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flying machine

flying machine noun: early term for an aircraft; a machine for flying in (gerund); a machine that flies (participial adjective).

Noun

flying machine (plural flying machines)

  1. (archaic) Early term for an aircraft; a machine for flying in (gerund); a machine that flies (participial adjective).
    • "Around the World in Eighty Days" once had so much appeal to the imagination that Jules Verne wrote a novel about it. The latest proposal is to girdle the globe in three months in a flying machine. The practicability of such a flight is here discussed by an expert. Mr. Woodhouse is a member of the...1914 February 28, Henry Woodhouse, “Girdling the Globe by Motor-Driven Aircraft”, in Collier's, volume 52, number 24, page 13

Forms of flying machine

pluralflying machines

Questions about flying machine

What does flying machine mean?
Flying machine means early term for an aircraft; a machine for flying in (gerund); a machine that flies (participial adjective).
What part of speech is flying machine?
Flying machine is a noun.
What is the plural of flying machine?
The plural of flying machine is flying machines.

Words near flying machine in the dictionary

  1. flying lemur
  2. flying lemurs
  3. flying like a bird
  4. flying lizard
  5. flying low
  6. flying machine
  7. flying machines
  8. flying mare
  9. flying mares
  10. flying meet
  11. flying meets

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