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Definition: Airstrip |
AirstripNoun1. An airfield without normal airport facilities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Transportation | A strip of land cleared for the take-off and landing of aircraft. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A strip of ground prepared for occasional air traffic, often merely a rough track for emergency landing. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AirstripSynonyms: flight strip (n), landing strip (n), strip (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Airstrip |
| English words defined with "airstrip": flare path. (references) |
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 | One of the hazards of heavy aircraft on remote airstrips The B-17 was a little too heavy for this airstrip.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | One of the hazards of heavy aircraft on remote airstrips The B-17 was a little too heavy for this airstrip.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | On the airstrip at Oliktok Point - wind blowing flag straight out.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Small planes on an airstrip in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. |
 | Crew members of a Marine torpedo bomber squadron lugging their own bags across the Okinawa airstrip as they arrive to start operations against the enemy] / Official U.S. Marine Corps p.Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Corporal William Beall.. | ||
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Economic History | Armenia | Airports: 12 total, 10 usable; 6 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m; 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 2 with runways 1,060-2,439 m; note: a C-130 can land on a 1,060-m airstrip. (references) |
Solomon Islands | Although U.S. forces landed on Guadalcanal virtually unopposed in August 1942, they were soon engaged in a bloody fight for control of the islands' airstrip, which the U.S. forces named Henderson Field. (references) | |
Human Rights | Somalia | On May 10, a landmine explosion near Ballidogle airstrip killed a man. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | For example, in April Sudanese Air Force bombers attacked an airstrip in the Nuba Mountains and narrowly missed hitting a plane carrying Bishop Macram Max Gassis of El Obeid Diocese in the central part of the country. (references) |
Worker Rights | Afghanistan | There have been reports that the Taliban forced prisoners to perform construction work at Kandahar prison and that the Taliban used forced labor after its takeover of the Shomali plains area in the summer of 1999. There were credible reports that Masood forced Taliban prisoners to work on road and airstrip construction projects under life-threatening conditions (such as requiring them to dig in mined areas). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Airstrip" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Airstrip" is used about 77 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% | 77 | 37,929 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
airstrip | 5 |
airstrip sale | 2 |
airstrip back country idaho | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "airstrip"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pistë zbritjeje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مهبط الطائرات, محكم السد (airtight, hermetic), خط الاقلاع والهبوط للطائرات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | временно летище, бетонна писта. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 简"机场. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | startovací a přistávací dráha. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | landingsfelt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | niet verharde landingsbaan, landingsstrook (landing lane, landing strip, strip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lentotoimintaan käytettävä maa-alue. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aérosurface, aéroport (airdrome, airfield, airport), piste d'atterrissage, piste (air field), hermétique (airtight, air-tight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Befehlslandeplatz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λωρίδα απο-προσγειώσεων, δρόμοσ προσγειώσεωσ αεροπλάνων, δρόμοσ απογειώσεωσ αεροπλάνων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מסלול "מרא" (runway, tarmac). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hevenyészett felszállóhely, felszállóhely. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pista d'atterraggio, pista (career, clue, course, main ride, manege, mechanized trail, racetrack, ride, ring, road, route, runway, scent, slope, speedway, strip, track, trail, way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airstripay faixa de aterragem (landing lane, landing strip, strip). (various references) летная полоса, посадочная площадка (landing field, landing ground). (various references) pista za poletanje i sletanje. (various references) pista de aterrizaje (runway). (various references) start- och landningsbana (landing strip, strip). (various references) uçak pisti (airfield, landing field, piston plunger, runway), küçük havaalanı, iniş pisti. (various references) злітно-посадочна смуга (air strip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "airstrip": airstrips. (additional references) | |
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"Airstrip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aalstreep, Airtrak, Arestrup, vilstrup. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: rapist, spirit, tapirs. | |
-3 letters: airts, arris, astir, atrip, pairs, paris, parrs, parts, pitas, prats, sirra, sitar, spait, spirt, sprat, sprit, stair, stirp, strap, stria, strip, tapir, tapis, tarps, tarsi, tipis, traps, trips. | |
-4 letters: airs, airt, aits, arts, iris, pair, parr, pars, part, past, pats, pias, pita, pits, prat, raps, rapt, rasp, rats, rias. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: airstrips. | |
+2 letters: inspirator, scriptoria. | |
+3 letters: apriorities, imprimaturs, inspirators, inspiratory, interparish, portraitist, respiration, transpiring. | |
+4 letters: hairsplitter, improvisator, partitioners, parturitions, patriarchies, pericarditis, periphrastic, perspiration, portraitists, prehistorian, propitiators, proteinurias, purificators, repartitions, repristinate, reprivatizes, respirations, vibraharpist. | |
+5 letters: antipruritics, chiropractics, corporalities, corporativism, hairsplitters, improvisatore, improvisatori, improvisators, improvisatory, participators, particularise, particularism, particularist, perspirations, polarimetries, practitioners, precipitators, prehistorians, prehistorical, preindustrial, prematurities, proprietaries, repatriations, repristinated, repristinates, stratigraphic, supercritical, transcription, transpiercing, transpiration, vibraharpists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 72 73 74 72 69 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. .-. ... - .-. .. .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01110010 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i r s t r i p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0072 0073 0074 0072 0069 0070 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3575848586847582 |
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