different between zep vs airship

English

Etymology

Shortened from zeppelin.

Noun

zep (plural zeps)

1. (US, dialectal) A certain type of submarine sandwich

Anagrams

• Pez

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali, ultimately from Arabic.

Noun

zep

1. pocket

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?sep/, /d?zep/

Noun

zep (nominative plural zeps)

1. permission, agreement, approval

English

Etymology

air +? ship; jocular British sense is in imitation of worship "form of address for magistrates et al., possibly also an oblique reference to Colonel Blimp.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: heirship

Noun

airship (plural airships)

1. A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.

   Airships are posited to be cheaper to operate over time than fixed-wing aircraft, but as there are no large fleets, this is hard to prove in practice.

2. (informal) Any aircraft.

   On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.

3. (Britain, derogatory) The highest ranking officials of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.
   • .

Translations

Verb

airship (third-person singular simple present airships, present participle airshipping, simple past and past participle airshipped)

1. To transport goods by aircraft.

See also

• balloon
• barrage balloon
• blimp
• Colonel Blimp
• dirigible
• zeppelin, Zeppelin