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helicopter|ˈhɛlɪkɒptə(r)|
[ad. F. hélicoptère, f. Gr. ἕλικος, ἕλιξ spiral, helix + πτερόν wing.]
An aircraft which derives its lift and propulsive power principally from the action of one or more lifting screws or rotor-blades, usu. engine-driven, revolving horizontally: modern helicopters are highly-manœuvrable machines used for short or medium-range flights. Also attrib. and Comb. Also formerly in Fr. form.
[1861G. L. M. de Ponton Brit. Pat. 1929, The required ascensional motion is given to my aerostatical apparatus (which I intend denominating aeronef or helicoptere,) by means of two or more superposed horizontal helixes combined together.] 1887tr. Verne's Clipper of Clouds iv, We can look forward to such contrivances..which we can call streophores, helicopters, orthopters..by means of which man will become the master of space. 1908O. & W. Wright in Century Mag. Sept. 641/2 Several years later we began building these hélicoptères for ourselves. 1909Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 4/2 Mr. Howard Wright's helicopter, with which flying tests have been satisfactorily carried out, is now en route for Italy. Ibid. 2 Mar. 4/1 The Gobron engined Breguet helicopter aeroplane. 1921Glasgow Herald 11 Nov. 6 Recently the Aero Club of France..offered a prize..to the first helicopter pilot in France to take a machine 25 metres up in the air. 1923Ibid. 5 May 8 (heading) Helicopter Flight. 1927C. L. M. Brown Conquest of Air 39 The helicopter method of flight. 1958Jane's Fighting Ships 1957–8 9 Official illustrations of the new..helicopter carrier. 1959Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 20/7 He was opening the helicopter station built in Battersea. Ibid., It is intended primarily to be experimental and to assist in the development of helicopter services for London rather than as a permanent station. 1961Ibid. 11 Oct. 25/7 The men are normal infantry, not specialist helicopter-borne troops. 1963Economist 30 Mar. 1213/1 Several helicopter-carriers and three anti-submarine hunter-killer air groups. 1967Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 17 Mar. 4 The petrol drums..were blasted alight by tracer bullets from R.A.A.F. helicopter gunships hovering 60 ft. above the treetops. 1973Guardian 24 Feb. 2/2 Three helicopter carriers had arrived in the Gulf of Tonkin to join the US naval fleet.
Hence ˈhelicopt, ˈhelicopter vbs. trans. and intr., to fly with or as with a helicopter; to transport by helicopter; heliˈcopterist (now rare), one who uses a helicopter.
1923Daily Mail 12 Feb. 7 M. Raoul de Pescara, the helicopterist. 1926Spectator 10 Apr. 665/1 An albatross, helicoptering over the masthead, signalled the land. 1959Time 23 Mar. 15 He might be helicoptered up to Camp David. 1961Aeroplane CI. 121/2 The sequence is then: brakes off..and helicopt away. 1962New Scientist 3 May 230/1 The rotor on its long spindle helicoptered up and out of its case into the air. 1965Sunday Times 10 Oct. 44/3 They build it on deck, and then helicopt it ashore. 1968Radio Times 10 Oct. 31/1 We joined her [sc. the aircraft⁓carrier] off Singapore, helicoptering over the rubber forest.
▸ helicopter parent n.with allusion to the notion of such parents ‘hovering’ over their children depreciative (orig. U.S.) a parent who takes an excessive and overprotective interest in the life of his or her child, esp. with regard to education.
1989Frederick (Maryland) News-Post 6 Sept. b1/4 But don't be what Mr. Radovich calls ‘a *helicopter parent’, who hovers over children, making sure everything is done for them. 2006Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. 4 Helicopter parents..think that they are helping and protecting their child by doing their homework. |