airplane

plural airplanes · alternative aeroplane · alternative aëroplane · alternative plane

1. CanadaPhilippinesUSA powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.

   RC airplane

   2 more examples

   on an airplane

   jet airplane

   1. CanadaPhilippinesUSusuallyOne that can carry a person or persons.

      They use airplanes to deliver mail and supplies to the far northern villages.

2. Any of various small flyable objects that are notionally comparable to such aircraft but aren't powered.

   toy airplane

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   paper airplane

3. CanadaPhilippinesUSA game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends that a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth; the spoonful itself.

   Near-synonym: choo-choo train

   4 more examples

   Here comes the airplane! Open wide!

   So, he'd take a spoon and he'd start playing airplane, circling the spoon around in the air until it was ready to land in the runway of my mouth.

   1988, Matthew Linn, Sheila Fabricant, Dennis Linn, Healing the Eight Stages of Life, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 66

   Willis wondered what this fellow wanted to do, spoon feed him? Play airplane?

   1997 03, Maria Flook, Open Water, Ecco Press, →ISBN

   For instance, Jan has taken to playing airplane with the spoon to get Charley to attend to the spoon and want to take it into his mouth.

   2013 May 13, Theo L. Dorpat, Michael L. Miller, Clinical Interaction and the Analysis of Meaning: A New Psychoanalytic Theory, Routledge, →ISBN

   Synonyms: choo-choo train

present singular third person airplanes · participle present airplaning · participle past airplaned · past airplaned · alternative aeroplane · alternative aëroplane · alternative plane

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