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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
airplane
/ˈɛəpleɪn/
noun1 of 2
a machine that flies through the air
- “The new airplane flies at twice the speed of sound.”Tatoeba
- “Within minutes after the take-off, the airplane was in trouble.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To fly in an aeroplane.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)