airliner
airliner
Definition
air·liner (-līn′ər)
noun
a large airline-operated aircraft for carrying passengers
airliner
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- hijack: One was the arrival in Baghdad of a hijacked Saudi airliner in October.
- fly: This text assumes that you are flying an average jet airliner.
- build: The Trident was CAAC's first western built short haul jet airliner.
- power: The Comet was the first airliner powered by four turbojet engines.
- use: Using airliners to spray aluminum powder in an effort to avert global warming is also called for in the Welsbach patent.
- see: I found this particularly interesting as we could see an airliner passing over the area of Ipswich where I live.
Adjective modifier
- supersonic: In 2000 Boeing announced a plan for a supersonic airliner - the Sonic Cruiser.
- transatlantic: They stated specifically that they did not want a Transatlantic airliner.
- Cuban: Two other " targets of interest " involved hijacked Cuban airliners.
- civilian: Or about how, in 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing 290 people.
- commercial: The object, which was likened in size to a commercial airliner, slowly rotated above the quiet motorway.
- Russian: A Russian airliner flew to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday, carrying 11 oil experts.
Modifies a noun
- cabin: The dry atmosphere in airliner cabins can cause body dehydration.
- crash: This is the second Chinese airliner crash in a month.
- attack: Then you just disproved yourself: it must have collapsed as a result of the airliner attacks.
- plot: Airliners plot suspects in court Eleven people charged over alleged plot to bomb transatlantic airliners make first appearances in court amid high security.
- type: In 1944 a committee, chaired by Lord Brabazon of Tara, proposed airliner types for post-war production.
- order: More important seems the predicted general slowdown in airliner orders by the carrier companies.
Noun used with modifier
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