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Definition: Airfield |
AirfieldNoun1. A place where planes take off and land. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Transportation | A defined area on land or water(including any buildings, installations and equipment)intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and movement of aircraft ; any area in a Member State which is open for commercial air transport operations. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An area of ground prepared and used exclusively for the taking-off and landing of aircraft. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AirfieldSynonyms: field (n), flying field (n), landing field (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Airfield |
| English words defined with "airfield": aerodrome, airdrome, airport, airstrip, auxiliary airfield ♦ flight strip ♦ landing strip ♦ strip ♦ wind tee. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "airfield": advanced landing field, air transport liaison section, aircraft climb corridor, airfield damage repair, AIRPORT ATTENDANT, AIRPORT ELECTRICIAN ♦ declared destination ♦ FLIGHT OPERATIONS SPECIALIST ♦ ground signals ♦ MAINTENANCE MECHANIC ♦ naval forward logistic site ♦ operational aircraft cross-servicing requirement ♦ service engineer, signal area, surface movements. (references) |
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 | Rampart Airfield. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |  | Shares a light moment with Vice Admiral G. Lemonnier, French Naval Deputy to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, at Orly Airfield, Paris, France, in July 1951. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Rear Admiral Francis E.M. Whiting, Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher and U.S. Representative Warren G. Magnuson (of Washington) at the airfield, upon the return of RAdm. Whiting to Adak, 29 January 1944. Wing and engine of a Douglas R5D transport plane is in the left background,. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. Credit: NAVY. |  | Aerial photograph, looking just south of west across the southern side of the atoll, 24 November 1941. Eastern Island, then the site of Midway's airfield, is in the foreground. Sand Island, location of most other base facilities, is across the entrance channel. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Parked at an airfield, circa 1933-1935. This plane is part of the USS Macon (ZRS-5) heavier-than-air group, whose insignia is painted below the cockpit. Credit: NAVY. |  | A U.S. Navy SOC "Seagull" floatplane flies over Wotje Atoll, during the attack on the Japanese airfield there by gunfire from USS Salt Lake City (CV-25) and USS Northampton (CA-26)) and fighters from USS Enterprise (CV-6), 1 February 1942. The original picture caption identifies the burning facilities as an ammunition dump and two fuel dumps. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Winston Churchill and Field Marshall General Montgomery talking at an airfield in Britain. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and his daughter, Mrs. Mary Strawbridge, at Hollandia's Sentani Airfield, Nov. 26, 1961, for a conference in connection with the search for Michael Rockefeller, Gov. Rockefeller's son, who has been missing in southern New Guinea. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 8th Army in Tripoli. Wreckage of Italian hangars and airplanes at Castel Benito Airfield outside Tripoli. The airfield was captured by the British in the Tripoli campaign. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Airfield near San Antonio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Navigational aids, communications equipment, baggage handling and information systems, security equipment, and airfield lighting systems present best sales prospects for foreign companies. (references) | |
Economic History | Marshall Islands | The airfield there also serves as a second national hub for international flights. (references) |
Argentina | A typical maintenance project includes improvements of airfield pavement markings and lighting; utilities and distribution systems (telephone, gas, electricity, sanitation and sewage); fire suppression systems; security equipment (luggage inspection systems, metal detectors, fencing, etc.) and navigational aids (such as beacons, VORs, DME, ILS, and precision approach path indicators - PAPI). (references) | |
India | Following is a list of products that provide opportunities for U.S. companies: communications equipment, weather equipment, baggage handling and information systems, consulting services, security equipment, signage, aerobridges, navigational aids (GPS, ILS, VOR), utilities and power equipment, airfield lighting systems and approach lighting, radar systems, management information systems, and flight information systems. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Pervez Musharraf | Well, this happened at one of the bases which we had provided for logistic support, and this was a routine accident. It had nothing to do with any reaction or any action from any side. It was a routine accident on the airfield. |
