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air ship

/air-ship/US // ˈɛərˌʃɪp //UK // (ˈɛəˌʃɪp) //

航空船,空运船,气船,空中舰艇

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a self-propelled, lighter-than-air aircraft with means of controlling the direction of flight; dirigible.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • A number of companies have emerged in recent years aiming to resurrect the airship, an early technology that was abandoned in favor of airplanes and helicopters.

  • The tilt-rotor allows the airship to operate closer to a helicopter during takeoff and landing.

  • Made from a converted airship hangar and boasting a capacity of up to 8,200 visitors per day, it’s the fourth-largest building on the planet by volume.

  • It takes place on an airship, with new tasks and environments including a kitchen.

  • Later, parked in the yard by the barn, it becomes an ocean explorer, an airship, a planetary rover.

  • The airship had become charged with static as a result of an electrical storm.

  • The fire appeared on the tail of the airship, igniting the leaking hydrogen.

  • In tax-paying circles it is said that the fashionable thing will be to start now and let the airship overtake you if it can.

  • They made a cluster of flashing color whose center point was a tiny airship, a speedster, a gay little craft.

  • Then, for the second time, the stricken airship blundered over us, this time in the direction of the sea.

  • Instantly, the proposition filled the air with airship talk.

  • The airship had been resting upon what seemed to be a little ridge.