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air-conditioning

n. (context UK English) (alternative spelling of air conditioning English) vb. (present participle of air-condition English)

Usage examples of "air-conditioning".

In the middle of my attempting to explain that Darlene was not the air-conditioning repairman, Abey Fields came up.

Yellow huffers were attached to each aircraft by an umbilical, powering the jets to provide air-conditioning, but the hot sun baking down through the shaded canopies still raised the interior temperature to unholy levels.

Between that, the Kouros, and the lack of air-conditioning, the room was close to unbearable.

Slightly puzzled, shrugging, I carried my bag and the recorder up to my room, rewound the tape I had collected, and started it to run through while I took off my city suit and turned the air-conditioning to high.

It felt good to lean back against vinyl cooled by air-conditioning and let Barth keep the car on the road.

In an attempt to be kind, Barth left the radio and the air-conditioning on.

This was another large prefabricated warehouse, fitted with airtight doors and a powerful air-conditioning unit to maintain the scrolls in an atmosphere of optimum temperature and humidity.

The rest of us worked inside, fixing temporary bunks to the walls and installing the permanent air-conditioning and water-recovery system, although the algae, oxygen-producing, sewage-disposal complex would have to wait until later.

The air-conditioning had been switched off, and a woman passenger trapped in an elevator between the 10th and nth floors became hysterical, possibly the victim of a minor sexual assaultthe restoration of light in due course revealed its crop of illicit liaisons flourishing in the benevolent conditions of total darkness like a voracious plant species.

They are master architects, building nests of wondrous design and symmetry, complete with air-conditioning systems.

With the air-conditioning on high, she sprays breath freshener on a handkerchief and holds it over her nose.

Enjoying the summerlike, evening air, Gaetano had opted to leave the air-conditioning off.

Not only did they precede us by more than two hundred million years, but termites had air-conditioning before we had houses and wasps could paralyse their prey before we had anaesthesia.

In the offices of Belvedere Post-Production the air-conditioning was off.

Conversations were shouted, air-conditioning was a steady buzz, cybofax alarm bleepers were going off continuously, the PA kept up a steady stream of directions.