Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A machine for propelling an aircraft or boat, consisting of a power-driven shaft with radiating blades that are placed so as to thrust air or water in a desired direction when spinning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. One who, or that which, propels.
- n. A mechanical device, with shaped blades that turn on a shaft, to push against air or water, especially one used to propel an aircraft or boat.
- n. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who, or that which, propels.
- n. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel.
- n. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which propels; in marine engineering, broadly, any contrivance or appliance, as a sail, paddle, oar, paddle-wheel, screw, etc., used for moving vessels floating upon the surface of water, or under the surface; in a more restricted and more generally accepted sense, any instrument or appliance, and especially a screw, used for marine propulsion and actuated by machinery (usually a steam-engine called a marine engine) carried by the vessel so propelled.
- n. A boat or vessel driven by a propeller.
- n. In fishing, a kind of trolling-hook with artificial bait, fitted with wings or flanges to make it spin in the water; a spinning-bait.
- n. See the qualifying words.
- n. In electricity, in the tangential system of traction, the moving part of the system, corresponding to the rotor of an alternator, which is drawn along by the inductive action of the stator-coils between the track and thus affords motive power for the attached cars.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water
Etymologies
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Examples
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The plane has a 74in propeller and a 40-litre Toyota engine and weighs 800kg.
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The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool.
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Phil Harris gets high blood pressure when his propeller is damaged.
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Most of the noise from a propeller is caused by differential pressure at the blade tip that creates micro vortices.
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The propeller is 9ft. in diameter, and 16ft. stroke.
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Don't they call propeller "that site which shall not be mentioned by name"?
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And to check our overall progress on this De Havilland twin propeller aircraft, we are either sitting above some thick British clouds or we’ve taken a wrong turning and are somewhere above Lapland.
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A propeller is a Machinist's Mate, a gear is an Engineman.
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Consequently, there will probably be many more cuts than just one, which were identified as a propeller injury.
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(Interrogators Note: This aircraft was described as a propeller type fighter which carried two pilots).
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