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Take The Air

Definition: Take The Air

Take The Air

Verb

1. Take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure; "The lovers held hands while walking"; "We like to walk every Sunday".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Take The Air

DomainDefinition

Mining

A. To measure the ventilating current b. Applied to a ventilating fan as working well, or working poorl. (references)

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Synonym: Take The Air

Synonym: walk (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Take The Air

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Direction

Ascertain one's direction; Noun: s'orienter, see which way the wind blows; box the compass; take the air line.

Journey

Verb: travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk, go out for walk; Noun: have a run; take the air.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Photo Album: Take The Air

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Scene at a Mexican military airport as training planes take the air. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Historic Usage: Take The Air

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Dirigibles able to take the air, being manufactured, repaired or assembled. (reference)

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Use in Literature: Take The Air

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I did not need to go outdoors to take the air, for the atmosphere within had lost none of its freshness.

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Expressions: Take The Air

Expressions using "take the air": take the air line To take the air. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: Take The Air

Language Translations for "take the air"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

levegőzik (to take the air), friss levegőt szív (to take the air). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aketay ethay airay

   

Romanian

  

lua aer. (various references)

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Anagrams: Take The Air

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-k-r-t-t"

-2 letters: hatteria.

-3 letters: arietta, ariette, hektare, hetaera, hetaira, iterate, kithara, theater, theatre, thereat.

-4 letters: aerate, aether, attire, either, hatter, heater, hereat, hitter, karate, ratite, reheat, retake, takahe, tether, threat, tither.

-5 letters: aerie, airth, areae, arete, arhat, atria, attar, earth, eater, ether, haika, hater, heart, hiker, irate, ither, karat, kiter, kithe, krait, rakee, rathe, reata, retia.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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