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单词 flying squadron
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flying squadron
flying squadron n.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > group or unit on operation > [noun] > balloonists
flying squadron1785
balloon corps1859
balloon squadron1880
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > unit of
flight1914
flying corps1914
wing1915
flying squadron1917
group1919
1785 H. Walpole Let. 24 June (1905) XIII. 278 France has conceived hopes of annihilating our Pyrenees by these flying squadrons [sc. balloons].
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings p. xii A record for the casualties of any one flying squadron during any three months since the war began.
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flying squadron
flying squadron n. transferred and figuratively applied to any body of persons organized for rapid movement or action.extracted from flyingadj.
flying squadron
d. Military and Navy. (Sometimes with mixture of sense 5; all the expressions are from French.) Said of a body of troops, or a squadron of ships, designed and organized for rapid movement, as in †flying army, flying brigade, flying column, †flying fleet, flying hospital, flying party, flying squadron. flying artillery: a corps trained to rapid evolutions. flying camp: see camp n.2 2b. flying sap (see quot. 1876). Also flying bridge n.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [adjective] > organized for rapid movement
volant1548
running1592
velitary1600
expedite1609
flying1665
mobile1879
quick-reaction1961
rapid deployment1967
rapid-reaction1968
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 391 With a flying Brigade marching out of Antwerp.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1974) VIII. 88 We do entend to keep but a flying fleet this year.
1667 London Gaz. No. 181/3 The Flying Army that has been so long designed, will be speedily formed.
1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane i. i. 116 He..like a Storm swept with his flying Squadrons all the Plain.
1710 London Gaz. No. 4690/2 A flying Party will encamp in the Neighbourhood.
1809 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) V. 90 The stores belonging to the Flying Artillery.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 624 The flying columns which go out from Aldershot.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 636 For moving columns..flying hospitals are organized.
1876 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Flying sap, a sap formed by placing and filling several gabions at the same time..Also applied to the usual formation of the second parallel in the attack.
in extended use.1872 Daily News 22 Aug. A ‘flying brigade’..has been formed to examine tickets at unexpected stations.
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