Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A machine or device, such as an airplane, helicopter, glider, or dirigible, that is capable of atmospheric flight.
Wiktionary
- n. A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.
- n. Plural form of aircraft.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Any vehicle, such as an airplane, helicopter, balloon, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a vehicle that can fly
Etymologies
- From air + craft. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Maybe it was the word aircraft that made people suspicious.”
“The Egyptian front would have had amongst it some 1600 Soviet technicians to man the new types of tanks, rocket-firing apparatus and certain aircraft, while Syria was to have aircraft from the Soviet Union flown in at high altitudes for that short campaign.”
“We are also moving quite aggressively into the area of low cost ISR Programs, which we term aircraft missionization.”
“Even so, China's military rival Taiwan is featuring what it calls an "aircraft carrier killer" weapon at an arms fair that opened in Taipei Thursday.”
Voice of America: Chinese Media Minimizes Military Value of Aircraft Carrier
“Somewhere ahead of the aircraft is a soldier who minutes earlier stepped on an improvised explosive device, the signature weapon of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“Taiwan responded to China's aircraft carrier trials by exhibiting a supersonic missile, which it called the "aircraft carrier killer.”
Voice of America: China's First Aircraft Carrier Completes Initial Sea Trials
“This aircraft is also equipped with a spear, which is very forbidden by the Geneva War Crimes Handbook.”
“The next day aircraft from the USS Hornet strafed and bombed the ship but did not sink it.”
“Albert met the love of his life in Tulsa in 1944, while flying aircraft from the Douglas plant to the West coast.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aircraft’.
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Up In The Air @ Wordnik
List of words, terms, and phrases pertaining to or referencing anything that lives, traverses, moves in, uses, or otherwise occupies the space above the ground we walk on. Words and phrases contain...
aeroallergen, aerial, aerial mapping, aerial root, aerobe, aerobiology, aerobioscope, aelophilous, anemotropism, anemoclastic, anafront, antitrades and 273 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (concrete)
foodstuff, banknote, crankshaft, earphone, fibreboard, fishplate, forklift, glassware, guardrail, handicraft, headband, kitchenware and 181 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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TECH - metals and alloys
embrittle, braze, nickel alloy, metallize, Inconel, eutectic, metalize, vapor pressure, corrosion-resistant, alloy, stainless steel, neutron flux and 262 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
TRAN - air traffic control
data link communi..., ADS-C agreement, AIRMET information, obstacle, problematic use o..., change-over point, ATS route, transition altitude, transition level, automatic depende..., automatic termina..., unidentified airc... and 119 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - international relations
ABM Agreement, accession to a co..., accession to a tr..., accession to an a..., achievement of peace, ACP-EC Convention, advanced technolo..., aerospace industry, African organisation, aggression, agreement, agricultural coop... and 851 more...
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strange plurals
words with unusual plurals - singular form being the plural form, obsolete formations without 's', etc.
shoon, crocket, crotchet, quare, aëtheogamous, binoculars, antelope, luggage, police, furniture, aircraft, macaroni and 32 more...
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TRAN - air travel
Functional Airspa..., European Organisa..., EUROCONTROL, Single European Sky, SESAR, Single European S..., Future ATFM Profi..., aircraft hangar, aircraft speed, aircraft stall, aircraft stalls, airline analyst and 35 more...
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transportation
change, car, vehicle, cart, baggage, waiting room, ticket, bicycle, life jacket, railway, shared taxi, ferry and 27 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
abaculus, abacus, abaft, abarticular, abbreviate, abeyance, abiding, anthocyanin, antemeridian, arcane, adjure, adduce and 418 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Rocketeer's Words
defenestrate, shutterbug, antique, periscope, dogma, peculiar, eccentric, banana, apple, pear, cherry, photograph and 189 more...
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Now Boarding
airline, plane, aircraft, passenger, ticket, boarding pass, reservation, pilot, steward, stewardess, flight attendant, air hostess and 38 more...
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TT3 Lesson 35
aircraft, aboard, female, not at all, complex, male, would rather, could do with, chilly, suit yourself, smuggle, joke and 38 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for aircraft.
fbharjo aircrafts would be a strange, ethereal artform May 29, 2011