hangar

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hangar

a shed for airplanes: The plane taxied to the hangar.

Not to be confused with:

hanger – a frame for hanging clothes: Here is a hanger for your coat.

han·gar

(hăng′ər, hăng′gər)

A shelter especially for housing or repairing aircraft.

[French, from Old French hangard, of Germanic origin; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.]

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hangar

(ˈhæŋə)

(Aeronautics) a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft

[C19: from French: shed, perhaps from Medieval Latin angārium shed used as a smithy, of obscure origin]

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hang•ar

(ˈhæŋ ər)

n.

1. a shed or shelter.

2. any relatively wide structure used for housing airplanes or airships.

[1850–55; < French: shed, hangar, Middle French, probably < Frankish *haimgard fence around a group of buildings =haim small village (see hamlet) + gard yard²]

hangar

- Simply meant "shed" for carriages when it came into English.

See also related terms for shed.

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Noun

hangar - a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained

airdock, repair shed

aerodrome, airdrome, airport, drome - an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo

structure, construction - a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"

Translations

حظيرة الطائِرات

hangár

hangar

Flugzeughalle Hangar

hangar

hangár

flugskÿli

aviorimessa hangar

angaras

angārs

hangar

hangár

hangar

飞机修理库飞机棚

hangar

[ˈhæŋəʳ] N → hangar m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

hangar

[ˈhæŋə^r] n → hangar m aircraft hangar

hangar

n → Hangar m, → Flugzeughalle f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

hangar

[ˈhæŋəʳ] n → hangar m inv, aviorimessa

hangar

(ˈhӕŋə) noun

a shed for aeroplanes.

References in periodicals archive ?

On the plus side, read what Richard Wechsler, who keeps his Turbo Arrow hangared in Concord, North Carolina, told us: "This is a shared hangar with about seven single-engine aircraft.

The hangar market: rent, buy or build? There's no take-it-to-the-bank answer that works for everyone. But with steel prices escalating, renting or buying an existing hangar may be the best bet

Severe weather was forecast at the air station where two P-3C Orions undergoing scheduled periodic maintenance were partially hangared. That is, their tails were exposed while the major portions of the aircraft were undercover.