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aviator|ˈeɪvɪeɪtə(r)| [ad. F. aviateur, f. L. avis bird + -ateur -ator.] †1. A heavier-than-air aircraft. Also attrib. Obs.
1891Brooklyn Morning Jrnl. 22 July 1/6 (Funk), Mr. Maxim's invention is called an Aviator. It is in form like a huge kite of silk, to which hangs a platform carrying the engines and the screw propellers. 1895Knowledge 2 Dec. 276/1 Mr. Maxim represents gunnery and the aviator flying machine. 1908V. Silberer in Aeronaut. Jrnl. July 51/1 A flying machine or aviator, however well constructed and furnished with such a motor. 2. a. The pilot of an aeroplane. In early use, as distinguished from an aeronaut, i.e., a balloonist.
1887[see aviate v.]. 1896Westm. Gaz. 15 Sept. 1/3 Intending aviators and aeronauts. 1909Ibid. 26 Oct. 1/3 Other ‘aviators’—the word has forced itself into the vocabulary, and it seems futile to resist it any longer—had other machines. 1911Yorks. Post 3 Aug. 9/6 At height of 1,000 metres an aviator can find a submarine. b. aviator's (or aviators') ear = aero-otitis media; aviator's (or aviators') sickness, see aviation (quot. 1928).
1937Aviator's ear [see aero-otitis media s.v. aero-].
1916Sci. Amer. Suppl. 3 June 357/2 What distinguishes aviators' sickness from mountain sickness is that the symptoms persist during descent and are aggravated after landing. Hence ˈaviatress, -trice, -trix, a female aviator or pilot.
1910Daily Chron. 5 Jan. 1/7 The aviatrice made a bad turn. 1911Aero June 74/2 Various articles on the subject of ‘Aviatresses’ which have appeared from time to time. 1927Glasgow Herald 29 Sept. 11 The English aviatrix, Miss Evelyn Spooner.
▸ orig. U.S. a. attrib. Of or designating spectacles, esp. sunglasses, typically having a wire frame and large lenses, similar in shape to those worn by early aviators; chiefly in aviator sunglasses, aviator glasses, aviator shades.
1948Van Nuys (Calif.) News 15 July i. 8/4 (advt.) Army air corps type aviator glasses. 1975New Yorker 17 Mar. 31/1 We..got a friendly greeting from a small, enthusiastic man of middle age who was dressed in the olive-colored uniform of the Parks Department (plus yellow aviator sunglasses). 1991Observer (Nexis) 5 May 32 Tom Cruise in Top Gun may have boosted sales of Ray-Ban aviator shades by 40 per cent. 2002L. Pontius Waking Walt iii. 19 His..eyes peered through quarter inch thick lenses set in outsized gold aviator frames. b. In pl. Aviator glasses or sunglasses.
1951Bridgeport (Connecticut) Post 27 June 19 (advt.) Gold metal frames ‘Tru-site’ aviators. 1973Los Angeles Times 1 Feb. 8/4 (advt.) Foxy frames–including aviators, wire rims, sleek metallics, wraparounds and more. 1985New Yorker 19 Aug. 21/2 The man with the freshly barbered beard..the purple-tinted aviators. 2003Daily Tel. 29 July 15/1 Chloé's pink-tinted aviators, which are embossed with a diamanté heart. |