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Synonyms for aircraft
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : air-kraft, -krahft |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛərˌkræft, -ˌkrɑft |
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Définition of aircraft
Origin :- 1851, originally in reference to airships and balloons, from air (n.1) + craft (n.); a term from boating, as were many early aviation words. Of airplanes from 1907 and since 1930s exclusively of them. Aircraft carrier is attested from 1919 (H.M.S. Hermes, launched September 1919, was the first ship to be built from the hull up as an aircraft carrier).
- noun airplane
- It swept toward the dome and dissociated into a myriad specks which were aircraft.
- Extract from : « Invasion » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
- In these encounters the British lost three aircraft of various types.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) » by Various
- He saw her seem to stiffen upon sight of the other aircraft.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
- Most aircraft duels are settled at distances of less than a hundred yards.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
- We also knew they could deliver the big bomb, presumably by some sort of aircraft.
- Extract from : « Second Landing » by Floyd Wallace
- This is to notify you that the aircraft in question has been inspected and found to be not airworthy.
- Extract from : « By Proxy » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- In a lesser degree this may be said of the enemy's aircraft enterprises.
- Extract from : « 1914 » by John French, Viscount of Ypres
- And we mingled with the pilots of all these many kinds of aircraft.
- Extract from : « High Adventure » by James Norman Hall
- Here, indeed, in the speeds they will attain, lies the future of aircraft.
- Extract from : « Learning to Fly » by Claude Grahame-White
- The candidate must be alone in the aircraft during the tests.
- Extract from : « Learning to Fly » by Claude Grahame-White
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