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# aeroplane

«aeroplane» in Mova's school dictionary: **A flying vehicle with wings and one or more engines that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an aeroplane, aeroplanes)

### meaning for a pupil

(UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) A flying vehicle with wings and one or more engines that carries people or goods through the air; a plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aeroplane/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday and school word in the UK and Commonwealth for «plane»; in the USA and Canada it is «airplane». Appears in stories about travel, in science about forces (lift, thrust, drag) and in maths (an aeroplane flies 800 km per hour). Phrases: «by aeroplane», «a paper aeroplane», «get on an aeroplane».

### examples

- We flew to Spain in an aeroplane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aeroplane/#x1)
- Let's make paper aeroplanes! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aeroplane/#x2)
- The aeroplane took off from the runway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aeroplane/#x3)
- An aeroplane flies at about 900 kilometres an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aeroplane/#x4)
- The aeroplane has 180 seats in 30 rows of 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aeroplane/#x5)
- I watched the aeroplanes landing at the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aeroplane/#x6)

### note

Countable; «an aeroplane» (starts with a vowel sound). Spelling: UK «aeroplane», US «airplane»; both shorten to «plane». In maths: distance = speed × time (an aeroplane at 800 km/h for 3 hours flies 2,400 km).

### In the corpora

- [The war brought new machines such as tanks, aeroplanes, submarines and machine guns, which made it far deadlier than earlier wars.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/11/)
- [Most meteors glow and burn out between about 70 and 120 kilometres up, far above aeroplanes and clouds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/8/)
- [On 17 December 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled flight in an aeroplane; it lasted 12 seconds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/9/)
- [The Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aeroplane» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aeroplane/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.