aerodyne

noun

Definition of aerodynenext
as in aircraft

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  1. aircraft
  2. airframe
  3. airship
  4. airplane
  5. ship
  6. plane
  7. helicopter
  8. tractor
Noun
  • Governments around the world have trained eagles to attack unmanned aircraft.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
  • No information about the aircraft is listed on the website except for its model type, a Pilatus PC-12 NG, which is an aircraft commonly used as an air ambulance.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of aircraft
Noun
  • As for the 787s that had already been delivered previously with these out-of-conformance gaps and are today flying around the world — about 980 jets — Boeing studied whether there is a long-term risk that their airframes could age more quickly and potentially fail.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
  • List price for a new airframe is around $78 million.
    Doug Gollan, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of airframe
Noun
  • Santa runs a high-tech metropolis with elves, airships and special-mission forces: Delivering presents is a huge operation done with military precision so there can’t be any shenanigans.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
  • There was a group of sea scouts who were holding onto an airship, and a gust of wind blew the ship into the air and pulled them hundreds of feet with it.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of airship
Noun
  • Additional photos showed the airplane staff carrying her family from the plane over the water and onto dry sand.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The noise and rumble of the airplane can upset them.
    Scott Simon, NPR, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of airplane
Noun
  • With just 54 cabins and suites in a space that would typically see 200, the new vessel will be primarily sold for full ship charters.
    Doug Gollan, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • There, Lucius and his fellow gladiators must mount a full-scale attack on a warring ship for the entertainment of thousands of Romans watching, including its unhinged sibling emperors, Geta and Caracalla (Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger).
    Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of ship
Noun
  • One of the attacks allegedly occurred on a private plane from New York to Florida, another at a Miami nightclub.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Decision Rights Just like only one person can be flying a plane at a time.
    George Bradt, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of plane
Noun
  • Rotorcraft like helicopters have the advantage of vertical takeoffs and landings in rough country but haven't much in the way of speed.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The Texas Parks and Wildlife shared a video on social media of a group of endangered desert bighorn sheep being airlifted safely across the sky by a helicopter to relocate them in an effort to help bolster their population.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of helicopter
Noun
  • What’s shocking is the vulnerability that the actor shows you as he gets pulled into a relationship destined to destroy him as if guided by a tractor beam.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
  • But their happy homecoming was tempered by the town’s shocking appearance: businesses boarded up, cars and tractors stripped of parts, houses burned to the ground.
    Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of tractor
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