| 单词 | mother plane |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother plane mother plane n. originally U.S. an aircraft which launches, controls, or tends another aircraft (in quot. 1999 with reference to a spacecraft; cf. mother ship n.2). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > [noun] > an aircraft or spacecraft > from which another is controlled or launched mother ship1890 mother plane1936 1936 Sun (Baltimore) 6 July 9/1 Progress on the pick-a-back airplane, a combination in which a ‘mother’ plane will carry on its back a smaller long range seaplane for ‘launching’ at high altitude is more secret. 1945 Time 19 Nov. 52/2 Everything it sees is projected by radio on a screen in the mother plane. 1977 C. Thomas Firefox (1978) vi. 159 He will not refuel in the air—we would know if some mother-plane were waiting for him over neutral or hostile sky. 1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 June 52/4 A wheel-shaped spaceship..called the Mother Plane..carrying fifteen hundred smaller ships. < as lemmas |
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