Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A machine or device, such as an airplane, helicopter, glider, or dirigible, capable of atmospheric flight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any vehicle, such as an airplane, helicopter, balloon, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A vehicle capable of atmospheric
flight due to interaction with theair , such asbuoyancy orlift . - noun Plural form of
aircraft .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vehicle that can fly
Etymologies
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Examples
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Maybe it was the word aircraft that made people suspicious.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Maybe it was the word aircraft that made people suspicious.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Maybe it was the word aircraft that made people suspicious.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The Egyptian front would have had amongst it some 1600 Soviet technicians to man the new types of tanks, rocket-firing apparatus and certain aircraft, while Syria was to have aircraft from the Soviet Union flown in at high altitudes for that short campaign.
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We are also moving quite aggressively into the area of low cost ISR Programs, which we term aircraft missionization.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
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Somewhere ahead of the aircraft is a soldier who minutes earlier stepped on an improvised explosive device, the signature weapon of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military medics combine ultramodern and time-honored methods to save lives on the battlefield David Brown 2010
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Somewhere ahead of the aircraft is a soldier who minutes earlier stepped on an improvised explosive device, the signature weapon of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military medics combine ultramodern and time-honored methods to save lives on the battlefield David Brown 2010
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Somewhere ahead of the aircraft is a soldier who minutes earlier stepped on an improvised explosive device, the signature weapon of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The front lines of saving lives David Brown 2010
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Even so, China's military rival Taiwan is featuring what it calls an "aircraft carrier killer" weapon at an arms fair that opened in Taipei Thursday.
Chinese Media Minimizes Military Value of Aircraft Carrier 2011
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Even so, China's military rival Taiwan is featuring what it calls an "aircraft carrier killer" weapon at an arms fair that opened in Taipei Thursday.
Chinese Media Minimizes Military Value of Aircraft Carrier 2011
fbharjo commented on the word aircraft
aircrafts would be a strange, ethereal artform
May 29, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word aircraft
Virtual aircraft museum: http://www.aviastar.org/index2.html
August 4, 2015