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airway

(eəʳweɪ)
Word forms: plural airways
1. countable noun
A person's airways are the passages from their nose and mouth down to their lungs, through which airenters and leaves their body.
...an inflammation of the airways.
2. plural noun
The airways are all the routes that planes can travel along.
How does a private pilot get access to the airways?
3. plural noun
Airways means the same as airwaves.
The interview went out over the airways.

airway in British English

(ˈɛəˌweɪ)
noun
1. 
an air route, esp one that is fully equipped with emergency landing fields, navigational aids, etc
2. 
a passage for ventilation, esp in a mine
3. 
a passage down which air travels from the nose or mouth to the lungs
4.  medicine
a tubelike device inserted via the throat to keep open the airway of an unconscious patient

airway in American English

(ˈɛrˌweɪ)
noun
1. 
air shaft (sense 1)
2. 
a specific route for air traffic, provided with navigational aids; air lane
3.  [pl.]
airwaves
4.  Medicine
a. 
a respiratory passageway
b. 
a device used to bring air to the lungs during anesthesia

Examples of 'airway' in a sentence
airway

The standard treatment is to sleep attached to a continuous positive airways pressure machine.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Those poor women who wake up to find their airways blocked!
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The silicone solution blocks their airways and they die or explode.
The Sun (2008)
The device forces air into his lungs and keeps his airways clear.
The Sun (2008)
She is fed by a tube and her parents have to keep her airways clean.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It relaxes your muscles, including those that keep your airways open.
The Sun (2014)
The popular bracelets could be inhaled and block airways, say medics.
The Sun (2014)
But mucus thickens as cold air hits the upper airways, making it more difficult to expel the virus.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He explains that in the short term, the concern is irritation and inflammation of the airways caused by atmospheric pollution.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It opens the airways wonderfully.
Turner, Roger Newman The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide (1988)
In the warm-up he put cotton wool up his nostrils, to open his airways.
The Sun (2013)
 Keep her airways clear.
The Sun (2009)

In other languages
airway

British English: airway NOUN
A person's airways are the passages from their nose and mouth down to their lungs.
...an inflammation of the airways.
  • American English: airway
  • Brazilian Portuguese: vias respiratórias
  • Chinese: 呼吸道
  • European Spanish: vía respiratoria
  • French: voie respiratoires
  • German: Luftweg
  • Italian: vie respiratorie
  • Japanese: 気道
  • Korean: 기도
  • European Portuguese: vias respiratórias
  • Latin American Spanish: vía respiratoria
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