airship

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n. 飞艇, 飞船

发音

US

词形变化

airships 复数 airships airshipped airshipping airships 三单 airshipping 现在分词 airshipped 过去式 airshipped 过去分词

别名

air-ship

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.

    航空 商务 工程

    Airships are posited to be cheaper to operate over time than fixed-wing aircraft, but as there are no large fleets, this is hard to prove in practice.

  2. 2.

    A police air unit, a police helicopter.

    美国 航空 商务 工程 政治 法律
  3. 3.

    Any aircraft.

    非正式 航空 商务 工程

    On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.

  4. 4.

    A high ranking official of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.

    贬义
v.
  1. 1.

    To transport goods by aircraft.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

dirigible

下位词 5

sausage zeppelin blimp barrage balloon sausage balloon

部分词 2

car gondola
动词

同义词 1

airfreight

上位词 1

freight

相关短语

airship tender airship carrier airship carriers airship tenders vacuum airship

词源

From air + ship. * (jocular British sense): is in imitation of worship "form of address for magistrates et al., possibly also an oblique reference to Colonel Blimp.

来源：wiktionary