Airscrew

Definition: Airscrew

Airscrew

Noun

1. A propeller that rotates to push against air.

Domain	Definitions
Transportation	An airscrew is a screw propeller designed to operate in air. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Airscrew

Synonyms: airplane propeller (n), prop (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Elements of Aerofoil and Airscrew Theory (reference) (more book examples)
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"Airscrew" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Airscrew" is used about 4 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%	4	175,879

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 "airscrew"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		螺旋浆. (various references)

Danish		propel (engine, jet, motor, propeller, thruster). (various references)

Dutch		luchtschroef (propeller). (various references)

French		hélice d'aérodyne, hélice. (various references)

German		Propeller (prop, propeller, screw), Luftschraube (propeller, wind generator, windmill). (various references)

Greek		έλικας (propeller). (various references)

Hebrew		מ�"חף (impulse, propeller). (various references)

Hungarian		légcsavar (propeller, propeller slip, screw). (various references)

Italian		elica (helix, propeller, screw, scroll, ship's propeller). (various references)

Manx		lheean aer. (various references)

Pig Latin		airscreway

Portuguese		tripulação aérea, hélice de aeronave, hélice (helix, propeller, propeller shaft, screw, screw propeller, vane). (various references)

Romanian		elice (propeller, screw). (various references)

Russian		воздушный винт (propeller), пропеллер (propeller, screw). (various references)

Spanish		hélice (blade, control edge, fan blade, helical groove, helices, helix, loading spiral, loading vane, prop, propeller, screw, scroll, spiral, vane). (various references)

Swedish		flygplanspropeller. (various references)

Turkish		uçak pervanesi. (various references)

Ukranian		пропелер (prop, propeller). (various references)

Vietnamese		cánh quạt máy bay. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "airscrew": airscrews. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: aircrews.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-r-r-s-w"
	-1 letter: aircrew, carries, scarier.
	-2 letters: airers, carers, caries, cerias, criers, ericas, racers, racier, raiser, ricers, scarer, sierra, warier, wirers.
	-3 letters: acres, airer, areic, arise, arris, carer, cares, carrs, carse, ceria, cires, craws, crews, crier, cries, erica, escar, racer, races, raise, rares, raser, rawer, rears, resaw, ricer, rices, riser, saice, sawer, scare, screw, serac, serai.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-r-r-s-w"
	+1 letter: airscrews, scrawlier, scrawnier.
	+3 letters: cordwainers, schwarmerei, wisecracker.
	+4 letters: birdwatchers, carriageways, contrariwise, schwarmereis, wisecrackers.
	+5 letters: cordwaineries, watercolorist.
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