piano keys
crabbed
clearway
button
threshold
short finals
final approach
runwayed
crab
flare path
base leg
touch-and-go landing
landing deck
flight deck
approach pattern
pattern
traffic pattern
aerodrome
missed approach point
horn
rolling takeoff
stopway
airstrip
aircraft movement
'drome
revenue management
track
belly
side
waterdrome
island
airport
landing
approach
go-around
feeder line
landing approach
black hole
ascending node
tailstand
runway
air cargo
vertical bank
taxi distance
flarepath
fingerpost
red-eye
tarmac
admedian
flaptrack
apron
linkway
skyway
array
telemark
wireline
glideslope
aerobeacon
strip
bolter
high beam
gamma
cabin
sideslip
crab angle
connecting flight
unit disk
jato
hyperoval
Gurney flap
holding pattern
polar coordinate
airview
vertical
call the ball
perpendicular
planiform
low beam
up
airway
V2
airgroup
airprox
curb
mile
railroad
air lane
shrimp boat
railroad track
midair
railway
astrocompass
wetted area
approach path
hip
bank
crabbed
runwayed
admedian
vertical
perpendicular
planiform
up
piano keys
clearway
button
threshold
short finals
final approach
crab
flare path
base leg
touch-and-go landing
landing deck
flight deck
approach pattern
pattern
traffic pattern
aerodrome
missed approach point
horn
rolling takeoff
stopway
airstrip
aircraft movement
'drome
revenue management
track
belly
side
waterdrome
island
airport
landing
approach
go-around
feeder line
landing approach
black hole
ascending node
tailstand
runway
air cargo
vertical bank
taxi distance
flarepath
fingerpost
red-eye
tarmac
flaptrack
apron
linkway
skyway
array
telemark
wireline
glideslope
aerobeacon
strip
bolter
high beam
gamma
cabin
sideslip
crab angle
connecting flight
unit disk
jato
hyperoval
Gurney flap
holding pattern
polar coordinate
airview
low beam
airway
V2
airgroup
airprox
curb
mile
railroad
air lane
shrimp boat
railroad track
midair
railway
astrocompass
wetted area
approach path
hip
bank
call the ball
adj
- Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
- Cramped, bent.
- Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
- Crowded together and difficult to read.
- Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.
noun
noun
- The end of a runway.
- A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- A bud.
- An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The center (bullseye) of the house.
- The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- Synonym of adjuster.
- The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- A button man; a professional assassin.
- A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- The clitoris.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
verb
noun
- The start of the landing area of a runway.
- The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action.
- The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
- The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
- An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
- The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
- Any end or boundary.
- The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
adj
noun
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To back out of something.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To complain about.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To complain.
noun
- the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport
- a perceptual structure
- a customary way of operation or behavior
- a decorative or artistic work
- something regarded as a normative example
- a model considered worthy of imitation
- something intended as a guide for making something else
- graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
verb
noun
- An airfield
- An airfield equipped with air traffic control facilities and hangars as well as accommodation for passengers and cargo; an airport.
- An airfield used for managed aircraft operation, either military or civilian, having such facilities as are necessary for operation.
- Any area of land or water used for aircraft operation, regardless of facilities.
noun
- A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
- An antler.
- The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- A conical device used to direct waves.
- An erection of the penis.
- A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
- A telephone.
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- Any of several musical wind instruments.
- The Ionic volute.
- A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
verb
noun
noun
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a course over which races are run
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
- (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
- a groove on a phonograph recording
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
verb
noun
- The lower fuselage of an airplane.
- The stomach.
- The main curved portion of a knife blade.
- The abdomen, especially a fat one.
- The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
- The womb.
- The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
verb
noun
- a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
- a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
- one of two or more contesting groups
- either the left or right half of a body
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- an extended outer surface of an object
- an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)
- a family line of descent
- a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- an elevated geological formation
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
adj
verb
noun
- A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- A roundabout; A traffic circle.
- A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; A peninsula; A half-island.
- A traffic island.
- A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
- An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
verb
noun
- The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
- An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
- An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
- The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
- A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
- A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.
- An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
- A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.
verb
- To play an approach shot.
- To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
- Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
- To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
- Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
- To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
- To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
- To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
- To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
noun
- A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- A void into which things disappear, or from which nothing emerges; an impenetrable area or subject; an area impervious to communication.
- A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- A gravitationally domineering celestial body with an event horizon from which even light cannot escape; the most dense material in the universe, condensed into a singularity, usually formed by a collapsing massive star.
