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# {{lb|en|chiefly|US|Canada|Philippines}} A [[powered]] [[heavier-than-air]] [[aircraft]] with fixed [[wing]]s.
# {{lb|en|chiefly|US|Canada|Philippines}} A [[powered]] [[heavier-than-air]] [[aircraft]] with fixed [[wing]]s.
#: {{hyper|en|aircraft}}
#: {{hyper|en|aircraft}}
# {{lb|en|chiefly|US|Canada|Philippines}} A game to encourage children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends a spoonful of food is an '''aircraft''' flying into the child's mouth.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1988|author=Matthew Linn|author2=Sheila Fabricant|author3=Dennis Linn|title=Healing the Eight Stages of Life|publisher=Paulist Press|isbn=9780809129805|page=66
|text=So, he'd take a spoon and he'd start playing '''airplane''', circling the spoon around in the air until it was ready to land in the runway of my mouth.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1997|month=03|author=Maria Flook|title=Open Water|publisher=Ecco Press|isbn=9780880014854
|text=Willis wondered what this fellow wanted to do, spoon feed him? Play '''airplane'''?}}
#* {{quote-book|en|date=2013-05-13|author=Theo L. Dorpat|author2=Michael L. Miller|title=Clinical Interaction and the Analysis of Meaning: A New Psychoanalytic Theory|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134887255|text=For instance, Jan has taken to playing '''airplane''' with the spoon to get Charley to attend to the spoon and want to take it into his mouth.}}


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Revision as of 11:07, 23 June 2024

English

Boeing 737 airplane

Alternative forms

Etymology

air +‎ plane, alteration of aeroplane

Pronunciation

Noun

airplane (plural airplanes)

  1. (chiefly US, Canada, Philippines) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
    Hypernym: aircraft
  2. (chiefly US, Canada, Philippines) A game to encourage children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth.
    • 1988, Matthew Linn, Sheila Fabricant, Dennis Linn, Healing the Eight Stages of Life, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 66:
      So, he'd take a spoon and he'd start playing airplane, circling the spoon around in the air until it was ready to land in the runway of my mouth.
    • 1997 03, Maria Flook, Open Water, Ecco Press, →ISBN:
      Willis wondered what this fellow wanted to do, spoon feed him? Play airplane?
    • 2013 May 13, Theo L. Dorpat, Michael L. Miller, Clinical Interaction and the Analysis of Meaning: A New Psychoanalytic Theory, Routledge, →ISBN:
      For instance, Jan has taken to playing airplane with the spoon to get Charley to attend to the spoon and want to take it into his mouth.

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Translations

Verb

airplane (third-person singular simple present airplanes, present participle airplaning, simple past and past participle airplaned)

  1. (intransitive) To fly in an aeroplane.
  2. (transitive) To transport by aeroplane.

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