airplaneair‧plane /ˈeəpleɪn $ ˈer-/ noun [countable] American EnglishExamples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Its airplane manufacturing plants largely are idle.
Last year 1. 3 billion passengers took a flight in an airplane.
Loren Carpenter launches an airplane flight simulator on the screen.
None of the surface ships or submarines had the capability of shooting down an airplane.
Sabi is to board an airplane for Amsterdam at 3 a. m. Thursday.
Suddenly it seemed like a long time since people talked about airplanes with anything but dread.
Their idea is to create forests by dropping saplings, packed into dart-shaped containers, from airplanes.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►a plane accident/an airplane accident
American English (also a flying accident)· Holly died in a plane accident.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►crash
· I probably looked as though I had been in an all-day airplane crash.· Palma was arrested last year, along with dozens of federal police who were protecting him after an airplane crash.· They always die in airplane crashes or do too many drugs at the end of it.
►pilot
· Be an airplane pilot with every project.· The 59-year-old airplane pilot and star investment banker said he plans to form his own firm, Greenhill&.· Blaming Sterling Marlin for Earnhardt's death is like blaming an airplane pilot for a skydiver's death.
VERB►fly
· It's a high, like driving racing cars, flying airplanes.· I already knew how to fly airplanes.· And she was learning how to fly an airplane.· We never flew in an airplane.· She has learned to scuba dive and fly an airplane.
►get
· That fifteen-year-old got off the airplane drunker than hell, served by the airline.· If no one gets on an airplane because of security worries, the companies' business is finished.
►take
· She and her husband, Joe, an auto mechanic, have taken their first airplane trips.· C., I used to take the airplane shuttle service the night before.
a vehicle that flies through the air and has one or more enginesSYN aeroplane British English, planeGRAMMAR: Patterns with airplane• You usually say get on an airplane: · As soon as he heard the news he got on an airplane.• You can also say get in an airplane.• You say get off an aeroplane: · We got off the airplane in Mexico City.• You usually say that someone is on an airplane: · You can’t smoke on an airplane.• You can also say that someone is in an airplane.• You go somewhere by airplane: · We usually go by airplane when we visit them.