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aeroplane Definition

aero·plane (erə plān′)

noun

Brit. airplane

Etymology: Fr aéroplane < aéro-, aero- + base of planer, to soar: see plane

aeroplane Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • hijack: The only reason, it is clear, why no one hijacks aeroplanes out of Heathrow is that no one particularly wants to.
  • fly: Low flying, noisy aeroplanes to the Airport right by the house constant.
  • invent: We human beings just used our brains, And cleverly invented the airplane.
  • crash: A view of a crashed airplane, from behind.
  • build: Join the PFA Are you planning to build an airplane.
  • board: When I board an airplane now I do not know if the female pilot is top notch, or part of a 'quota ' .

Adjective modifier

  • German: A German airplane dropped a bomb on a school in Sussex, England.
  • military: Saturday Hazel and Len put on a free air display with many military aeroplanes flying over on their way to a display.
  • civil: It is odd that incidents involving supposedly civil aeroplanes similar to that which the Miami terrorists provoked years later were among the pretexts included.
  • British: If a British airplane was shot down by the Germans, the underground workers would try to rescue the pilot.

Modifies a noun

  • crash: To mark the airplane crash site there s now a statue containing the names of the men buried in the cemetery or remembered there.
  • wing: The blades are similar in appearance to an airplane wing twisted into a helix.
  • flight: Saving faith depends on God Uncle Oscar was worried about his first airplane flight.
  • factory: On 22 and 23 March all foreigners employed at the airplane factory in Sabadell 1 were imprisoned and removed to Valencia.
  • engine: Our work day started to the sound of airplane engines.

Noun used with modifier

  • microlight: Application form for a noise certificate for a UK registered microlight airplane.
  • jet: The early church had neither e-mail nor jet aeroplanes.
  • enemy: Captain McCudden has at the present time accounted for 54 enemy aeroplanes.
  • paper: I was just making paper aeroplanes in the dressing room.
  • model: She had accompanied him on some of his model airplane trips.