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"AIRWAYS" is a plural of: airway. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Tubes that carry air into and out of the lungs. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The respiratory system is the biological system of any organism that engages in gaseous exchange. Even trees have respiratory systems, taking in carbon dioxide and emitting oxygen.The human respiratory system consists of:
The alveoli and bronchioles form the lungs. Air is moved in and out of the lungs by the movements of the rib cage and diaphragm, which expand the lungs to draw in air and compress the lungs to drive out air. A simple model of how the lungs are inflated can be built from a bell jar.
- nasal passages, in which air is moistened and in which the sense of smell operates
- the pharynx, a common area in the back of the mouth through which air, food and drink passes
- the larynx, or voicebox
- the trachea, an air tube that connects with the bronchi
- bronchi, tubes that carry air to and from the lungs
- bronchioles, branches of the bronchi which distribute air to the alveoli
- alveoli, terminal sacs in which gas exchange occurs
There are four basic measured lung volumes:
From these volumes, several important capacities are also calculated:
- The tidal volume (TV): the volume of air an individual is normally breathing in and out.
- The inspiratory reserve volume (IRV): the maximum volume of air that can be inspired in addition to the tidal volume.
- The expiratory reserve volume (ERV): the maximum volume of air that can be expired in addition to the normally expired air.
- The residual volume (RV): the amount of air that is always in the lungs and can never be expired (i.e.: the amount of air that stays in the lungs after maximum expiration).
- The total lung capacity (TLC): the total volume of the lung (i.e.: the volume of air in the lungs after maximum inspiration).
TLC = IRV + TV + ERV + RV
- The functional residual capacity (FRC): the amount of air that stays in the lungs during normal breathing.
FRC = ERV + RVSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Respiratory system."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The trachea, or windpipe, is a tube extending from the larynx to the bronchi in mammals, and from the pharynx to the syrinx in birds, carrying air to the lungs. It is lined with ciliated cells which push particles out and reinforced with cartilage rings.
In ill or injured persons, the natural airway formed by the trachea may be damaged or closed off. Intubation is the medical procedure of inserting an artificial tube into the trachea to permit breathing. See also choking.
Diseases of the trachea include:
- Tracheobronchitis
- Tracheomalacia
- Tracheal fracture
- Airway obstruction
- Malignancy
In insects, each segment of the body has a pair of spiracles, each of which has a trachea behind it. These tracheae branch and supply air to the tissues. Insects do not carry oxygen in their blood, as do vertebrates; this limits their size.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trachea."
Synonym: AIRWAYSSynonym: Air routes. (additional references) |
Crosswords: AIRWAYS |
| English words defined with "AIRWAYS": choking. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AIRWAYS": air intake, air leakage ♦ bleeder entries ♦ controlled splitting ♦ emt-paramedic ♦ Fractals ♦ honeycomb lung ♦ mine ventilation system ♦ natural air crossing ♦ Respiratory Therapy, retreating longwall, return man ♦ shock losses, splits, suction fan, swinging-vane anemometer ♦ Transaction Processing Facility, trolley locomotive, two intakes. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Corynebacterium diphtheriae causes Diphtheria that affects the upper respiratory tract, where an inflammatory exudate causes severe obstruction to the breathing airways, and sometimes suffocation. Credit: CDC. |  | South African Airways plane. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Juan T. Trippe, president of Pan-American Airways, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Fabian Bachrach. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Concentration / Pan American World Airways System, Atlantic Division, La Guardia Field, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. A giant of the airways poises for flight. The four powerful engines of a YB-17 bomber are warmed up before takeoff at Langley Field, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Department of Agriculture plant quarantine inspectors examining Pan American Airways plane from Mexico on its arrival at the Glendale Airport, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Transpacific flight--It's a small world by Pan American Airways / Lawler. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hawaii by flying clipper--Pan American Airways System. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fly to the Caribbean by clipper. Pan American World Airways / III von Arenburg. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Airplane 3" by Warisara N. Commentary: "The airplane of Thai Airways." | "Boeing 757" by Richard Varga Commentary: "Boeing 757 in the British airways livery at Ferihegy airport at the moment "pushing up"." |
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 | Exhale; exhalation; exhaling; breathe; breath; outbreath; breathing; lungs; respire; respiration; air; airways; mouth. |
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Health | Your airways narrow or become smaller. (references) | |
Bronchodilators help open narrowed airways. (references) | ||
Inhaled air travels through the airways to the alveoli. (references) | ||
Business | They include Air France, British Airways, Lufthansa, AOM, Air Liberté and Corsair. (references) | |
In 1999, Air France was looking for new alliances in order to compete against its main European rivals, British Airways and Lufthansa. (references) | ||
Other major airlines that fly to the U.S. are British Airways, KLM, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, Swiss Air, Lufthansa, and Kuwait Airways. (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | Olympic Airways the national carrier increased by 6.7 percent the number of its passengers. (references) |
Greece | The government owns or controls all public utilities, and the national airline, Olympic Airways. (references) | |
Kenya | The privatization of Kenya Airways in 1996 has yielded export opportunities, including the sale of new jets. (references) | |
Political Economy | Kuwait | All but two of the unions, the Bank Workers' Union and the Kuwait Airways Workers' Union, are affiliated with the Kuwait Trade Union Federation (KTUF). (references) |
