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airship

noun

Etymology

From air + ship. * (jocular British sense): is in imitation of worship "form of address for magistrates et al., possibly also an oblique reference to Colonel Blimp.

  1. derived from *skēyb-✻
  2. inherited from *skipą✻
  3. inherited from *skip✻
  4. inherited from sċip
  5. inherited from ship
  6. compounded as airship — “air + ship”

Definitions

  1. A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as…

    A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.

    • Airships are posited to be cheaper to operate over time than fixed-wing aircraft, but as there are no large fleets, this is hard to prove in practice.

  2. A police air unit, a police helicopter.

  3. Any aircraft.

    • On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A high ranking official of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.

      • And all the time, ever present but out of sight, "their Airships,” as they called the RAF top brass, were also watching, praying.

    2. To transport goods by aircraft.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at airship. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at airship. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at airship

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA