HOVERING CRAFT

  

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HOVERING CRAFT

Specialty Definition: HOVERING CRAFT

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Transportation

A vehicle that can be supported by a continuously generated cushion of air dependent for its effectiveness on the proximity of the surface over which the vehicle operates. (Brit. Standard 4236, 67, n 1). Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: HOVERING CRAFT

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Books

  • Second International Hovering Craft, Hydrofoil, and Advanced Transit Systems Conference, 17-20 May 1976, Amsterdam : conference papers (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HOVERING CRAFT

Language Translations for "HOVERING CRAFT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

hovercraft (air cushion vehicle, air-cushion conveyor, ground effect machine, ground effect vehicle, hovercraft, surface effect ship), luftpudefartoej (air cushion vehicle, air-cushion vehicle, hovercraft). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hovercraft (air cushion vehicle, air-cushion vehicle, hovercraft), luchtkussenvoertuig (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft), luchtkussenboot (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft, marine air cushion craft, marine hovercraft, seagoing hovercraft). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ilmatyynyalus (hovercraft), ilmatyynyajoneuvo (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft). (various references)

   

French

  

véhicule coussin d'air (hovercraft), aéroglisseur (hovercraft). (various references)

   

German

  

Luftkissengeraet (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft), Luftkissenfahrzeug (hovercraft), LKF (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft), Aerogleiter (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

hovercraft (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft), αεροπροσκεφαλικό πλοίο (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft). (various references)

   

Italian

  

veicolo pneumosostentato (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft), veicolo a cuscino d'aria (air cushion vehicle, air-cushion vehicle, hovercraft, surface effect ship), slittonave (air cushion vehicle, air-cushion vehicle, hovercraft), pneumoveicolo (air cushion vehicle, air-cushion vehicle, hovercraft), aeroscivolante (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

overinghay aftcray

   

Portuguese

  

veículo sobre almofada de ar (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft), aerodeslizador (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hovercraft (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft), vehículo de colchón de aire (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft), vehículo con sustentación por cojín de aire (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft), vehículo con sustentación por aire (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft), aerodeslizador (hovercraft, hydrofoil). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svävfarkost (hovercraft), svävare (air cushion vehicle, air-cushion conveyor, hovercraft), markeffektfarkost (air cushion vehicle, ground-effect machine, hovercraft, surface effect vehicle), luftkuddefarkost (air cushion vehicle, hovercraft). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HOVERING CRAFT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-g-h-i-n-o-r-r-t-v"

-2 letters: overarching.

-3 letters: chartering, hovercraft, overacting, overhating, overrating, recharting, refracting, refraction, vociferant.

-4 letters: anchorite, antechoir, carnivore, cavorting, contriver, cratering, factoring, fathering, firethorn, forgather, fornicate, hectoring, overnight, overtrain, recrating, retracing, terracing, tochering, vectoring.

-5 letters: anchoret, anoretic, anorthic, anterior, antihero, argentic, averring, averting, carrotin, catering, cavorter, charring, charting, cheating, cohering, conative, conferva, contrive, covering, coveting, craftier, crafting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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