- A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
verb
noun
- a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a chute down which logs can slide
- a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc.
noun
- An overnight airplane flight.
- Either of two subspecies of the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a venomous pit viper native to the United States: either the broad-banded copperhead or Texas copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus), or the highland moccasin or northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen).
- The redeye tetra (Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae), a freshwater fish, commonly kept in aquariums, native to South America.
- The red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus), a small American songbird.
- Redness in the eye(s) of someone in a colour photograph, as an unwanted consequence of light from a flash reflecting off blood vessels in the retina.
- Any of various sunfishes of the family Centrarchidae, especially the redeye bass (Micropterus coosae).
- A drink made by adding a shot of espresso to a cup of coffee.
- A strong but poor-quality whiskey.
- The red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas), which is native to neotropical rainforests.
- Redness of the conjunctiva; especially when caused by conjunctivitis (pink-eye).
- The common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus), a freshwater fish.
- A species of cicada, Psaltoda moerens, native to eastern Australia.
- Any of various round herrings of the genus Etrumeus.
- Any of various grass-skippers or hesperiid butterflies of the genus Matapa.
- A drink consisting of beer with tomato juice.
verb
noun
- The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal
- The sides of a tree's canopy.
- The portion of a stage extending towards the audience beyond the proscenium arch in a theatre.
- The paved area below the yellow line on a race track.
- The loading, parking or roadway area immediately beside a railway station
- A removable cover for the passengers' feet and legs in an open horse carriage.
- The cap of a cannon; a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry.
- The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops.
- An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.
- The spreading end of a driveway.
- A large decal toward the bottom of a pinball table.
verb
noun
- A landing strip.
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
- The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- A strip steak.
- The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- A trough for washing ore.
- An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
- A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- A comic strip.
- A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
verb
- To perform a striptease.
- To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- To remove cargo from (a container).
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- To take off clothing.
- To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
noun
- A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
- A horse that wins at long odds.
- A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
- A person who sifts flour or meal.
- A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
- A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
- In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
- A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
- A filter mechanism.
- An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
- A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
verb
noun
- Flight path angle; the angle by which an aircraft's flight path deviates from the horizontal plane.
- A non-SI unit of measure of mass, equal to 1 microgramme.
- Synonym of gamma correction.
- The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).
- The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
- A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change in delta with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- A constant approximately equal to 0.57721566, symbolized by γ (also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant).
- A non-SI unit of measure of magnetic flux density, equal to 1 nT.
- Slope of log-log plot of video input and luminance output.
- A gamma ray or gamma-ray photon.
noun
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- A small room; an enclosed place.
- A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
- The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
- A signal box.
- A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
- A private room on a ship.
- A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
verb
noun
- The angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
- A flight manoeuvre that uses opposing rudder and aileron inputs to move the aircraft sideways without turning it.
- A flight maneuver to rapidly lose speed and/or altitude whilst not altering the aircraft's ground track.
- A flight condition where an aircraft's longitudinal axis is not aligned with its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
verb
adj
noun
- a straight line at right angles to another line
- a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
- a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
- an extremely steep face
adj
adj
- Traveling towards a major terminus.
- Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
- Aloft.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Functional; working.
- Raised; lifted.
- Above the horizon, in the sky.
- well-known; renowned
- Awake and out of bed.
- Willing; ready.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Finished, to an end
- On or at a physically higher level.
- Chilled and served without ice.
- Erect.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Facing upwards.
- Well-informed; current.
- In a good mood.
- Built, constructed.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- Riding the horse; mounted.
- Standing; upright.
- Next in a sequence.
prep
- From south to north of.
- At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- Of a man: having sex with.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- Toward the top of.
adv
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- To or from one's possession or consideration.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- In a positive vertical direction.
- North.
- Against the wind or current.
- To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- Without additional ice.
- Relatively close to the batsman.
verb
- To upload.
- To physically raise or lift.
- To increase the level or amount of.
- To promote.
- To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
noun
noun
- A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
- Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
- A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
- A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
- A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
- A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
verb
noun
- An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
- Any similarly large distance.
- The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
- A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
- The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
- One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
- Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
- Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
noun
- The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- The fruit of a rose.
- The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
verb
- To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
- To inform, to make knowledgeable.
- To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- To use one's hips to bump into someone.
- To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
intj
adj
noun
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- a long ridge or pile
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
verb
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