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A craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines
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hovercraft
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport. 2 (plural of hovercraft English)Category:English plurals
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ From 75 minutes by car ferry and from 30 minutes by hovercraft . ▪ It is certainly the only time I have played at a ground with a hovercraft as a pavilion. ▪ Much of the £1 million spent annually on hovercraft research and development ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hovercraft is a craft capable of traveling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces both at speed and when stationary. Hovercraft may also refer to: Hovercraft (band) , an American experimental rock band "Hovercraft", an episode of the television ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines [syn: ground-effect machine ]
Usage examples of hovercraft.
As Ray and the other dogs rushed to join the melee, Ake slowly got out of the hovercraft, stretched his legs, and waved knowingly at a figure standing and watching all the commotion from a respectful distance.
He rolled onto his stomach as he aquaplaned across the ice, and in one swift movement he drew his Maghook from behind his back and looked up at the rear of the hovercraft as it sped away from him.
Before Arak could finish, the hovercraft came to a sudden stop then rapidly descended.
Schofield looked back through his rear windshield, through the blur of his rear turbofan and saw the three hovercrafts behind him.
Dane concealed the hovercraft behind a shuttle bay, then led Aiyana and Batty toward the nearest vehicle.
Perhaps the Angels will one day follow the Freemasons into bourgeois senility, but by then some other group will be making outrage headlines: a Hovercraft gang, or maybe some once-bland fraternal group tooling up even now for whatever the future might force on them.
They were going from Dover this time, with the Hovercraft, an early evening crossing which meant that they would be back in Groningen well before midnight.
The big, bad Mec went down like a de-pressurized hovercraft, his hat rolling off his head like tumbleweed.
He knew that MI-6 and other intelligence agencies kept the Hovercraft under surveillance the same as they did major airports and railway stations.
They went over on the hovercraft and, since Ethel Cross and Oliver were both immersed in papers, Beatrice opened the paperback she had had the forethought to bring with her, and pretended to read.
Marlin sent out robot hovercraft and is having two superheavies repaired.
They had more coffee and sandwiches on the Hovercraft once they had boarded it at Ca lais and, once free of Customs, they drove up the M2, through the Blackwall Tunnel and so northwards to Hertfordshire.
Led by a red Bioroid like a crimson vision of death, the Masters' warriors dove their Hovercraft and sought targets, firing and firing.
As they went they began dropping Bioroids, the mecha dispersing and advancing on their antigrav Hovercraft for an attack.
Fully assembled the hovercraft was a simple affair, with a big fan at the rear and two cycloidal impellers filling the skirt with air.