parachutist
parachutist
Definition
para·chut·ist (-s̸ho̵̅o̅t′ist)
noun
a person who descends by parachute
parachutist
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- become: He was the first Derby soldier to become a parachutist ( No.
- see: On one occasion we stopped for a very long time and while gawking out of the window we saw a parachutist coming down.
- carry: Watch as the helicopter lands in the main arena and carries the parachutists to a heigh of 5,000 feet.
- report: The telephone rings; parachutists reported above the open country east of La Madeleine.
- include: Examples include a parachutist; Gateshead's Millenium Bridge, a fairground and a windsurfer.
- watch: Drivers were slowing down to watch parachutists jumping off a hill and coasting along on the rising air.
Adjective modifier
- German: There are no signposts for these have been removed with the intention of confusing German parachutists fallen from out of the sky.
- British: British parachutists are high-class sportsmen and women at the peak of their chosen sport.
- qualified: Once over the English coastline, they would make a tandem parachute jump with a qualified parachutist.
- other: The other local parachutists were Dawn Allatt, Jackie Graham, Mark Jenks and Andy Vaudrey.
- free-fall: PETER HEARN ( 1945-51 ) has written another novel " From the High Skies " drawing on his experience as a free-fall parachutist.
- dummy: The RAF also dropped dummy parachutists and firework devices in a dummy airborne landing at Yvetot, some 30 miles North of Le Havre.
Noun used with modifier
- freefall: Only way you can jump from such an altitude without spending thousands of pounds becoming a freefall parachutist.
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