helicoptern.
/ˈhɛlᵻkɒptə/, U.S. /ˈhɛləˌkɑptər/ An aircraft which derives its lift and propulsive power principally from the action of one or more lifting screws or rotor-blades, usually engine-driven, revolving horizontally: modern helicopters are highly-manoeuvrable machines used for short or medium-range flights. Also attributive and in other combinations. Also formerly in French form.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > helicopter or gyrocopter
helicopter1861
automotive1865
gyroplane1907
gyropter1908
gyrocopter1915
egg-beater1937
mixmaster1946
'copter1947
chopper1951
whirlybird1951
1861 G. L. M. de Ponton Brit. Patent 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.
1872 Aeronaut Jan. Helicoptère or Screw-Model, by M. Pénaud.
1887 tr. J. Verne 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.
1908 O. & W. Wright in Cent. Mag. Sept. 641/2 Several years later we began building these hélicoptères for ourselves.
1909 Westm. 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.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 4/1 The Gobron engined Breguet helicopter aeroplane.
1921 Glasgow 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.
1923 Glasgow Herald 5 May 8 (heading) Helicopter Flight.
1927 C. L. M. Brown Conquest of Air 39 The helicopter method of flight.
1958 Jane's Fighting Ships 1957–8 9 Official illustrations of the new..helicopter carrier.
1959 Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 20/7 He was opening the helicopter station built in Battersea.
1959 Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 20/7 It is intended primarily to be experimental and to assist in the development of helicopter services for London rather than as a permanent station.
1961 Daily Tel. 11 Oct. 25/7 The men are normal infantry, not specialist helicopter-borne troops.
1963 Economist 30 Mar. 1213/1 Several helicopter-carriers and three anti-submarine hunter-killer air groups.
1967 Courier-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.
1973 Guardian 24 Feb. 2/2 Three helicopter carriers had arrived in the Gulf of Tonkin to join the US naval fleet.
Derivatives
ˈhelicopt v.
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1961 Aeroplane 101 121/2 The sequence is then: brakes off..and helicopt away.
1965 Sunday Times 10 Oct. 44/3 They build it on deck, and then helicopt it ashore.
ˈhelicopter v. (intransitive) to fly with or as with a helicopter; to transport by helicopter.
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the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] > in specific way
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helicopter1926
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > fly (in) an aircraft [verb (intransitive)] > in an aeroplane > in a helicopter
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1926 Spectator 10 Apr. 665/1 An albatross, helicoptering over the masthead, signalled the land.
1959 Time 23 Mar. 15 He might be helicoptered up to Camp David.
1962 New Scientist 3 May 230/1 The rotor on its long spindle helicoptered up and out of its case into the air.
1968 Radio Times 10 Oct. 31/1 We joined her [sc. the aircraft~carrier] off Singapore, helicoptering over the rubber forest.
heliˈcopterist n. now rare one who uses a helicopter.
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1923 Daily Mail 12 Feb. 7 M. Raoul de Pescara, the helicopterist.
Draft additions August 2007
helicopter parent n. [with allusion to the notion of such parents ‘hovering’ over their children] depreciative a parent who takes an excessive and overprotective interest in the life of his or her child, esp. with regard to education.
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1989 Frederick (Maryland) 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.
2006 Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. 4 Helicopter parents..think that they are helping and protecting their child by doing their homework.
Draft additions January 2018
helicopter mom n. [with allusion to the notion of such mothers ‘hovering’ over their children] depreciative (North American) a mother who takes an excessive and overprotective interest in the life and well-being of her child or children, esp. with regard to education; cf. helicopter parent n. at Additions.
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1994 G. Mann When One Day at Time is too Long xi. 272 Kids don't need helicopter moms hovering over their every hangnail.
2005 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 30 Apr. (Go Parenting section) 7 You will run the risk of turning into one of those hypervigilant helicopter moms who hums and hovers over her brood, panicking if developmental benchmarks aren't met on cue.
2015 B. Masterman Fear Darkness v. 34 Don't hover, Brigid. They're nearly old enough for college, and you're sounding like a helicopter mom.
helicopter parenting n. depreciative the action or practice of being a parent who takes an excessive and overprotective interest in the life of his or her child, esp. with regard to education; cf. helicopter parent n. at Additions.
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1999 Re: School Probl.? in alt.support.tourette (Usenet newsgroup) 8 Oct. I guess I am still trying to find that fine line between being supportive and ‘helicopter parenting’ (always hovering about).
2005 Wall St. Jrnl. 4 Apr. (Eastern ed.) d1 Some warning signs of helicopter parenting: You fall into a lasting funk when your child doesn't perform at expected levels.
2015 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 4 Jan. (Ad Astra section) b3/1 Sometimes scoffed at as the ultimate in helicopter parenting, Osterberg and others see only benefits in relocating or buying a second home to be close to their college kids.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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