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| "Airfield" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.50% of the time. "Airfield" is used about 599 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.5% | 566 | 11,110 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.5% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Total | 100.00% | 599 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "airfield": airfield damage repair ♦ auxiliary airfield ♦ unprepared airfield. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "airfield": anti-airfield. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "airfield"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vliegveld (aerodrome, airdrome), lughawe (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Albanian | aeroport (aerodrome, airdrome, airport), aerodrom i vogël (air stop), fushë aeroplanësh (landing field). (various references) | |
Arabic | مطار (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | аеродрум (aerodrome, airdrome), летище (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Chinese | 飞机场. (various references) | |
Czech | letištì (aerodrome, air field, airdrome, airport, flying field). (various references) | |
Danish | lufthavn (airport), flyveplads (aerodrome, airport). (various references) | |
Dutch | vliegveld (aerodrome, airdrome, airport), vlieghaven (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aerodromo. (various references) | |
Farsi | فرودگاه (Airport, Landingfield). (various references) | |
Finnish | lentokenttä (aerodrome, airport). (various references) | |
French | aérodrome (air field, airdrome). (various references) | |
Frisian | fleanfjild (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
German | Flugplatz (aerodrome, airport), Flugfeld (aerodrome, airport). (various references) | |
Greek | αεροδρόμιο (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | aeroport (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Hungarian | repülõtér (aerodrome, airdrome, airport, drome), repülőtér (airport, flying field, flying ground), repülôtér (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Icelandic | flugvöllur (aerodrome, airdrome). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lapangan terbang (airport). (various references) | |
Italian | aeroscalo (aerodrome, airport), aeroporto (airport), aerodromo (aerodrome, airdrome), aeròdromo, campo di aviazione, campo d'aviazione (aerodrome, airport). (various references) | |
Korean | 비행장. (various references) | |
Manx | pairk aer. (various references) | |
Norwegian | flyplass (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airfielday.(various references) | |
Polish | lotnisko (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Portuguese | aeródromo (aerodrome, airdrome, landing ground). (various references) | |
Romanian | aeroport (aerodrome, airdrome, airport), aerodrom (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Russian | аэродром (aerodrome, airdrome, airport, landing field). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | aerodrom (aerodrome, airport), uzletište za avione. (various references) | |
Spanish | aeropuerto (aerodrome, airdrome, airport), campo de aviación (air field). (various references) | |
Swedish | flygfält (aerodrome, airdrome, airport, field, landing field). (various references) | |
Tagalog | lápagan ng eroplano (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Turkish | uçak pisti (airstrip, landing field, piston plunger, runway), pist (cinder path, course, floor, landing field, path, ring, runway, scat, shoo, strip, tarmac, track), havaalanı (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trường bay, sân bay (aerodrome). (various references) | |
Welsh | awyrenfa. (various references) | |
Zulu | inkundla yezindiza (aerodrome, airdrome, airport). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "airfield": airfields. (additional references) | |
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"Airfield" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: airiel, Amisfield, Bifield, Darfield, Sarfield, Tiffield. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "airfield" (pronounced e"rfē'ld) |
| 4 | -f ē' l d | backfield, battlefield, Brownfield, canfield, Chesterfield, cornfield, goldfield, Greenfield, hayfield, infield, minefield, outfield. |
| 3 | -ē' l d | windshield. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: deliria. | |
-2 letters: afield, ariled, derail, dialer, failed, faired, fardel, ferial, flared, laired, railed, redial, relaid, rifled. | |
-3 letters: afire, aider, ailed, aired, alder, ariel, deair, drail, fader, fared, farle, felid, feral, feria, field, filar, filed, filer, fired, flair, flare, flied, flier, frail, fried, ideal, idler, iliad, irade, lader, laird, liard, lidar, lifer, radii, redia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: airfields, airlifted, clarified. | |
+2 letters: grainfield. | |
+3 letters: fibrillated, grainfields, infiltrated, requalified, unclarified. | |
+4 letters: defibrillate, differential, familiarised, familiarized, federalizing, lifeguarding, prequalified, reclassified. | |
+5 letters: defibrillated, defibrillates, defibrillator, deformalizing, differentials, overamplified, overqualified, refundability. | |
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