race, backwash, wash
Usage examples of airstream.
His widow sold their house and moved in with a sister, but not before signing over the Airstream to Boomer.
Each morning before he went to work, Boomer would stand in his driveway, hands on his hips, scrutinize the Airstream, and shake his head.
Well, sex, love, and art intermingled when Boomer eased the remodeled Airstream into her apartment house parking lot.
The road was as straight as a shot of grain alcohol, and the jackrabbits, well, each individual rabbit had the right to make his or her own choice when it came to crossing the path of an onrushing Airstream turkey.
Like all inanimate objects everywhere, the three displaced articles from the Airstream turkey knew instinctively what the seashell was talking about.
Even as she was protesting, however, she was gazing past him, through an Airstream window, at the sun climbing above the lightly dusted hills, and thinking how she would like to paint it as a neon fox tongue licking up the powdered bones of angels.
Ellen Cherry sat on the Airstream doorstep, sawing and raking with the comb.
Minnesota then, mind you, Minnesota and Wisconsin, stray grains of wedding rice still sparkling here and there on the Airstream carpet.
The day they arrived in New York, they had aimed the Airstream directly for Seventy-third and Broadway, where a one-bedroom apartment awaited them in the orchidaceous Ansonia Hotel.
She was pitching the Airstream two or three times a week, Boomer at her side.
On the day after Christmas, Verlin and Patsy went to the Museum of Modern Art to have a look at the Airstream turkey.
Most of the period that she had been in New York, beginning around the time of the sale of the Airstream turkey, Ellen Cherry experienced a sensation of internal pressure.
The reserve chute is worn in front, and the whipping airstream sometimes gets inside and rips the pack open, dragging the chute and the jumper out the door prematurely.
Hiro whips past a big Airstream that is rocking from side to side in a dangerous wind coming down the valley.
At about six hundred feet, Jim spread his wings into soaring position and rode the airstream like an eagle.