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Definitions: Sailplane |
SailplaneNoun1. Aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces. Verb1. Fly a plane without an engine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Transportation | A glider designed to utilize only atmospheric currents for sustained free flight. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SailplaneSynonyms: glider (n), soar (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sailplane |
| Specialty definitions using "sailplane": to soar. (references) |
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| "Sailplane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sailplane" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
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 |
sailplane | 243 |
builder home sailplane | 15 |
northeast sailplane | 10 |
directory sailplane | 7 |
sailplane sale | 7 |
sailplane ultralight | 6 |
kit sailplane | 6 |
sailplane manufacturer | 5 |
model sailplane | 5 |
electric mini rc sailplane | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sailplane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | planer. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безмоторен самолет (glider), планер (glider). (various references) | |
Czech | vìtroò (glider). (various references) | |
Danish | svævefly. (various references) | |
Dutch | zweefvliegtuig (glider), zeilvliegtuig (glider, hang glider, hang-glider). (various references) | |
Esperanto | glisilo (glider). (various references) | |
Finnish | purjelentokone. (various references) | |
French | planeur. (various references) | |
German | Segelflugzeug (glider). (various references) | |
Greek | ανεμόπτερο (glider, hang-glider). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vitorlázó repülőgép. (various references) | |
Italian | veleggiatore (glider). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 滑空機 (glider), 滑"機 (glider). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かっくうき (glider), かっしょうき (glider). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailplanesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | planador (glider). (various references) | |
Russian | планер (glider, sail-plane). (various references) | |
Spanish | planeador (glider). (various references) | |
Swedish | segelflygplan (glider). (various references) | |
Turkish | planörle uçmak, planör (glider). (various references) | |
Ukranian | планер (glider). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sailplane": sailplaned, sailplaner, sailplaners, sailplanes. (additional references) | |
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"Sailplane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sevillana, Sevillano, Silglaze. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: splenial. | |
-2 letters: ainsell, alpines, paellas, paesani, pineals, salpian, spaniel, splenia. | |
-3 letters: aliens, alines, allies, alpine, apneal, apneas, elains, espial, lanais, lapels, lapins, lianas, lianes, lienal, lineal, lipase, nasial, paeans, paella, paesan, paisan, palais, paleal, pallia, panels, penial, pensil, pineal, plains, planes, salina, saline, salpae, silane, spinal, spinel, spline. | |
-4 letters: aisle, alane, alans, alias, alien, aline, anile, anils, anise, anlas, ansae, apian, apnea, aspen, elain, elans, ileal, lanai, lanes, lapel, lapin, lapis, lapse, leans, leaps, lenis, liana, liane, liens, lines, lisle, nails, napes, nasal, neaps, nills, nipas, paean, pails, pains, paisa, paise, palea, pales, palls, panel, panes, peals, peans, peins, penal, penis, pians, pilea, piles, pills, pinas, pines, plain, plane, plans, pleas, plena, plies, salal, salep, salpa, sepal, sepia, slain, slipe, snail, sneap, snell, snipe, spail, spale, spall, spean, speil, spell, spiel, spile, spill, spine. | |
-5 letters: aals, ails, ains, alae, alan, alas, ales, alls, alps, anal, anas, anes, anil, anis, ansa, apes, apse, asea, elan, ells, ilea, ills, isle, lain, lane, laps, lase, leal, lean, leap, leas, leis, lens, lien, lies, line, lins, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, nail, nape, naps, neap, nill, nils, nipa, nips, pail, pain, pale, pall, pals, pane, pans, pase, peal, pean, peas, pein, pens, pial, pian, pias, pies, pile, pill, pina, pine, pins, plan, plea, plie, sail, sain, sale, sall, salp, sane, seal, sell, sial, sill, sine, sipe, slap, slip, snap, snip, spae, span, spin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: sailplaned, sailplaner, sailplanes, tailplanes. | |
+2 letters: sailplaners. | |
+3 letters: appellations, palatialness, planetesimal. | |
+4 letters: planetesimals. | |
+5 letters: antiseptically, megalopolitans, palatialnesses, palletizations, phenylalanines, pleonastically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 69 6C 70 6C 61 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .. .-.. .--. .-.. .- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101001 01101100 01110000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a i l p l a n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0069 006C 0070 006C 0061 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536775788278678071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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