| 单词 | airplane |
| 释义 | airplane (once / 983 pages) n An airplane is a flying vehicle that has fixed wings and engines or propellers that thrust it forward through the air. It's most common when you travel long distances to take an airplane. An airplane is the form of transportation you'll probably choose when you need to go from New York to California — it's the fastest and safest way to get there. Commercial airplanes are flown by a pilot and staffed by a crew. In Britain, it's still called an aeroplane, from the Greek aero-, "air," and French planer, "to soar," by way of the French aéroplane. WORD FAMILYairplane: airplanes USAGE EXAMPLESTwo Seattle plants produce more than 1.4 million airplane parts every year. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Fisher, the writer, mental health advocate and actress of Star Wars fame passed away after suffering cardiac arrest on an airplane last week. Time(Dec 31, 2016) Fisher died Tuesday after being stricken on an airplane flight last week. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) n an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper aeroplane, plane B-52 United States military aircraft; B- stands for bomber airliner a commercial airplane that carries passengers amphibian, amphibious aircraftan airplane designed to take off and land on water biplaneold fashioned airplane; has two wings one above the other bombera military aircraft that drops bombs during flight delta wingan airplane with wings that give it the appearance of an isosceles triangle attack aircraft, fighter, fighter aircrafta high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air hangar queenan airplane with a bad maintenance record jet, jet plane, jet-propelled planean airplane powered by one or more jet engines monoplanean airplane with a single wing multiengine airplane, multiengine planea plane with two or more engines propeller planean airplane that is driven by a propeller reconnaissance planea military airplane used to gain information about an enemy hydroplane, seaplanean airplane that can land on or take off from water ski-planean airplane equipped with skis so it can land on a snowfield tanker planean airplane constructed to transport chemicals that can be dropped in order to fight a forest fire airbusa subsonic jet airliner operated over short distances dive bombera bomber that releases its bombs during a steep dive toward the target double-prop, double-propeller plane, twin-prop, twin-propeller-planea propeller plane with an engine that drives two propellers in opposite directions (for stability) fan-jet, fanjet, turbofan, turbojetan airplane propelled by a fanjet engine floatplane, pontoon planea seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water flying boata large seaplane that floats with its fuselage in the water rather than on pontoons interceptora fast maneuverable fighter plane designed to intercept enemy aircraft jetlinera large jet plane that carries passengers jumbo jet, jumbojeta very large jet plane kamikazea fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II narrow-body, narrow-body aircraft, narrowbody aircrafta commercial airliner with a single aisle propjet, turbo-propeller plane, turbopropan airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine single prop, single-propeller planea propeller plane with a single propeller 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 twinjeta jet plane propelled by two jet engines twin-aisle airplane, wide-body, wide-body aircraft, widebody aircrafta commercial airliner with two aisles heavier-than-air craft a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it |
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