(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.
Plane
Definition:
(n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
(a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
(a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
(a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
(a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
(a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
(a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
(a.) To efface or remove.
(a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(3) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(4) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(6) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
(7) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(8) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(9) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
(10) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(11) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(13) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
(14) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(15) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
(16) The resistance is a complex function of the perfusion pressure and the cross-sectional area of the stenosis and cannot be accurately predicted from a single plane angiographic image.
(17) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(18) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(19) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(20) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.