airplane

Substantiv

1. 1

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

   on an airplane

   jet airplane

   RC airplane

2. 2

   A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor. One that can carry a person or persons.

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

3. 3

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

   toy airplane

   paper airplane

4. 4

   A 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

   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.

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

Verb

1. 1

   To fly in an aeroplane.

2. 2

   To transport by aeroplane.

Formen

Plural

airplanes

Präteritum

airplaned

Partizip II

airplaned

Partizip I

airplaning

3. Person Singular

airplanes