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ˈairway
Also air-way.
1. a. A passage for air, esp. one for ventilation in a mine.
1851[see intake n. 4]. 1880Colliery Guard. 5 Nov., [It] drives the gas, in a diluted state, into the airways, and so carries it away to the upcast. 1908Daily Chron. 7 Mar. 5/5 Free the return air-way from noxious gases.
b. A passage for air into the lungs; also, spec. a device to keep this passage open.
1908Lancet 15 Feb. 491/1 Should there be much jaw spasm at the moment when it is desired to introduce the ‘air-way’ it may be necessary to separate the teeth by means of a Mason's gag. 1911Ibid. 11 Nov. 1335/2 Insisting on the routine use in every administration of an anaesthetic of establishing an oral airway by means of a mouth-prop and tongue-clip. 1962Ibid. 28 Apr. 879/2 To protect the patient against obstruction of the airway, endotracheal intubation with a cuffed tube is highly desirable during abdominal surgery.
2. a. A route through the air, esp. one regularly followed by aircraft from airport to airport. Also (freq. pl.) = air-line 2.
1873Punch 1 Feb. 44 [This book] professes to give..account of the..customs of..one of the planets... Are their railways, or airways, or whatever their means of locomotion may be called, as well managed as our own? 1908Westm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 3/2 An impression of 1920... Extract from Passenger Handbook of the Great Eastern Airway Company for June. 1911L. Blériot in Grahame-White & Harper Aeroplane 218 The Atlantic will, also, beyond doubt have its regular ‘airway’. 192019th Cent. Aug. 333 It is the business of an airway to sell speed at a price. 1937Discovery May 163/2 A message was sent to an airways agent. 1946G. B. Shaw Geneva Pref. 7 The houses and factories, the railways and airways, the orchards and furrowed fields. 1958Economist 1 Nov. 434/2 Outside the airways..the need is for international agreement on a standard form of navigation. 1958Economist 1 Nov. 434/2 When the airways control is completed, they will not be allowed to fly ‘see and be seen’ in British air lanes. 1971D. Potter Brit. Eliz. Stamps xii. 130 Cambrian Airways, when they took over the operation of some internal routes previously operated only by bea, inherited the airway service. 1985N.Y. Times 18 Mar. a4/4 We warn all international airways that all Iranian airspace is considered a prohibited zone.
b. airway beacon (see quot. 1940).
1937Aeronaut. Res. Comm. Rep. & Mem. No. 1793 p. 1 Light signals used in aviation..on or near the airway, airway beacons. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 19/2 Airway beacon, a powerful light (often flashing a morse sign), for the guidance of aircraft.
3. A radio channel (cf. air n.1 1 c). U.S.
1934in M. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang xii. 165. 1946 Baltimore Sun 10 Oct. 18/8 By that time a radio broadcaster had appeared with a portable microphone but Ted had nothing for the airways, even after most of the other players had taken their turns at the ‘mike’. |