Trade | Greece | Until recently the Greek flag carrier, Olympic Airways, had a monopoly in the provision of ground services to other airlines. (references) |
Qatar | Import and distribution of alcoholic beverages is highly restricted and is entirely controlled, as of April 1, 2000, by the Qatar Distribution Company (QDC), an affiliate of Qatar Airways. (references) | |
Travel | Cyprus | Cyprus Airways is the national carrier of Cyprus. (references) |
Ghana | Ghana Airways currently offers direct flights from Accra to New York and Baltimore (BWI). (references) | |
Qatar | Air Transport: In addition to the recently established Qatar Airways, Gulf Air services Qatar. (references) | |
Women | Ghana | The CHRAJ also ordered Ghana Airways to reinstate the dismissed flight attendant, reimburse her for all lost wages and benefits, and pay her 1 year's salary as compensation. (references) |
Ghana | In February in response to a 1999 complaint filed against Ghana Airways by the Association of Flight Attendants-Ghana on behalf of a flight attendant, the CHRAJ ruled that Ghana Airways' provision that female flight attendants would be eligible for maternity leave only after completing 3 years of service amounted to sexual discrimination and must be deleted from the flight attendants' contracts. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Kuwait | The Bank Workers Union and the Kuwait Airways Workers Union, consisting of approximately 4,500 workers, are independent of the KTUF. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AIRWAYS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 80.68% of the time. "AIRWAYS" is used about 729 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 (plural) | 80.68% | 588 | 10,794 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.04% | 139 | 26,913 |
| Noun (common) | 0.27% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 729 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Qantas Airways Limited | Hong Kong | Cathay Pacific Airways Limited |
| Japan | All Nippon Airways Co Ltd (ANA) | Thailand | Thai Airways International Public Company Limited |
| United Kingdom | British Airways Plc | USA | US Airways Group Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "AIRWAYS": british airways ♦ British Airways Pension ♦ Quantas Empire Airways Ltd ♦ Reactive Airways ♦ the airways. 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 |
us airways.com | 397 |
british airways.com | 279 |
air tran airways.com | 43 |
airways.gr olympic | 25 |
airways.com kuwait | 20 |
airways.com ghana | 18 |
airways.com s u | 14 |
airways.com qatar | 6 |
airways.com mainline | 2 |
airways.com proteus | 2 |
airways.com kosova | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AIRWAYS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | خطوط الطيران البريطانية (british airways). (various references) | |
Danish | strømningsmodstand i luftvejene (airway resistance, airways resistance), oevre luftveje (upper airways), modstanden i luftvejene (airway resistance, airways resistance). (various references) | |
Dutch | luchtwegen en slokdarm (upper airways), bronchospasmus (bronchial spasm, bronchospasm, twitchy airways), bronchospasme (bronchospasm). (various references) | |
French | voies aérodigestives (upper airways), spasme des voies respiratoires (twitchy airways), petites voies aériennes (small airways), lignes aériennes britanniques (british airways). (various references) | |
German | Luftverkehrslinien. (various references) | |
Greek | αναπνευστικές και πεπτικές οδοί (upper airways). (various references) | |
Italian | vie aerodigestive (upper airways), resistenza del tratto respiratorio (airway resistance, airways resistance), piccole vie aeree (small airways), irritabilità bronchiale (twitchy airways). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 英国航空 (British Airways), ブリッジ回路 (bloomers, blue, blue backs, Blue Bird, blue book, blue boy, blue chip, blue day, blue film, Blue Impulse, blue Monday, Blue Ribbon, blue sex, blue train, blueberry, blue-black, blue-collar worker, blueglass, blues, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, bridge circuit, brilliant, brilliant cut, British Airways, British Columbia, broom, Brussels, Bulgaria, bull, Burkina Faso, childpornography), homosexual, shops where girls' uniforms and underwear are resold to dirty old men, sleeping train), 大韓航空 (Korean Airways). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいかんこうくう (Korean Airways), ブリティッシュエアウェイズ (British Airways), えいこくこうくう (British Airways). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airwaysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vias aerodigestivas (upper airways). (various references) | |
Romanian | canal (canal, channel, conduit, ditch, duct, flume, Fosse, gut, gutter, hose, jet, sewer, sound, the airways, trough). (various references) | |
Russian | авиалиния (air line, air route, air track, airline, airroute, air-route, air-track, airway). (various references) | |
Spanish | vías aerodigestivas (upper airways), bronchios contraíbles (twitchy airways). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AIRWAYS": fairways, stairways. (additional references) | |
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"AIRWAYS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: airvay, airwair, Aqrawi, arway, Eurway, garways, Hairway. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AIRWAYS" (pronounced e"rwā'z) |
| 5 | e" r w ā' z | fairways, stairways. |
| 4 | -r w ā' z | doorways. |
| 3 | -w ā' z | alleyways, always, anyways, byways, Castaways, causeways, driveways, edgeways, folkways, foodways, freeways, gateways, getaways, giveaways, hallways, highways, lengthways, outweighs, pathways, railways, roadways, runaways, runways, sideways, subways, superhighways, walkways, waterways. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-r-s-w-y" | |
-1 letter: airway. | |
-2 letters: arias, raias, rayas, wairs. | |
-3 letters: airs, airy, aria, away, awry, raia, raws, raya, rays, rias, ryas, sari, sway, wair, wars, wary, ways, wiry, yaws, ywis. | |
-4 letters: aas, air, ais, ars, awa, ays, ras, raw, ray, ria, rya, saw, say, sir, sri, war, was, way, wis, wry, yar, yaw. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, ar, as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-r-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: fairways, railways, stairway. | |
+2 letters: stairways, trainways. | |
+4 letters: straightway. | |
+5 letters: carriageways, straightaway. | |
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