单词 | airbus |
释义 | > as lemmasairbus airbus n. (also with capital initials) (a proprietary name for) an aircraft designed to carry large numbers of passengers. ΚΠ 1910 Times 4 May 11/6 Probably when there are air-buses we shall call their drivers airmen. 1960 Aeroplane 98 468/1 A subsonic short- to medium-stage high passenger-density aircraft, for operation at low fares. This we call the Air-Bus. 1975 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 9 June 13 Lufthansa airlines has reconfirmed its order for three Airbus Industrie A-300B wide-body transports, and has taken options on five more Airbuses. 1991 P. J. O'Rourke Parl. of Whores (1992) 181 It was an Aegis guided-missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes , that obliterated an Iranian airbus full of civilians over the Persian Gulf in 1988. < as lemmas |
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