aircraft

Noun

Meaning

a vehicle that can fly

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

aeronautics air force aeronautical machine plane ship airforce chopper buttonwood flight vehicle boat flying jet craft
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Antonyms

amphibian real estate amphibious vehicle ground combat vehicle waterborne vessel

Hypernyms

craft

Hyponyms

plane bogey bogie bogy cruise missile heavier-than-air craft

Phrases with the word

aircraft ticket dual-capable aircraft aircraft for air-to-air combat high-speed fighter aircraft strike aircraft engine of an aircraft

Examples

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. Charles Lindbergh

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't. Ernest Hemingway

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security. Alexander Haig

I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress. Charles Lindbergh

You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science? John Buchan

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building. Vladimir Putin

Close letter words and terms

airconditioner airconditioning aircover aircraft altitude aircraft attitude aircraft base