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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aviation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
aviation fuel (=used used by planes)
▪ high-octane aviation fuel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civil
▪ The proposed merger called into question Britain's civil aviation policy of the previous twenty years.
▪ In addition to civil aviation crashes, the independent board looks into some highway, railroad, marine and pipeline accidents.
▪ The Assembly passed a law on civil aviation and amended existing legislation on export-import taxes.
▪ At the same time Beaverbrook told the House of Lords of Britain's willingness to attend an international conference on civil aviation.
▪ Far better, perhaps, to concentrate on civil aviation.
▪ This radical and sweeping blueprint for Britain's peacetime civil aviation industry was considered by the War Cabinet on 25 February 1943.
▪ The comparable figures for research connected with defence, space and civil aviation were £1343 million, £52 million and £69 million.
▪ Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, asked them to what extent the full internationalization of civil aviation was possible.
general
▪ In other words, they become true general practitioners in aviation.
▪ It now handles roughly 220, 000 takeoffs and landings a year of the smaller, mostly general aviation aircraft.
light
▪ I came across on this trip. Light aviation is thriving too.
▪ There is a light aviation service on Prestel, Skymaster, which receives, on average, about 400 calls a day.
▪ Let us get our own house in order for the benefit of the regulation of light aviation in general.
■ NOUN
enthusiast
▪ Everyone there was an aviation enthusiast - they either flew or wanted to fly.
▪ Heraldry is a fascinating subject, one to which aviation enthusiasts are naturally drawn.
fuel
▪ Two of the torpedoes struck below the waterline on the port side near the aviation fuel tanks.
▪ The engines of the Atlas burned a modified aviation fuel, similar to kerosene, with liquid oxygen.
▪ The company also expects to increase its sales in the aviation fuel nozzle servicing business.
▪ In a moment the flight deck is an inferno of aviation fuel.
▪ Shattered homes were ablaze and trees torched by flaming aviation fuel.
▪ Gasoline, aviation fuel, heating oil, and diesel fuel tank farms are always located near centers of demand.
▪ As the protest spread at least three airports reported they would be out of aviation fuel by this morning.
▪ They steal aviation fuel for their lamps, and sometimes the lamps explode.
history
▪ Read in studio One of the most famous warplanes in aviation history is about to make its farewell appearance.
▪ Local aviation history is strongly represented, too.
industry
▪ This led in turn to the most highly successful venture in buying and selling of business aircraft the aviation industry had seen.
▪ This radical and sweeping blueprint for Britain's peacetime civil aviation industry was considered by the War Cabinet on 25 February 1943.
▪ It's proving indispensable to the aviation industry and to astronomers.
▪ However, some of the problems that were to haunt the postwar aviation industry had already begun to appear.
safety
▪ There isn't all that much in the world of aviation safety that is left entirely to luck.
▪ We do that regularly for aviation safety matters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the same time Beaverbrook told the House of Lords of Britain's willingness to attend an international conference on civil aviation.
▪ Finally Brooks of Clapham included a varied and most interesting collection of aviation memorabilia in their sale on September 15.
▪ Gasoline, aviation fuel, heating oil, and diesel fuel tank farms are always located near centers of demand.
▪ Light aviation is an unpredictable business.
▪ Now with Amelia, Gosmo had the first aviation editor.
▪ Roosevelt, like Churchill, saw the significance of postwar civil aviation, and believed in free and open competition.
▪ Schiavo is correct in pointing out that there are many aspects of commercial aviation in need of safer practices.
▪ This radical and sweeping blueprint for Britain's peacetime civil aviation industry was considered by the War Cabinet on 25 February 1943.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aviation

Aviation \A`vi*a"tion\, n. The art or science of flying.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aviation

1866, from French aviation, noun of action from stem of Latin avis "bird" (see aviary). Coined 1863 by French aviation pioneer Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle (1812-1886) in "Aviation ou Navigation aérienne."

Wiktionary
aviation

n. 1 The art or science of making and flying aircraft. 2 Flying, operating, or operation of aircraft. 3 Industry that produces aircraft. 4 (context collectively military English) aircraft 5 A cocktail made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette and lemon juice

WordNet
aviation
  1. n. the aggregation of a country's military aircraft [syn: air power]

  2. the operation of aircraft to provide transportation

  3. the art of operating aircraft [syn: airmanship]

  4. travel via aircraft; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air" [syn: air travel, air]

Wikipedia
Aviation

Aviation is the practical aspect or art of aeronautics, being the design, development, production, operation and use of aircraft, especially heavier than air aircraft. The word aviation was coined by French writer and former naval officer Gabriel La Landelle in 1863, from the verb avier (synonymous flying), itself derived from the Latin word avis ("bird") and the suffix -ation.

Aviation (cocktail)

The Aviation is a classic cocktail made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette, and lemon juice. Some recipes omit the crème de violette. It is served straight up, in a cocktail glass.

Aviation (album)

Aviation is the third studio album of the New York-based alternative rock band Semi Precious Weapons. It was released on April 22, 2014 by RedZone Records.

Aviation (disambiguation)

Aviation refers to powered flight

Aviation may also refer to:

Aviation (song)

"Aviation" is the third single by English band The Last Shadow Puppets from their second studio album, Everything You've Come to Expect. It was released on 16 March 2016 on Domino Records.

Usage examples of "aviation".

Czechoslovakia by German armies or aviation in force will bring about renewal of the World War.

As he reached it, a fellow chief, this one a chief aviation pilot with the wings of a Naval Aviator on his shirt, appeared in the fuselage bubble gingerly holding a canvas suitcase in his fingers.

Private First Class Suzanne Marie Collins reported to MATSS-902-Marine Aviation Training Support Squadron 902-at the Memphis Naval Air Station in Millington, Tennessee, on October 20, 1984, to begin Class A avionics school.

Many aviation and engineering workshops were damaged around Tempelhof Airport, where two light aircraft parked in the open were destroyed and where a Stirling bomber crashed.

Aviation Unit of the NYPD dispatched two helicopters to the WTC to report on conditions and assess the feasibility of a rooftop landing or of special rescue operations.

The airport was obsolescent because---as had happened so often in the short six decades of modern aviation history---air progress had eclipsed prediction.

Soviets had included the last location because they knew that Norman Grant, a major force in aviation and space groups in the Senate, lived there.

See FAA report, Civil Aviation Reference Handbook, May 1999, appendix D.

TSA also needs to intensify its efforts to identify, track, and appropriately screen potentially dangerous cargo in both the aviation and maritime sectors.

A force of four to six divisions along with a couple of ACRs and extra aviation brigades should have little difficulty overrunning the Iraqi armed forces and conquering the country, but it never hurts to be certain, and in this situation we need to be certain.

Topics for discussion included the future of aviation, the art of Japan, and the parasitology of fish.

She hears people gibbering about Osama and al-Qaeda and she tries to think of the awful fireball approaching and the panic and the noise and the pyrolytic reek of burning aviation fuel and those microseconds of blind terror and all she can concentrate on is the window repairman with his bag of tools and triplicate dockets to sign.

Kelly had left the Marine Corps aviation as a helicopter pilot and had been flying the Sirkorsky Sky Crane for Shaheen aviation.

The sky was lit at uneven intervals by waste-gas fires, and the air was foul with the stink of petroleum distillates: aviation kerosene, gasoline, diesel fuel, benzine, nitrogen tetroxide for intercontinental missiles, lubricating oils of various grades, and complex petrochemicals identified only by their alphanumeric prefixes.

There were four carts loaded with missiles and aviation ordnance men standing by, just waiting to download the antiair missiles Tombstone had flown in with.