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AIR TRAVEL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Travel via aircraft

Example:

if you've time to spare go by air

Synonyms:

air; air travel; aviation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("air travel" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Domain member category:

peel off (leave a formation)

emplane; enplane (board a plane)

deplane (get off an airplane)

bring down; land; put down (cause to come to the ground)

ditch (make an emergency landing on water)

crash land (make an emergency landing)

belly-land (land on the underside without the landing gear)

chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)

crash-dive (descend steeply and rapidly)

nosedive (plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft)

power-dive (make a power dive)

sailplane; soar (fly a plane without an engine)

kite (soar or fly like a kite)

glide (fly in or as if in a glider plane)

jet (fly a jet plane)

test fly (test a plane)

solo (fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers)

fly contact (fly a plane by using visible landmarks or points of reference)

fly blind (fly an airplane solely by relying on instruments)

aviate; fly; pilot (operate an airplane)

crab (direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind)

buzz (fly low)

stall (experience a stall in flight, of airplanes)

stall (cause an airplane to go into a stall)

stooge (cruise in slow or routine flights)

cruise (travel at a moderate speed)

red-eye (travel on an overnight flight)

fly (travel in an airplane)

overfly; pass over (fly over)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "air travel"):

flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)

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