Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various winged vehicles capable of flight, generally heavier than air and driven by jet engines or propellers.
Wiktionary
- n. US A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a heavier-than-air aircraft. Same as
aeroplane{2} .
WordNet 3.0
- n. an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
Etymologies
- air + plane, alteration of aeroplane (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The mishap with the airplane is a vehicle to explore how the media reacted and reported on it.”
“Over the past four decades, more than 320 fatigue-related incidents have taken nearly 750 lives in airplane crashes alone, according to an analysis by News21, a national university student reporting project, and the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization.”
The Washington Post: Transportation safety: Efforts to curb fatigue-related accidents often languish
“Lithium-ion battery fires can reach 1,100 degrees, close to the melting point of aluminum, a key material in airplane construction.”
The Huffington Post: Battery Safety Fight: Pilots Take On Big Business After Deadly Crash
“A jump in airplane orders pushed demand for durable goods higher last month, but orders for many other items slipped, offering further evidence that U.S. manufacturing is slowing.”
The Wall Street Journal: Aircraft Push Up Durable-Goods Orders
“Its largest passenger airplane is built in Europe.”
“Yet the fuel-efficient, long-range airplane is facing tough tests before it's allowed for commercial use.”
The Huffington Post: Boeing Conducts Extensive Tests On New 787 Dreamliner (VIDEO)
“Yet the fuel-efficient, long-range airplane is facing tough tests before it”
The Huffington Post: Boeing Conducts Extensive Tests On New 787 Dreamliner (VIDEO)
“The airplane is as easy to fly today as it was back then, maybe actually easier, because now it has aerodynamic features that make it more forgiving from the standpoint of taking off and landing.”
“That is, while ~300 people or so die each year in airplane accidents, and there's only been 1 confirmed death due to asteroid to date (early in the 20th century), over a longer period of time (say in the ~2 century range) more people will die due to asteroid impact than all airplane casualties to date.”
Today's Video - Profiling the Ares Launch Vehicle - NASA Watch
“But recent studies, including a report in August by the National Research Council's Transportation Research Board, make a case that, in general, an airplane is no more a health threat to occupants than any other enclosed environment, like a theater or subway.”
The Huffington Post: Air Inside Airplanes Is Not As Risky As Previously Thought, Study Finds
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘airplane’.
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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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Americanism
American words
finest, fast food, acclimate, aluminum, alphabetize, airplane, affirmative action, arugula, backhoe, bangs, base board, bayou and 162 more...
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
walking, bicycle, bus, train, motorcycle, airplane, car, truck, segway, limousine, roller coaster, wheelbarrow and 130 more...
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Things with wings
For fanciful birds, see reesetee's •Open List: Flights of Fancy.
For chickens, see Chickens.
For birds endemic to the United States and/or North America, see reesetee's Mo...airplane, dragonfly, pegasus, butterfly, Buffalo, robot bomb, periodical cicada, caduceus, angel, those flying monk..., cherub, housefly and 52 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 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 Dogs' Words
treat, potty, outside, mommie, mommielina, mommierenee, kisses, yes, no, love, sit, down and 186 more...
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Addenda to the 1923 Printing of Webst...
Many of these words first came into common usage during World War I, and reflect not only the technological and scientific leaps of the early part of the 20th century, but the new experience of glo...
abri, ace, acidosis, airdrome, air fleet, airplane, air raid, airworthy, altimeter, anaphylaxis, anociassociation, anti-aircraft and 292 more...
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words my 19-month-old daughter says
We'll skip people's names.
basketball, light, railroad, mommy, daddy, up, hand, gate, walk, kitty, doggie, cat and 145 more...
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hideout
places to hide
bunker, cave, safe house, shelter, attic, tunnel, closet, refrigerator, basement, tree, trunk, chamber and 47 more...
Tweets
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