| 单词 | gliding contest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgliding contest C1. General attributive (sense 2), as gliding angle, gliding contest, gliding distance, gliding flight, gliding school. ΚΠ 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 103/1 Reducing gliding flight to regular practice. 1904 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 46 245 Mr. Wilbur Wright found that if the hollowness [of the plane] was seriously increased, the centre of effort, instead of continuing to move forward as the gliding angle was diminished, actually moved backwards again. 1910 Daily Chron. 12 Mar. 3/3 To establish a gliding school at Hockley, in Essex. 1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 43 Can I see a good landing-ground within gliding distance? 1922 Daily Mail (Continental ed.) 19 Oct. The third day of the gliding contest at Itford Hill, near Lewes, Sussex. 1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 8 Gliding angle, the angle between the flight path in a glide and the horizontal. < as lemmas |
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