Definitions
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- noun aviation a
turboprop engine - noun aviation an
airplane powered by turboprop engines
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine
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Examples
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As they climbed out of the car, Hinano called out a greeting to a pilot standing at the foot of the stairs to a Cessna propjet.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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As they climbed out of the car, Hinano called out a greeting to a pilot standing at the foot of the stairs to a Cessna propjet.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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As they climbed out of the car, Hinano called out a greeting to a pilot standing at the foot of the stairs to a Cessna propjet.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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And our little four-engine propjet took off into the darkness.
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And our little four-engine propjet took off into the darkness.
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An expensive new joint project with Argentina to build a pressurized propjet became a white elephant when not a single plane was sold.
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It had been on patrol only five hours before, and its flight crew was still trying to shake off the sleep as they rotated the propjet aircraft off the concrete.
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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They are now convinced that the pure jet transport can not only be favourably compared with the latest conventional reciprocating and propjet types, but actually make them look almost obsolete.
The Aircraft Industry in Canada and the Future Development of Jet Engines 1948
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The propjet passed over Naval Station Norfolk when pilot Fred Bashara briefly lost focus.
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