What's the difference between aerostat and dirigible?

Aerostat


Definition:

  • (n.) A balloon.
  • (n.) A balloonist; an aeronaut.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The manipulation makes it possible to reduce the number of emergency thoracotomies undertaken for hemo- and aerostatic indications.

Dirigible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Highlights include a stiffly worded letter from a gentleman complaining to the home secretary about the lack of sanitary towels for suffragettes in Holloway (while avoiding using the phrase “sanitary towels”) and a Daily Express article about Miss Muriel Matters who took to a dirigible to drop paper bills on parliament in return for their “dropping” of the women’s suffrage bills.
  • (2) Les dirigeants mondiaux qui se retrouvent à Paris, espèrent limiter la hausse de la température moyenne sur Terre à 2°C maximum – mais les analyses montrent que leurs engagements à réduire les émissions ne permettraient que d’en arriver à 3°C .
  • (3) Johann Carl George Fricke, the first "dirigating surgeon" of the newly erected General Hospital in Hamburg (1823) has taken up these suggestions and carried out similar investigations on two patients.
  • (4) He accused him of wasting money on crackpot schemes, including a suggestion that the city could use inflatable dirigible balloons to rescue swimmers who got into difficulties.
  • (5) High above the Philip Marlowe world, hover cars swoop and dirigible billboards float by.
  • (6) The last time Brazil experienced such a deep slump was in 1901, when soldiers were still fighting the last Indian war and aviator Santos Dumont was making a name for himself by flying around the Eiffel Tower in a dirigible.

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