airline

«airline» in Mova's school dictionary: a company that flies planes carrying passengers or goods… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an airline, airlines)

meaning for a pupil

1) An airline is a company that flies planes carrying passengers or goods to different places. tree →

2) An air line can also be a pipe or tube that carries air, for example to a diver. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and travel, families book tickets with an airline, check in their luggage and get boarding passes. In geography, airlines link cities and countries. In maths, airline timetables and ticket prices are used for time and money problems. Phrases: «airline ticket», «airline pilot», «airline food».

examples

• Which airline are we flying with? tree →
• The airline lost our suitcase. tree →
• My aunt is an airline pilot. tree →
• The airline gave us snacks on the plane. tree →
• Airline rules say liquids must be in small bottles. tree →
• A big airline has hundreds of planes. tree →
• The airline ticket cost 300 dollars each, so 4 tickets cost 1200 dollars. tree →
• Each airline has its own logo on the plane's tail. tree →

note

Countable: an airline (starts with a vowel sound, so «an»). One word. An airline is a company; the plane is an aircraft or aeroplane (US airplane); the place is an airport.

In the corpora

• It was reported that a tribunal made an airline honour what its website chatbot had wrongly promised a customer.
• A child flying alone, an unaccompanied minor, stays with the airline staff member who looks after them.
• For the same distance, flying on a big airline is much safer than going by car.

Trees and pragmatics

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