airplane

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

airplanes

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

airplane

past (v2)

airplaned

past participle (v3)

airplaned

present participle

airplaning

3rd person singular

airplanes

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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

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

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

   • He is afraid to fly in an airplane.

3. 3.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.

   • Here comes the airplane! Open wide!
   • Willis wondered what this fellow wanted to do, spoon feed him? Play airplane?
   • 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.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To fly in an aeroplane.

2. 2.To transport by aeroplane.

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