Synonyms for airplane
ˈɛərˌpleɪnair·plane

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1. airplane, aeroplane, planenoun

   an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets

   "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"

   Synonyms:
   plane, planer, carpenter's plane, aeroplane, planing machine, woodworking plane, sheet

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1. • Heavier-than-air Craft

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1. turbo

   turbo is short for turbocharger-aircraft.

   Submitted by JP03 on March 23, 2015  

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1. List of paraphrases for "airplane":

   plane, aircraft, aeroplane, avion, air, planes, jet, flight

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How to use airplane in a sentence?

1. Stan Deal:

   It made all of our employees proud one more time of who we are and what we get to do, by flying a brand new airplane that is going to change the world one more time.

2. Whitfield Growdon:

   We don't have data that a parachute will save you when you jump out of an airplane.

3. Michael Ryan:

   I think we got the official invitation at 7:30 in the morning and we were on the airplane at 8:00 p.m..

4. Walter Odisho:

   I would look at material flow, I would look at processes, I would look at the design of the airplane with people in mind - how the work would be performed. I would design the airplane with specific areas of automation in mind.

5. Bertrand Piccard:

   An airplane flying day and night without fuel is more than a spectacular milestone in aviation, it's the living proof that clean technologies and renewable energies can achieve incredible feats; and that all these energy efficient technologies should now be used globally in order to have a cleaner world.