aeroplane

«aeroplane» in Mova's school dictionary: A flying vehicle with wings and one or more engines that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an aeroplane, aeroplanes)

meaning for a pupil

(UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) A flying vehicle with wings and one or more engines that carries people or goods through the air; a plane. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday and school word in the UK and Commonwealth for «plane»; in the USA and Canada it is «airplane». Appears in stories about travel, in science about forces (lift, thrust, drag) and in maths (an aeroplane flies 800 km per hour). Phrases: «by aeroplane», «a paper aeroplane», «get on an aeroplane».

examples

• We flew to Spain in an aeroplane. tree →
• Let's make paper aeroplanes! tree →
• The aeroplane took off from the runway. tree →
• An aeroplane flies at about 900 kilometres an hour. tree →
• The aeroplane has 180 seats in 30 rows of 6. tree →
• I watched the aeroplanes landing at the airport. tree →

note

Countable; «an aeroplane» (starts with a vowel sound). Spelling: UK «aeroplane», US «airplane»; both shorten to «plane». In maths: distance = speed × time (an aeroplane at 800 km/h for 3 hours flies 2,400 km).

In the corpora

• The war brought new machines such as tanks, aeroplanes, submarines and machine guns, which made it far deadlier than earlier wars.
• Most meteors glow and burn out between about 70 and 120 kilometres up, far above aeroplanes and clouds.
• On 17 December 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled flight in an aeroplane; it lasted 12 seconds.
• The Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «aeroplane» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.