单词 | rotor wash |
释义 | > as lemmasrotor wash rotor wash n. turbulence or flow of air, esp. a downdraught, caused by a helicopter rotor.In quot. 1944 figurative; cf. hot air n. 2. ΚΠ 1944 H. F. Gregory Anything Horse can Do xvii. 177 These things were still untried. And unless they could be accomplished, the whole idea was just so much rotor-wash. 1947 C. S. Jackson & J. Stein Newsroom Dragonfly A long branch of a tree caught the rotor wash, reeled away and then swept back, smashing the copter's tail rotor. 1992 Equinox Aug. 50/2 The rotor wash, flowing down along the vertical cliff face, had caught him in a tornadolike vortex. 2005 J. Fredston Snowstruck iv. 122 As the helicopter moved into a hover overhead, the freezing rotor wash would reach a hundred miles per hour. < as lemmas |
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