Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An airplane operated by an airline and adapted for carrying passengers.
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- noun A
passenger -carrying aircraft , especially one of afleet operated by anairline .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a commercial airplane that carries passengers
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Examples
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You will probably have a comfortable flight, many people believe that an airliner is a sealed tube with no fresh air available to the passengers.
The Flu in Mexico 2009
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The FAA and most other governments mandate that at least 50% of the air in an airliner is fresh at all times.
The Flu in Mexico 2009
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You will probably have a comfortable flight, many people believe that an airliner is a sealed tube with no fresh air available to the passengers.
The Flu in Mexico 2009
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The FAA and most other governments mandate that at least 50% of the air in an airliner is fresh at all times.
The Flu in Mexico 2009
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Passengers in the U.S. already feel that getting on an airliner is as safe as "taking an escalator at the shipping mall," said Charles Hogeman, a senior training official at Air Line Pilots Association.
Experts Report Gains in Turboprop Safety Andy Pasztor 2010
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The FAA and most other governments mandate that at least 50% of the air in an airliner is fresh at all times.
The Flu in Mexico 2009
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You will probably have a comfortable flight, many people believe that an airliner is a sealed tube with no fresh air available to the passengers.
The Flu in Mexico 2009
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The boom in airliner orders and new generation advanced aircraft, flight and control avionics, navigation, power distribution, engines and air traffic control systems as well as profusion of high speed rail facing similar fail-safe, redundancy, communications and safety requirements, not to mention rising global demand for efficient power generating equipment, are helping push electronics content to new highs.
Smartphones, Tablets Put A Bid Under Intel, T.I., Linear Tech, Analog Devices Rick Whittington 2010
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The FAA and most other governments mandate that at least 50% of the air in an airliner is fresh at all times.
The Flu in Mexico 2009
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That the plotters apparently weren't targeting a passenger airliner is a departure from the strategy many terror groups use to maximize civilian casualties.
Bomb Makers Plotted Blasts Over U.S. Adam Entous 2010
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