different between manoeuvre vs lomcevak

English

Etymology

From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English hand?eweorc, German Handwerk.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??nu?v?/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /m??nu?v?/
• Rhymes: -u?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: ma?noeu?vre

Noun

manoeuvre (plural manoeuvres)

1. Britain, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.

Verb

manoeuvre (third-person singular simple present manoeuvres, present participle manoeuvring, simple past and past participle manoeuvred)

1. (transitive) Britain, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.

Derived terms

• manoeuvrable

See also

• overtaking

Anagrams

• manoeuver, manœuver

English

Etymology

Derived from a Czech word which roughly means "headache" or "hangover", the expression "lomcovák" (sometimes spelled incorrectly by non-Czech speakers as "lomcevak") originated from the Moravia region, now in eastern part of Czech Republic, famous for its Jelinek slivovitz, a traditional Czechoslovakian alcoholic drink, and is commonly used to describe the rotating motions of one who has had one too many. The English use originates from Czechoslovakian aerobatic pilot Ladislav Bezák's mechanic, who at a 1958 air show in Brno, Czechoslovakia, jokingly called Bezák's tumble maneuvres "lomcováks" when asked by journalists what they were.

Noun

lomcevak (plural lomcevaks)

1. (aviation) An aerobatic flying maneuvre in which the pilot follows a knife-edge roll by flipping the airplane end-over-end and into a spin, from which the pilot then recovers control of the airplane.
   • 2004, Thomas Fleming, Conquerors of the Sky, p. 462:

     The pilot ended his performance with the most dangerous stunt in the aerobatic book, a lomcovak.