| 单词 | aircraft |
| 释义 | aircraft (once / 555 pages) n A machine that can fly, held aloft in the air, is called an aircraft. Airplanes and helicopters are two types of aircraft. Some kinds of aircraft, primarily helicopters, use rotors or spinning blades to fly, while the lift of other aircraft comes from jet engines or the shape of the aircraft's wing. Still other aircraft, including hot air balloons, use buoyancy — generally a gas that's lighter than air — for lift and flight. Balloons were actually the first vehicles referred to as aircraft, along with airships. The word was adapted from nautical terminology. WORD FAMILYaircraft: aircrafts, antiaircraft USAGE EXAMPLESThe aircraft was operated by Sunwing Airlines, a low-cost carrier based in Toronto. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The aircraft was part of the Rossiya airline's special flight detachment group - the carrier for the president of Russia and other government officials. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) A drop in aircraft orders accounts for November’s expected decline. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) n a vehicle that can fly Exp|Hypo|Hyper B-52 United States military aircraft; B- stands for bomber Graf Zeppelina large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs bogey, bogie, bogy an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft cruise missilean unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb heavier-than-air crafta non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it lighter-than-air craftaircraft supported by its own buoyancy stealth aircraftan aircraft designed in accordance with technology that makes detection by radar difficult aeroplane, airplane, planean aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets airship, dirigiblea steerable self-propelled aircraft autogiro, autogyro, gyroplanean aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller balloonlarge tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air drone, pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraftan aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control glider, sailplaneaircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces chopper, eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybirdan aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades ornithopter, orthopterheavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings stealth bombera bomber that is difficult to detect by radar stealth fightera fighter that is difficult to detect by radar; is built for precise targeting and uses laser-guided bombs military plane, warplanean aircraft designed and used for combat craft a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space |
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