Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sudden, steep climbing turn of an aircraft, executed to alter flight direction and gain altitude simultaneously.
- intransitive verb To execute a chandelle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Aeronautics) an abrupt climbing turn made by an airplane, in which the plane's momentum is used to achieve a higher than normal rate of climb, without stalling the aircraft.
- intransitive verb to perform a chandelle, as of an airplane.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flight maneuver consisting of a steep climbing turn executed to gain altitude while changing direction
- verb climb suddenly and steeply
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lke chandelle, a cup of coffee has become a bit of that for me like her I am also afraid to become addicted and so I drink about one cup a week. usually on sundays.
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La concurrence risque d'être dure et je me demande si le jeu en vaut vraiment la chandelle.
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This book, in fact, which is very fun, and is giving me some awesome ideas on how to use up that paper & ink. chandelle
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I guess the status of a bi-racial girl from the the poor side of town was less worthy of help than “one of our own” who lived over 800 miles away. chandelle
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La lumiere de ta chandelle s'etendra d'avantage...j'en suis certain!
Coming of Age Darren Kuropatwa 2006
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When you are invited to drink, say that you wish you could, but that so little makes you both drunk and sick, que le jeu me vaut pas la chandelle.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Recovering on a reciprocal heading, the Spad pilot added power, climbing into a chandelle to perhaps 5,000 feet heading outbound.
On Yankee Station Nichols, Tillman 1988
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She was either using too much rudder in her chandelle maneuvers or not enough.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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She was either using too much rudder in her chandelle maneuvers or not enough.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
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She was either using too much rudder in her chandelle maneuvers or not enough.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984
qms commented on the word chandelle
The hot shots are flying pellmell
And groundlings aren't able to tell:
Was that trick more nimble than
A flamboyant Immelmann
Or more of a normal chandelle?
June 7, 2017