airship
airship noun: a lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.
Noun
airship (plural airships)
- A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.
- 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.
- A police air unit, a police helicopter.
- Any aircraft.
- On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.
- A high ranking official of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.
- I only make them to add perhaps a little weight to my view that, whether one thinks of Their Lordships of the Admiralty, or of Their Airships of the Air Ministry, or of Their Coalships of Lansdowne House, or of any other governing body, what is vastly more important than the precise theoretical...1947, Great Britain. National Coal Board, A Selection of General Addresses Delivered Before the National Coal Board Summer School, Cambridge, 1947, →OCLC, page 10
- Then where does the Navy come in, since it is generally agreed that the primary role of the Navy is the protection of our merchant ships? It is obvious that neither their Lordships of the Admiralty nor their Airships of the Air Ministry will relinquish their power without a struggle.1953, The Aeroplane, Temple Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 311
Verb
airship (third-person singular simple present airships, present participle airshipping, simple past and past participle airshipped)
- To transport goods by aircraft.
airship meaning in Tamil
airship in Tamil
- ஆகாயக் கப்பல், வான்கப்பல்
Examples of airship in a sentence
- And all the time, ever present but out of sight, "their Airships,” as they called the RAF top brass, were also watching, praying.1971, Basil Boothroyd, Prince Philip: An Informal Biography, page 217:
- But their Airships insisted that we fly there.2006 June 30, Roy Bagshaw, Alan Pollock, Malcolm Thomas, Ray Deacon, RAF Little Rissington: The Central Flying School, 1946–76, Pen and...
- For the Air Council – 'their airships', in counterpoint to the Board of Admiralty – nuclear deterrence and the manned bomber were the overriding concerns of the postwar era.2010 May 19, R. Moore, Nuclear Illusion, Nuclear Reality: Britain, the United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1958-64 (Nuclear Weapons and...
- "Their Airships back in London didn't give a bugger about Malta," he [Tom Neil] says2013, James Holland, Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943:
Forms of airship
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | airships |
| alternative form | air-ship |
| alternative form | air ship |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | airships |
| present participle | airshipping |
| past participle | airshipped |
| past | airshipped |
Origin of airship
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.
Words formed from airship
Phrases with airship
Questions about airship
- What does airship mean?
- Airship means a lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.
- What is airship in Tamil?
- Airship in Tamil is ஆகாயக் கப்பல், வான்கப்பல். See Airship meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use airship in a sentence?
- And all the time, ever present but out of sight, "their Airships,” as they called the RAF top brass, were also watching, praying.
- What part of speech is airship?
- Airship can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of airship?
- The plural of airship is airships.
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