| airlift | | |
| n. (act) | 1. airlift, lift | transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable). |
| ~ transfer, transferral, transportation, conveyance, transport | the act of moving something from one location to another. |
| ~ berlin airlift | airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. |
| v. (contact) | 2. airlift, lift | fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means.; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" |
| ~ fly | transport by aeroplane.; "We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America" |
| airplane | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. aeroplane, airplane, plane | an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets.; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" |
| ~ circumnavigation | traveling around something (by ship or plane).; "Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe" |
| ~ accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, throttle, gas, gun | a pedal that controls the throttle valve.; "he stepped on the gas" |
| ~ airliner | a commercial airplane that carries passengers. |
| ~ amphibious aircraft, amphibian | an airplane designed to take off and land on water. |
| ~ biplane | old fashioned airplane; has two wings one above the other. |
| ~ bomber | a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight. |
| ~ defroster, deicer | heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane). |
| ~ delta wing | an airplane with wings that give it the appearance of an isosceles triangle. |
| ~ escape hatch | hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency. |
| ~ attack aircraft, fighter aircraft, fighter | a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air. |
| ~ fuselage | the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo). |
| ~ hangar queen | an airplane with a bad maintenance record. |
| ~ heavier-than-air craft | a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it. |
| ~ cowl, cowling, bonnet, hood | protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine.; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine" |
| ~ dip circle, inclinometer | a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane). |
| ~ jet, jet-propelled plane, jet plane | an airplane powered by one or more jet engines. |
| ~ landing gear | an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground. |
| ~ monoplane | an airplane with a single wing. |
| ~ multiengine airplane, multiengine plane | a plane with two or more engines. |
| ~ navigation light | light on an airplane that indicates the plane's position and orientation; red light on the left (port) wing tip and green light on the right (starboard) wing tip. |
| ~ fuel pod, pod | a detachable container of fuel on an airplane. |
| ~ propeller plane | an airplane that is driven by a propeller. |
| ~ radar dome, radome | a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves. |
| ~ reconnaissance plane | a military airplane used to gain information about an enemy. |
| ~ roll-on roll-off | a method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination. |
| ~ hydroplane, seaplane | an airplane that can land on or take off from water.; "the designer of marine aircraft demonstrated his newest hydroplane" |
| ~ ski-plane | an airplane equipped with skis so it can land on a snowfield. |
| ~ tanker plane | an airplane constructed to transport chemicals that can be dropped in order to fight a forest fire. |
| ~ windscreen, windshield | transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle. |
| ~ wing | one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane. |
| ~ log | a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane). |
| ~ seat, place | a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).; "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" |
| ~ highjacker, hijacker | someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination. |
| ~ passenger, rider | a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it. |
| ~ drift | the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane). |
| ~ leeway | (of a ship or plane) sideways drift. |
| ~ atomic number 22, ti, titanium | a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite. |
| ~ prang | crash. |
| ~ hunt | yaw back and forth about a flight path.; "the plane's nose yawed" |
| ~ astern | (of a ship or an airplane) behind.; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide" |
| plane | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. plane, sheet | (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape.; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane" |
| ~ shape, form | the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance.; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ cartesian plane | a plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates. |
| ~ facet plane | the plane of a facet of an object (as of a cube). |
| ~ midline, midplane | the median plane of the body (or some part of the body). |
| ~ orbital plane | (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting. |
| ~ picture plane | the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work. |
| ~ tangent plane | the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface. |
| n. (state) | 2. plane | a level of existence or development.; "he lived on a worldly plane" |
| ~ degree, stage, level, point | a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process.; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. plane, planer, planing machine | a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood. |
| ~ power tool | a tool driven by a motor. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. carpenter's plane, plane, woodworking plane | a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood.; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work" |
| ~ beading plane | a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork. |
| ~ block plane | a small plane used on end grains of wood. |
| ~ bullnose, bullnosed plane | a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front. |
| ~ chamfer plane | a plane that makes a beveled edge. |
| ~ circular plane, compass plane | a plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces. |
| ~ combination plane | a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes. |
| ~ dovetail plane | a woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints. |
| ~ edge tool | any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge). |
| ~ fore plane | a carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane. |
| ~ hand tool | a tool used with workers' hands. |
| ~ jack plane | a carpenter's plane for rough finishing. |
| ~ jointer, jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane | a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together. |
| ~ match plane, tonguing and grooving plane | a plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards. |
| ~ openside plane, rabbet plane | a woodworking plane designed to cut rabbets. |
| ~ router plane | a woodworking plane with a narrow cutting head that will make grooves with smooth bottoms. |
| ~ scrub plane | a narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock. |
| ~ smooth plane, smoothing plane | a small plane for finish work. |
| ~ spokeshave | a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes). |
| v. (contact) | 5. plane, shave | cut or remove with or as if with a plane.; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (motion) | 6. plane, skim | travel on the surface of water. |
| ~ glide | move smoothly and effortlessly. |
| ~ aquaplane | ride on an aquaplane. |
| ~ aquaplane | rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road.; "the car aquaplaned" |
| v. (contact) | 7. plane | make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane.; "plane the top of the door" |
| ~ smooth, smoothen | make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing.; "smooth the surface of the wood" |
| adj. | 8. flat, level, plane | having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another.; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams" |
| ~ even | being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with).; "an even application of varnish"; "an even floor"; "the road was not very even"; "the picture is even with the window" |
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