What's the difference between aviator and aviatrix?

Aviator


Definition:

  • (n.) An experimenter in aviation.
  • (n.) A flying machine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
  • (2) Grant and to engineer his eventual acceptance to the School of Aviation Medicine.
  • (3) The satellite was jointly built by the Khrunichev centre in Moscow – named after a Soviet-era aviation minister, Mikhail Khrunichev – and Astrium, a Paris-based aerospace company.
  • (4) This device is suitable for direct monitoring of blood pressure and pulse frequency during operation, in the postoperative period as during inner clinical transport or aviation transport.
  • (5) The case records of 76 student aviators referred to the Neuropsychiatry Branch of the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine during the period 1968-78 are reviewed.
  • (6) The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) may choose to provide exemptions for studios hoping to use the technology for artistic purposes.
  • (7) Although we’ve seen improvements ... in some areas we have years to go, in particular the aviation area,” Nicholson said.
  • (8) Flirtey is yet to receive regulatory approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) – it first contacted the regulatory body on Thursday – and the drones can fly only 3km before needing to recharge, but the company is confident improvements in the technology will increase its reach.
  • (9) However, Friends of the Earth's Jane Thomas said: "We mustn't be taken in by aviation industry spin – building more airports or runways will have a major impact on local communities and our environment."
  • (10) Greece aviation sources told Agence France-Presse it was believed the plane had crashed into the sea 150 miles (240km) off the southern Greek island of Karpathos while in Egyptian airspace.
  • (11) Because of the physical and technological constraints, the only way in which we can realistically reduce aviation’s greenhouse gases is to fly less.
  • (12) If you were to say within the aviation industry we can reduce our carbon footprint by 25%, people would be saying well that’s fantastic, that is big news.
  • (13) Modern high-speed aviation and space flight are fraught with many problems and require a high standard of health and fitness.
  • (14) The disruption at the airport in West Sussex is already being looked into by the Civil Aviation Authority.
  • (15) In the early days of aviation there were incidents and then aviation became very safe.
  • (16) "The Chinese see aviation as a building block of growth.
  • (17) It explains the failure to unearth evidence of assassination: because state-appointed aviation experts conducted the investigation, their conclusion that it had been an accident proves that the state remains in the hands of the perpetrators (Law and Justice defence minister Antoni Macierewicz described their investigation as the greatest cover-up “in the history of the world”).
  • (18) Qatar has also appealed to international aviation authorities to rule as illegal the overflight ban imposed on Qatar Airways by its neighbours, and has briefed lawyers to challenge the flight and other restrictions in the courts.
  • (19) Malaysia Airlines and Malaysia's department of civil aviation are also working on removing all evidence from the crash site for further investigation – a complicated endeavour given that the site is on the frontline of a war zone.
  • (20) Bullish as ever, a press release reveals that the service should be available by 2015 – once the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s rules on the safety of unmanned aerial vehicles are finalised.

Aviatrix


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She played an aviatrix in Dorothy Arzner's Christopher Strong (1933) - so often she wore slacks.

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