helicopter

«helicopter» in Mova's school dictionary: an aircraft with big spinning blades on top, which lets… — 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 (a helicopter, helicopters); verb (helicopter, helicopters, helicoptered — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) A helicopter is an aircraft with big spinning blades on top, which lets it go straight up, straight down and hover in one place. tree →

2) (rare, verb) To helicopter someone is to carry them by helicopter. tree →

3) (informal) A helicopter parent is a parent who watches over a child too closely. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and news it is used for rescues, hospitals, police and news reporting. In science, pupils make paper helicopters to test falling and air resistance. Phrases: rescue helicopter, air ambulance, helicopter pad, helicopter parent.

examples

• A rescue helicopter lifted the climber off the mountain. tree →
• The helicopter hovered above the field. tree →
• We made paper helicopters and timed them falling. tree →
• The injured man was helicoptered to hospital. tree →
• A helicopter can land on a small pad. tree →
• The police helicopter shone a light down. tree →
• His mum is a bit of a helicopter parent. tree →
• Each helicopter can carry 6 people, so 3 helicopters carry 18. tree →

note

Countable. Short slang: chopper, heli. Spelling: h-e-l-i-c-o-p-t-e-r. Trap: a helicopter is not a plane; it does not need a runway.

In the corpora

• NASA's Dragonfly is a nuclear-powered drone helicopter due to launch in 2028 and fly between sites on Titan in the 2030s.
• A helicopter's rotor blades are long thin wings that spin; the small tail rotor stops the body spinning the other way.
• The rover Perseverance carried a small helicopter called Ingenuity, which flew on Mars, the first powered flight on another planet.

Trees and pragmatics

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