different between glider vs helicopter

English

Etymology

From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: gl?'d?(r), IPA^(key): /??la?d?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??la?d?/
• Rhymes: -a?d?(r)

Noun

glider (plural gliders)

1. One who glides.
2. Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
3. A pilot of glider aircraft.
4. Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the gliding possum.
5. Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”)
6. A kind of garden swing.
   • 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices (2003), page 73

     Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away. The chain squeaked a little, almost like a cricket.

   • 2011, Mary Biever, He Uses It For Good!, page 5

     Then I went into the backyard, which had a flower-covered arbor, a small garden wall, and room behind it for a garden. Swings and gliders adorned the yard.

7. (mathematics) In the Game of Life cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.

   Hypernym: spaceship

   • 2008, Derek Abbott, Paul C. W. Davies, Arun Kumar Pati, Quantum Aspects Of Life (page 246)

     In Conway's Life interesting effects can be obtained by colliding gliders.

8. A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
9. (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.

Hyponyms

• hang glider, motor glider, paraglider, sailplane

Derived terms

• glider gun
• sugar glider

Translations

Further reading

• glider on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gilder, gilder, girdle, girled, gridle, regild, ridgel

Swedish

Verb

glider

1. present tense of glida.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French hélicoptère, from Ancient Greek ???? (hélix, “spiral”) + ?????? (pterón, “wing”). Doublet of helicopteron.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?heli?k?pt?(?)/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?l.i?k?p.t?(?)/, /?h?l.??k?p.t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?l??k?pt?/

Noun

helicopter (plural helicopters)

1. An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail that stabilize the aircraft.

   We flew over the city in a helicopter.

2. A powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
3. The winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple.
4. (slang) A dragonfly.
5. A whirling trick performed with devil sticks.

Synonyms

• (aircraft): chopper (informal), copter (informal), eggbeater (slang), helo (military, slang), rotary-wing aircraft (technical), whirlybird (slang)
• (trowelling device): power trowel, trowel machine
• (winged fruit): samara, whirlybird

Derived terms

• helicopter drop
• helicopter money
• helicopter parent

Translations

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: helikopter

Verb

helicopter (third-person singular simple present helicopters, present participle helicoptering, simple past and past participle helicoptered)

1. (transitive) To transport by helicopter.
2. (intransitive) To travel by helicopter.
3. To rotate like a helicopter blade.

   helicoptering his jacket, helicoptering his arms

4. To overprotect one's children, as a helicopter parent does.

Translations

Romanian

Noun

helicopter n (plural helicoptere)

1. Alternative form of elicopter