Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An auxiliary structure or the external surface of a vehicle, such as an aircraft, that serves to reduce drag.
- n. Chiefly British A gift, especially one bought or given at a fair.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A present bought or given at a fair, or brought from a fair.
- n. Ironically, something unpleasant bestowed as a gift.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of fair.
- n. A structure on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag
- n. A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. (Uncommon)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair.
Examples
“Encapsulating a payload in a fairing is easy and cleaner.”
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“The side fairing is wonderfully asymmetrical, but how will they assimilate lighting into the front for the street version?”
“The fairing is a clamshell structure that encapsulates the satellite as it travels through the atmosphere.”
“Tell the bearer not to forget to bring me a fairing, which is some ginger-bread, sweetmeat, hunting-nuts, and a pocket-book.”
“That whole package will then be placed inside a protective shell called a fairing and eventually stacked atop the Atlas 5 rocket.”
“The rocket's "fairing" - an aerodynamic cone that's designed to separate during the trip into space - didn't come off as planned.”
“Anyway, the next big piece of safety equipment is going to be a protective shield, known as a fairing (a. k.a.-motorcycle windshield).”
“The front module (also called the fairing mount) in Buell's S2 model in”
“Unfortunately, due to budgetary constraints, the plan to have a protective cover, called a fairing, for the quike had to be scrapped.”
“On the other hand the "fairing" may just be enough.”
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Lists
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
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minerva But here in the present case, to carry on the volant metaphor (for I must either be merry, or mad), is a pretty little miss just come out of her hanging-sleeve-coat, brought to buy a pretty little fairing; for the world, Jack, is but a great fair, thou knowest; and, to give thee serious reflection for serious, all its joys but tinselled hobby-horses, gilt gingerbread, squeaking trumpets, painted drums, and so forth.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Jan 4, 2008