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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

  • jet: The worlds first jet airliner, the Comet, made its maiden flight in Britain.
  • passenger: The flagship of the British Airways fleet, Concorde was the world's only supersonic passenger airliner.

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