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airplane
English
Alternative forms
- aeroplane (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, UK), aëroplane
Etymology
air +? plane, alteration of aeroplane
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???ple?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?????ple??n/
Noun
airplane (plural airplanes)
- (US, Canada) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
- 1999, "I Never Met the Dead Man", season 1, episode 2 of Family Guy
- Lois: Come on, Stewie. You know you can't leave the table until you finish your vegetables. […] Sweetie, it's broccoli. It's good for you. Now open up for the airplane.
- 1999, "I Never Met the Dead Man", season 1, episode 2 of Family Guy
Derived terms
- paper airplane
Translations
Verb
airplane (third-person singular simple present airplanes, present participle airplaning, simple past and past participle airplaned)
- (intransitive) To fly in an aeroplane.
- (transitive) To transport by aeroplane.
See also
- aircraft
- glider
- helicopter
Anagrams
- perianal
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leeway
English
Etymology
lee (“side away from the wind”) +? way
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?li??we?]
- Rhymes: -i?we?
Noun
leeway (countable and uncountable, plural leeways)
- The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
- A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.
- Synonyms: freedom, flexibility, latitude, margin, wiggle room, elbowroom
- 2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, ?ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,[1]
- Within an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]
- (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.
Related terms
- lee
- leeward
Translations
References
- “leeway”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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