Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To operate an aircraft; fly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb fly an airplane.
- intransitive verb colloq. To fly, or navigate the air, in an aëroplane or heavier-than-air flying machine.
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- verb To operate an
aircraft .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb operate an airplane
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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WILEY: The rule is that you aviate, navigate and then you communicate.
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They know that the pilots must adhere to the adage “aviate–navigate–communicate”—strictly in that order.
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They know that the pilots must adhere to the adage “aviate–navigate–communicate”—strictly in that order.
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If, in fact, he was alone in that airplane, and he was concentrating on trying to fix whatever was wrong, he might have had his head buried in his instruments, doing whatever needed to be done to try to take care of that problem, and might have forgotten the cardinal rule of flying, that, when you're in trouble, first thing you do is aviate the airplane.
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So what that really means though, even though they're being trained, the culture of the department and the old guard within the department still allow for that level of treatment and misconduct, and basically aviate whatever effect that the diversity training has.
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Bannister with his Billion-Dollar Mystery, yet equally unwilling to aviate from a blanket heaved by the husky athletes.
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"Can you aviate – high-dive – drive a car – buck-jump – shoot?" read Miss Moss.
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I got in an excellent drive, but unfortunately it didn't aviate quick enough.
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"Now don't begin to aviate until you understand the truth," Speed continued.
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If she had resented Kennedy, she positively flew up in the air and commenced to aviate at Maloney's questioning.
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