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airlift
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun airlift has 1 sense
- airlift(n = noun.act) lift - transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable); Array is a kind of conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation
has particulars: berlin airlift
Derived form verb airlift1
Verb airlift has 1 sense
- airlift(v = verb.contact) lift - fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" is one way to fly
Derived form noun airlift1
Sample sentences:
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
airlift, n. & v.
--n. the transport of troops and supplies by air, esp. in a blockade or other emergency.
--v.tr. transport in this way.
--n. the transport of troops and supplies by air, esp. in a blockade or other emergency.
--v.tr. transport in this way.
THESAURUS
airlift
aeroplane, air express, airfreight, airplane, asportation, balloon, be airborne, bearing, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, conveyance, cruise, drayage, drift, expressage, ferriage, ferry, flight, flit, fly, freight, freightage, glide, haulage, hauling, hop, hover, hydroplane, jet, jump, lighterage, lugging, navigate, packing, portage, porterage, railway express, run, sail, sailplane, seaplane, shipment, shipping, soar, solo, take the air, take wing, telpherage, test flight, toting, transport, transportation, transshipment, trip, truckage, volplane, waft, waftage, wagonage, wingROGET THESAURUS
airlift
Navigation
N navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway, sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift, sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory, under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit, bon voyage, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.
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