aeroplane

plural aeroplanes · alternative dated aëroplane · alternative Canada Philippines US airplane · alternative dated hypercorrect nonstandard æroplane

1. CommonwealthaeronauticsSynonym of airplane. A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.

   Schicklgruber's aeroplanes we smash right to the ground.

   1944 May 20, Russian Rhapsody, spoken by the gremlins from the Kremlin

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   Piccard and Borschberg initially considered a zeppelin-like solar-powered airship but realised it would be just as difficult to make as an aeroplane and would be less quick through the air.

   2013 September 6, Tom Cheshire, “Solar-powered travel”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2023, page 34

   Synonyms: airplane

2. CommonwealthSynonym of airplane. A game played when spoon-feeding children.

   Synonyms: airplane

3. archaicobsoleteaeronauticsSynonym of airfoil. An aerodynamic surface.

   Synonyms: airfoil

4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called planes.

present singular third person aeroplanes · participle present aeroplaning · participle past aeroplaned · past aeroplaned · alternative dated aëroplane · alternative Canada Philippines US airplane · alternative dated hypercorrect nonstandard æroplane

1. intransitiveTo fly in an aeroplane.
2. transitiveTo transport by aeroplane.

   The rod was discarded, and then, hand over hand, the prize of them all was aeroplaned to the top of the cliff.

   1919, The American Angler, volume 4, page 221