airplane has definitions from the field of transportation
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[ noun ] (transportation) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets

Synonyms

plane aeroplane

Examples

"the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"

Used in print

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

The same delivery vehicles - whether they be airplanes , submarines or guided_missiles - should be usable .

(Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash , and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury .

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

Soaring to stardom along with him , Margo_Felicity_Brighetti , a luscious and curvaceously beguiling Italian starlet , turns_in a creditable performance as an airplane mechanic .

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