Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a weight less than that of the air displaced. Used of certain aircraft.
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- adjective relating to a balloon or other aircraft that flies because it weighs less than the air it displaces
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Examples
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We at the B.H.A. look forward to working with NLHS members in the future to bring a more complete knowledge of our residents as they operated portions of the lighter-than-air program in Lakehurst.
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She scanned the local skies for the lighter-than-air craft she would commandeer for Bordeaux.
The Sky-What Limit? strannikov 2012
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Matt Phelan's lighter-than-air vignettes seem to float between earth and sky, capturing the emotional dynamics of the story, from silly to scary to sad, and from hostile to hilarious to happy.
'Flora's Very Windy Day,' a new children's book by Jeanne Birdsall Post 2010
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For more information on airships and the lighter-than-air program, please visit the website of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society.
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Matt Phelan's lighter-than-air vignettes seem to float between earth and sky, capturing the emotional dynamics of the story, from silly to scary to sad, and from hostile to hilarious to happy.
'Flora's Very Windy Day,' a new children's book by Jeanne Birdsall Post 2010
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Oppel's airships use a lighter-than-air gas called hydrium in place of the real-world helium, and they've been employed so effectively that no one has ever felt the need to invent the airplane.
We have a winner! seattleshadow 2009
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Kay, with his lighter-than-air touch, offers a broader critique that views Krugman and Cochrane, Deepwater and Freshwater, as part of the same logic-chopping species: worshippers at the altar of consistency and undoubtedly of confirmation bias, too.
Robert Teitelman: Appreciating John Kay Robert Teitelman 2011
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Kay, with his lighter-than-air touch, offers a broader critique that views Krugman and Cochrane, Deepwater and Freshwater, as part of the same logic-chopping species: worshippers at the altar of consistency and undoubtedly of confirmation bias, too.
Robert Teitelman: Appreciating John Kay Robert Teitelman 2011
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Would it be the ultralight bones (maybe composed of a special magic material) and the helium sacs (maybe filled with a magic lighter-than-air gas instead)?
mrissa: Addition, subtraction, numini...tion? mrissa 2010
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That's the context in which you should read today's lighter-than-air offer: LivingSocial is basically throwing money at the customer-acquisition problem.
LivingSocial evokes dot-com boom with $20-for-$10 Amazon deal Rob Pegoraro 2011
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