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AVIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("aviation" 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)
fly (travel in an airplane)
red-eye (travel on an overnight flight)
cruise (travel at a moderate speed)
stooge (cruise in slow or routine flights)
stall (cause an airplane to go into a stall)
stall (experience a stall in flight, of airplanes)
buzz (fly low)
crab (direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind)
aviate; fly; pilot (operate an airplane)
fly blind (fly an airplane solely by relying on instruments)
fly contact (fly a plane by using visible landmarks or points of reference)
solo (fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers)
test fly (test a plane)
jet (fly a jet plane)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aviation"):
flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The art of operating aircraft
Synonyms:
airmanship; aviation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("aviation" is a kind of...):
art; artistry; prowess (a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation)
Derivation:
aviate (operate an airplane)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The operation of aircraft to provide transportation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("aviation" is a kind of...):
industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)
Derivation:
aviate (operate an airplane)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The aggregation of a country's military aircraft
Synonyms:
air power; aviation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("aviation" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
