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Definitions: Airlift |
AirliftNoun1. Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are blocked). Verb1. Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means: "Food is airlifted into Bosnia". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AirliftSynonym: lift (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Navigation | Flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift. |
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Crosswords: Airlift |
| English words defined with "airlift": Berlin airlift ♦ clay ♦ lifeline, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "airlift": aeromedical evacuation control center, aeromedical evacuation operations officer, air transport allocations board, airlift sampler ♦ Drive Point Profiler. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Airlift a la Carte (1971) | |
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 | Staff Sgt. Glen Garlick from the156th Airlift Squadron. |  | C-130 out of the 37th Airlift Squadron, and 86th Airlift Wing. |
 | 10/23/00 - TAN SON NHAT, Vietnam (AFPN) -- Master Sgt. Robert Parris (left), Tech. Sgt. M.F. Deatcher and Staff Sgt. David Bivens (right), from the 517th Airlift Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, unload humanitarian relief supplies here. |  | Members of the 86th Airlift Wing Honor Guard carry the remains of fallen sailors from the USS Cole out of a C-17 Globemaster III at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Oct.13. The Navy destroyer was in the port of Aden, Yemen, when the incident occurred. (Photo b. |
 | A C-130 aircraft from the 36th Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan, undergoes a complete interior and exterior inspection at the 374th Maintenance Squadron/Refurbishment Flight there. The aircraft is being inspected for corrosion, deteriorating parts. |  | Loadmasters from the 36th Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan, push out cartons of humanitarian supplies from a C-130 Hercules Dec. 12 during this year's Christmas Drop. Andersen Air Force Base organizes and sponsors the annual event that helps the. |
 | Retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen, known as the Candy Bomber during the Berlin Airlift after World War II, writes a message Dec. 12 to the people of the Micronesian Islands who were receiving cartons of humanitarian supplies during this year's Christm. |  | C-141s can airlift combat forces, equipment and supplies. |
 | Three hundred Rangers from the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. , jump from a C-17 aircraft assigned to the 15th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., on Aug. 9, 2001, as the feature activity of a five-day convention. The conventio. | ||
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Business | Until May 1949, West Berlin was kept supplied only by an Allied airlift. (references) | |
Economic History | Cambodia | A US-funded airlift of ammunition and rice ended when Congress refused additional aid for Cambodia. (references) |
Sudan | In the 1980s, the U.S. worked with the Sudanese Government to upgrade equipment with special emphasis on airlift capacity and logistics. (references) | |
Eritrea | That same year, however, a massive airlift of Soviet arms to Ethiopia enabled the Ethiopian Army to regain the initiative and forced the EPLF to retreat to the bush. (references) | |
Political Economy | Western Sahara | A group of 185 POW's was repatriated to Morocco in a humanitarian airlift conducted under ICRC auspices in November 1995. In April 1997, Polisario leaders offered to release 85 Moroccan POW's as a good will gesture during U.N. envoy Baker's first meetings in Tindouf, but Morocco and the Polisario could not agree on the conditions of their release. (references) |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We are prepositioning more heavy equipment in Europe to help us cope with attacks with little warning, and greatly strengthening our airlift and sealift capabilities. |
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| "Airlift" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.38% of the time. "Airlift" is used about 84 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) | 77.38% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.67% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.95% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 84 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "airlift": airlift capability ♦ airlift exercise ♦ airlift requirement ♦ Berlin airlift. Additional references. | |
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| 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 "airlift"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | авиотранспорт, принасяне по въздуха на припаси, пневматичен кран. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 空运. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vzdušný most (air bridge, air lift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | luchtbrug (air bridge, air-lift, enclosed walkway, walkway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aerponto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خطحمل ونقل هواءی , بوسیله ء هواپیماحمل ونقل کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ilmasilta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pont aérien (air bridge, air lift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Luftbrücke. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αερογέφυρα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "טס. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | légi szállítás (air carriage, air conveyance, air delivery, air movement, air transport, lift), légi híd, drótkötélpálya (cableway, flying fox, funicular railway, overhead carrier, telpher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengangkutan lewat udara. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ponte aereo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 공중수송. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airliftay transporte aéreo (air transport), transportador aéreo (aerial transporter, overhead carrier, overhead runway, overhead truck, runway). (various references) воздушные перевозки, аэролифт, авиационный транспорт, подвесная канатная дорога, пневматический подъемник (airhoist, air-hoist). (various references) vazdušni most (air bridge). (various references) puente aéreo (air bridge, air shuttle). (various references) luftbro (air bridge). (various references) uçakla taşımak, uçakla taşıma, hava köprüsü (air bridge). (various references) перевозити повітрям. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "airlift": airlifted, airlifting, airlifts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "airlift": chairlift. (additional references) | |
Words containing "airlift": chairlifts. (additional references) | |
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"Airlift" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arlit, Ayclife, Carileff, faircliff, Migralift. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "airlift" (pronounced e"rli'ft) |
| 4 | -l i' f t | facelift, forklift, shoplift, uplift. |
| 3 | -i' f t | makeshift, spendthrift. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-i-l-r-t" | |
-2 letters: afrit, filar, flair, flirt, frail, litai, trail, trial. | |
-3 letters: airt, alif, alit, aril, fail, fair, farl, fart, fiar, fiat, fila, flat, flit, frat, frit, ilia, lair, lari, lati, liar, lift, lira, liri, raft, rail, rial, rift, tail, tali, tirl. | |
-4 letters: aft, ail, air, ait, alt, arf, art, far, fat, fil, fir, fit, lar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: airlifts. | |
+2 letters: airlifted, chairlift, fragility, frailties, laticifer. | |
+3 letters: airlifting, artificial, chairlifts, fibrillate, filtrating, filtration, flirtation, floriation, friability, frictional, fritillary, infiltrate, laticifers, trifoliate. | |
+4 letters: certifiable, certifiably, facilitator, familiarity, farcicality, felicitator, fibrillated, fibrillates, filtrations, flirtations, flirtatious, floriations, formability, formalistic, formalities, fragilities, franklinite, fratricidal, fritillaria, frugalities, inferential, infiltrated, infiltrates, infiltrator, informality, interfacial, interfamily, rectifiable, reinflating, reinflation, trifluralin, vitrifiable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 72 6C 69 66 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. .-. .-.. .. ..-. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01110010 01101100 01101001 01100110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i r l i f t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0072 006C 0069 0066 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35758478757286 |
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