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I've nearly finished making my model aeroplane - I just have to glue the wings on.
The aeroplane had to make a forced landing because one of the engines cut out.
To be honest, the thought of jumping out of a moving aeroplane makes my hair stand on end.
Anything to do with aeroplanes and flying fascinates him.
Model aeroplanes come in pieces which you have to put together.

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aeroplane | American Dictionary

aeroplane
noun[ C ]
Brus/ˈeər·əˌpleɪn/
airplane

aeroplane | Business English

aeroplane
noun[ C ]
UKuk /ˈeərəpleɪn/us
a plane

Examples of aeroplane

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But the raw elevation data often come in an irregular distribution, because they are sampled along routes of ships, aeroplanes, or satellites.
It is contrasted only by the fading sound of an aeroplane.
From an appreciation of bridges, ships and aeroplanes he extrapolates three tenets of good construction: economy of material, structural expression and industrialisation of building.
The story has a theme of departure: a complex of train and underground sounds dissolves to a fading sound of an aeroplane.
As any building is located in (aeroplanes, machinery and so on).
For example, upon boarding an aeroplane the majority of us enter an expert system of which we have no technical knowledge.
There are still some spaces which are off-limits for cellular phones, such as aeroplanes and churches.
So too does the international maritime flag code (although they never did get it to work with aeroplanes).
The direction-to-direction panning capability was very useful when simulating moving such items as trains, cars or aeroplanes.
Warplanes and poison gas contrast inoculations and passenger aeroplanes, a dove of peace faces a hawk of war.
However, the material still maintains a surrogacy relationship with the sonic image of an aeroplane.
If one were to follow the course of the moon far enough by aeroplane, one would even be able to see it on the 27th or the 28th.
The dynamic development is evident in the environmental noises where the complex of train, aeroplane and underground sounds dissolves into the fading sound of an aeroplane.
This relation is surreal because of the unusually low frequency content of the drone, its increase in dynamic level27 and the exaggerated reverberation: the behaviour of the aeroplane is impossible.
These are the overheard sounds of work and play, of aeroplanes, of trains, of factories and of fragments of casual conversation in a variety of settings.
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