(n.) A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.
Example Sentences:
(1) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.
(2) If successful, rockets could be reused like aeroplanes, cutting the price of a space mission to just $200,000, for fuel.
(3) He replied bluntly: "A Chilean president does not take an aeroplane to escape.
(4) Latvian aeroplanes were scrambled five times in 2010; in 2014 that figure was over a hundred, as Russian planes swooped into Baltic airspace.
(5) Celebrity endorsement is the super- weapon of modern humanitarianism – three-quarters of Britain's 30 largest charities (excluding housing and care trusts) have full-time celebrity liaison managers to ease the celebrities on and off aeroplanes in and out of hell.
(6) There are no aeroplanes coming through the airport since the conflict started and the fuel shortages mean that we are often in darkness for days on end.” Dr Rasha Al-Ardi, Unicef aid worker, Hodeidah “The situation is changing very quickly; it is not safe to let my children leave home.
(7) The long-awaited Dutch report into the shooting down of flight MH17 suggests attempts were made to cover up the causes of the disaster, including the removal from the crash site of parts of the aeroplane showing severe damage from a Buk missile.
(8) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
(9) Ronson admits that sometimes, when he is on an aeroplane flying to yet another far-flung destination, he finds himself thinking about death.
(10) A combination of photos show Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo as it detached from the jet aeroplane that carried it aloft and then broke apart.
(11) Recent advances in electronics have clearly taken this a step further, hence the new horror of laptops on board aeroplanes.
(12) A Pennsylvania newspaper on Friday apologised for publishing an editorial cartoon that compared aeroplane seating conditions to those on slave ships.
(13) Lebedev said that readers confronted on aeroplanes with a complimentary copy of the Daily Mail and the Independent were far more likely to read the Mail first.
(14) A Romanian stowaway has survived a 97-minute flight from Vienna to Heathrow while clinging to the retracted undercarriage of the aeroplane.
(15) And wherever the Cosmos went, glamour would be close behind; from weekly parties at Studio 54 to dubious behaviour on aeroplanes, the team became synonymous with excess.
(16) Niemeyer designed most of the city's important buildings, while French-born, avant-garde architect Lucio Costa crafted its distinctive aeroplane-like layout.
(17) Those inside St James’ Park would eventually be treated to the sight of Kane recovering from a recent dip in form to score his 30th goal of an extraordinary season but, first, they bore witness to a, rather bizarre, first half fly past from an aeroplane bearing a message from some near, and not so dear, neighbours.
(18) Feel my pane After five years avoiding long-haul flights, I was amazed by the transformation of the aeroplane in my absence.
(19) They include Peter Sands, chief executive of Standard Chartered, which has operated in China since the 19th century, and Tom Williams, who oversees products for Airbus, the aeroplane manufacturer.
(20) This war, now almost totally forgotten, was the first in which aircraft went up in reconnaissance to signal enemy positions to artillery batteries; it was also the first to see aerial bombardments, using bombs thrown from Italian aeroplanes and airships.
Kite
Definition:
(n.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.
(n.) Fig. : One who is rapacious.
(n.) A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.
(n.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
(n.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.
(n.) Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.
(n.) The brill.
(v. i.) To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.
(n.) The belly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Taliban banned television, music, dancing, and almost every other pastime, from kite-flying to cinema-going.
(2) The methods consist of arterial ligation in 6 cases, end-to-end anastomosis in 5 cases, prosthesis or autogenous vein grafts in 9 cases, "Flying Kite" technique by muscular embolism in 5 cases, vascular embolism by means of the spring-coil in 14 cases, direct operation combined with vascular embolism in 1 case, and breaking blood stream by the balloon catheter at first, then embolism by the spring-coil through retrograde catheterization and finally removal of false aneurysm in 1 case.
(3) Controversy seems to follow autism like the tail on a kite,” says an editorial in the journal by Bryan H King of the University of Washington and Seattle children’s hospital.
(4) The Float Beijing project gets people to build simple kites with air-quality testing equipment.
(5) To solve the quiz, viewers had to calculate every possible number within the kites - which were different colours - including numbers within other written numbers, and numbers within digital numbers (displayed as if on a calculator).
(6) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
(7) Golnaz Esfandiari, who has a blog on the Radio Free Europe website, Persian Letters, writes in a recent post : "There were also gatherings for paintball, kite flying, and blowing bubbles.
(8) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
(9) Twenty-two raptors (red kites and buzzards) were found dead in Conon Bridge, Scotland, in March in what looked like a poisoning.
(10) Andy Thomas, who for the past 20 years has run Kites & Things, a toy and hobbies store a few hundred metres from the harbourside in the town's high street, said business had been difficult since 2008, when Northern Rock nearly went under.
(11) "Viewers then also had to work out the total of the numbers for the different coloured kites.
(12) A sparrowhawk, light as a toy of balsa-wood and doped tissue-paper, zipped past at knee-level, kiting up over a bank of brambles and away into the trees.
(13) The most eye-catching of the kites that he flies – fixed-term parliaments, and a curbing of the power of the whips over the scrutiny of legislation – would make a big difference, but are wrapped in rather slippery language, so neither is a bankable pledge.
(14) The move comes after months of negotiations that have failed to persuade any major retailer to adopt the foundation's kite-mark standard.
(15) Case 1: A 12-year-old male suffered a severe headache followed by a generalized convulsion after he turned his head when he was flying a kite.
(16) The report calls for better conservation, especially following successful schemes to reintroduce or bolster populations such as the red kite and large blue butterfly.
(17) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
(18) Even by the standards of the hardline Taliban, famous for their tight control on everything, from kite flying to music, when they ruled Afghanistan , the uniformed squads are oppressive, said Michael Semple, a fellow at Harvard University, an expert on the Taliban.
(19) Direct cutaneous arteries provide blood supply to the kite flap when the only dorsal metacarpal vessel of the first web space is in a deep situation.
(20) Critically, this will lead to a system of kite marking practice authority and expertise which has been successfully applied to working with the most at-risk children and families.