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aeroplane
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Aeroplane " is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 1995 album One Hot Minute . It was the third single released from the album and a music video accompanied its release. Although the song was left off the band's Greatest Hits album, the music ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1866, from French aéroplane (1855), from Greek aero- "air" (see air (n.1)) + stem of French planer "to soar," from Latin planus "level, flat" (see plane (n.1)). Originally in reference to surfaces (such as the protective shell casings of beetles' wings); ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Australia New Zealand South Africa British English) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings. 2 (cx aeronautics archaic English) An airfoil.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB fly ▪ But to leave it there is about as practical as learning to fly an aeroplane by reading a book on the subject. ▪ Four months ago, you know, he could not even fly an aeroplane . ▪ Throughout 1912 he test flew aeroplanes ...
Usage examples of aeroplane.
The aeronaut dangled weirdly head downward among the leaves and branches some yards away, and Bert only discovered him as he turned from the aeroplane.
What time is that naval lieutenant coming to look over the Prescott aeroplane, Peggy?
Harding, the banker and local magnate of Sandy Beach, whose money it was that had financed the new aeroplane concern.
In the volume referred to, it was also related how Peter Bell, an old hermit, had been discovered by means of the Prescott aeroplane, and restored to his brother, a wealthy mining magnate.
By the agency of the aeroplane, a mine--otherwise inaccessible--had been opened up by Mr.
The aeroplane and Peggy Prescott played an important part in their adventures and perils.
Notably so, when in a neck-to-neck dash with an express train, the aeroplane won out in a race to file the location papers of the mine at Monument Rocks.
It works by pneumatic power, and does away with the old-fashioned method of starting an aeroplane by twisting the propeller.
But the words had hardly left his lips before the aeroplane was back on a level keel once more.
One of those sudden storms of summer had blown up from the sea, and Peggy knew enough of Long Island weather to know that these disturbances were usually accompanied by terrific winds--squalls and gusts that no aeroplane yet built or thought of could hope to cope with.
Peggy in dragging the aeroplane under the shelter of an open cart-shed.
He was to have taken in the establishment of the Mortlake Aeroplane Company this afternoon.
Of course, he did not ask him his opinion of the Prescott aeroplane, but from remarks Lieut.
He had half a mind to return to the farm and bring the aeroplane home himself.
But the storm came up sharper than ever that evening, and even had he wished to, Roy would have found it impossible to handle the aeroplane alone in the heavy wind that came now in puffs and now in a steady gale.