Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small or rudimentary wing.
- n. A short, almost vertical stabilizing fin projecting from the tip of an aircraft wing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A little wing. Specifically
- n. The pterygium, a lateral expansion on each side of the end of the rostrum, found in many weevils.
Wiktionary
- n. aeronautics A winglike structure at a wingtip set at an angle to the plane of the wing designed to reduce drag by its effect on wingtip vortices.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A little wing; a very small wing.
- n. (Zoöl.) A bastard wing, or alula.
Etymologies
- wing + -let (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In addition to new methods of providing service, Cessna is also expanding the types of support available through the company's Citation Service Network to include structural enhancements such as winglet installation for the Citation X and glass cockpit upgrades for a variety of early edition Citations.”
“E.g. I don't mind KC-135, since if you look at the info, it's not actually the KC-135 (a military tanker) that you're voting on, but rather the successful NASA winglet technology mission.”
“Sharkey looked out the window, the sky was clear; the rainforest stretched out as far as the horizon, but there was a jagged edge at the end of the wing, where the five-foot-tall winglet was supposed to be.”
“I don't wet the bed at night after reading stories about a new commercial aviation winglet development, airport scanner, or A380 toilet tender announcement.”
“The left winglet had torn away, leaving a jagged stump, the left wing had bent upward, and along its upper surface some of the skin was separating from the internal structure.”
“A passenger came to the cockpit and said, “You know we lost a winglet?””
“To me they had the worth of the winglet of the gnat”
“KRIS VAN CLEAVE, WJLA REPORTER: This is not what you want to see looking out the window of your already-delayed flight to Dallas, the winglet of your regional jet stuck under the wing of a much larger Airbus 319.”
“Whatever fraction of a wing you have, there is a fall from which it will save your life where a slightly smaller winglet would not.”
“Each wing ended in an upright, inward-canted winglet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘winglet’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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Letterrorists
A bunch of -let words, emphasis on the diminutive. Feel free to neologize.
booklet, flatlet, haslet, nutlet, platelet, streamlet, varlet, aglet, gablet, leaflet, piglet, ringlet and 504 more...
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A taste for small things
Diminutives
screamlet, pip, purrlet, mannikin, nipperkin, munchkin, dodkin, elfkin, bootikin, dudeen, boreen, jackeen and 40 more...
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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"Let's go strap on the ole air'chine ...
Aviation, especially aerobatic aviation, has been quite aptly described as the "most fun you can have with your clothes on". There are a ton of colorful and cryptolexical words that have evolved i...
magenta line, true virgins make..., black box, autopilot, spoilers, east is least and..., dead reckoning, whiz wheel, radome, squawk ident, iff-sif, fire handle and 66 more...
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Words that make me smile :)
plushy, winglet, sulk, tummy, starboard, luster, inundation, meditation
Tweets
Looking for tweets for winglet.
oroboros The wing-tip device makes the wing more efficient by inhibiting the natural flow of air from the high pressure area below the wing to the low pressure area above the wing. This high-to-low flow is what generates the dangerous wing-tip vortex which can upset aircraft in the wake of the generating aircraft. Oct 18, 2012