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Definition: Airway |
AirwayNoun1. A duct that provides ventilation as in mines. 2. A designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another. 3. A commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Law | Any air transport enterprise offering or operating a scheduled international air service. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A device for securing unobstructed passage of air into and out of the lungs during general anesthesia. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Any underground gallery or passage through which a portion of the ventilation passes; i.e., the air is carried. Syn:air course;wind road. (references) |
Transportation | A control area or part of a control area in the form of a corridor, equipped with radio-navigational aids. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Control area or portion thereof established in the form of a corridor equipped with radio navigation aids. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AirwaySynonyms: air duct (n), air lane (n), air passage (n), airline (n), airline business (n), flight path (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: air-line (law, transportation). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's a Hynerian airway seizure caused by very strong emotions (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Objects placed in the mouth can be broken and obstruct the child's airway. (references) | |
Eventually, these tumors may block the airway passage and cause difficulty breathing. (references) | ||
Restoration of airway competence is the objective in the treatment of severe sleep apnea. (references) | ||
Business | Some foreign suppliers may think airway bills are complicated. (references) | |
Economic History | Pakistan | Pakistan Customs authorities require a commercial invoice and a bill of lading (or airway bill). (references) |
Political Economy | EL SALVADOR | A new system implemented in 1998, called "Teledespacho," allows importers and exporters to send their commercial invoices, bills of lading, and airway bills through an electronic link to the Salvadoran customs officer for processing. (references) |
Trade | El Salvador | C. Bill of lading, airway bill or carta de porte. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Airway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Airway" is used about 114 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) | 100% | 114 | 30,294 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "airway": airway company ♦ airway Heights ♦ Airway obstruction ♦ Airway Resistance ♦ irreversible airway obstruction ♦ return airway ♦ victor airway. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
us airway | 17,806 | american airway | 176 |
british airway | 10,749 | virgin atlantic airway | 167 |
air tran airway | 1,951 | british airway flight | 164 |
airway mainline | 823 | ghana airway | 164 |
jet blue airway | 731 | cayman airway | 157 |
thai airway | 706 | us airway vacation | 149 |
south african airway | 706 | airway gill | 145 |
olympic airway | 626 | airway hmy | 145 |
united airway | 434 | kenya airway | 137 |
airway | 335 | qantas airway | 134 |
kuwait airway | 323 | reactive airway disease | 119 |
jet airway | 282 | delta airway | 113 |
all nippon airway | 226 | eva airway | 108 |
virgin airway | 225 | spirit airway | 108 |
us airway airline | 223 | british midland airway | 103 |
world airway | 223 | us airway reservation | 97 |
qatar airway | 219 | cathay pacific airway | 96 |
continental airway | 215 | bangkok airway | 95 |
u s airway | 194 | air airway trans | 91 |
cyprus airway | 181 | us airway express | 88 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "airway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | udhë ajrore. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | въздушна линия (air route, airline), вентилационна шахта (air shaft, downcast, upcast). (various references) | |
Chinese | 导"管. (various references) | |
Czech | letecká linka (air line, airline). (various references) | |
Danish | luftvej (ICAO), luftfartsselskab (air company, airline), luftfartselskab (air company, airline), flyselskab (air company, airline). (various references) | |
Dutch | luchtweg (clearance, ICAO). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aervojo. (various references) | |
Farsi | مسیرجریان هوا, راه هواءی (Skyway). (various references) | |
Finnish | lentoväylä (ICAO). (various references) | |
French | voie aérienne (airroute), route aérienne. (various references) | |
German | AWY, Wetterstrecke, Luftverkehrsunternehmen (air company, airline), Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (airline), Luftstrasse, Luftstraße (Lane), flugroute (air route, Lane). (various references) | |
Greek | εναέριος διάδρομος (ICAO), εταιρία αεροπορικών μεταφορών (air company, airline), αναπνευστική οδός, αεροπορική γραμμή (airline), αεροπορική οδός (ICAO), αεροδιάδρομος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסלול טיס". (various references) | |
Hungarian | szellõzõnyílás (ventage), repülési útvonal (air-route facilities, flight path), légi folyosó (air corridor). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jalan pesawat terbang, gelombang radio. (various references) | |
Italian | compagnia aerea (airline), aerovia (ICAO). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aerosol, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | エアウェー . (various references) | |
Korean | 기도 (INTENTION, Prayer, Praying). (various references) | |
Manx | lhuingys aer (air fleet, airline, armada, armada air), bollagh aeragh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airwayay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | via aérea (airmail), rota aérea (air-highway, skyway), galeria de ventilação, empresa de transporte aéreo (air company, airline). (various references) | |
Romanian | rutã aerianã (air-way), galerie de aeraj (air-way). (various references) | |
Russian | авиалиния (air line, air route, air track, airline, airroute, air-route, air-track, airways). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ventilacija (aeration, ventilation), disajni put. (various references) | |
Spanish | aerovía (air route, airline). (various references) | |
Swedish | luftled (air route, Lane). (various references) | |
Turkish | aydınlık (air shaft, bright, brightly, clear, daylight, enlightenment, high speed, illumination, light, light-well, luminous, radiance, skylight, sunlit, sunny), hava yolu (airline), hava bacası (air shaft, shaft, upcast, upcast shaft, uptake). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вентиляційний штрек, авіаційна компанія, авіалінія (air line). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chiến tranh bằng không quân (air war). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "airway": airways. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "airway": fairway, stairway. (additional references) | |
Words containing "airway": fairways, stairways. (additional references) | |
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"Airway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: airvay, airwair, airwar, Aqrawi, arisay, arway, Auray, earway, Easiway, Eurway, garibay, Hairway, Harway. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "airway" (pronounced e"rwā') |
| 4 | e" r w ā' | fairway, stairway. |
| 3 | -r w ā' | doorway. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-r-w-y" | |
-2 letters: airy, aria, away, awry, raia, raya, wair, wary, wiry. | |
-3 letters: air, awa, raw, ray, ria, rya, war, way, wry, yar, yaw. | |
-4 letters: aa, ai, ar, aw, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-r-w-y" | |
+1 letter: airways, fairway, railway. | |
+2 letters: fairways, railways, stairway, trainway. | |
+3 letters: stairways, trainways, wayfaring. | |
+5 letters: carriageway, straightway, wearability. | |
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