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Beginning of a plane trip
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takeoff
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Word definitions for takeoff in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also take-off , "caricature," colloquial, 1846, from earlier sense of "thing that detracts from something, drawback" (1826), from take (v.) + off (adv.). Meaning "act of becoming airborne" is from 1904 in reference to aircraft; in reference to jumping, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The rising or ascent of an aircraft or rocket into flight. 2 A parody or lampoon of someone or something. 3 A quantification, especially of building materials. 4 (cx printing UK historical English) The removal of sheets from the press. 5 The spot from ...
Usage examples of takeoff.
Nonetheless, Major Tim Benson, airdrome defense officer, scrambled every available fighter ready for takeoff.
And meanwhile, Nom Anor made a mental note to have his coralcraft fed, groomed, and prepped for sudden takeoff.
May 21, the opening day of the 1982 war, it took about three minutes and one British thousand-pound bomb to render Argentinian takeoffs and landings from the Falklands virtually impossible for fast-jet aircraft, for the entire duration of the war.
When during takeoff a helicopter pilot detects or senses that something is not going exactly as it should be going, he can raise the forward end of the rotor cone, which reduces or eliminates forward speed, and he can thereafter make a powered or unpowered descent an autorotation to the ground immediately under him.
Raven Blackheart Lansing to her new home was fueled and waiting for their arrival and immediate takeoff.
If takeoff is delayed for some reason, the aircraft may have to be deiced again while it waits, just in case.
From that incident, the aviation industry gained a new understanding of how important it was to have planes properly deiced before takeoff in frigid weather.
The flaps were down for maximum lift, which would use three times as much fuel as a regular takeoff, but that was a problem to deal with once they were in the air.
He wrote the takeoff time on his kneeboard and picked up his map, already folded for the route of flight.
Countless analog machines scurried everywhere along her decks, stowing landside gear before it was forever lost in the takeoff.
UNSA personnel had congregated in the messroom at Pithead to watch the takeoff, the view of which was being relayed from Main Base and shown on the wall screen.
She laid the staff down on the aircar floor and began strapped in for takeoff.
The pilot had announced that the plane had been hijacked shortly after takeoff.
For the first time since his first takeoff Michel was not in complete control of what his Lancelot was doing.
Navy pilots, making far more takeoffs and landings, lost not a single man.