Definitions
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- adjective Fitted with a
propeller or propellers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Industrial wind turbines, the fetish objects of the green-minded, those sleek, white, propellered and purportedly eco-friendly energy collectors that one might have seen dotting the desert outside Palm Springs, and which may soon be sprouting out of Nantucket Sound.
'W.E.,' About Royals, Is a Messy Windsor Knot John Anderson 2012
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Whittle predicted that a system of turbines and compressed air that burned vaporized fuel would make propellered craft obsolete.
Modern Transportation Innovations Saabira Chaudhuri 2006
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Carl pointed his left arm at a screwdriver on a workbench and it propellered into the air and stabbed, a wind-gusting paper scrap to the plank wall of the storage shed.
In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984
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Parrot AR. Drone is a four-propellered flying machine.
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Parrot AR. Drone is a four-propellered flying machine.
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Parrot AR. Drone is a four-propellered flying machine.
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I've been let down by my fair share of remote control flying toys in the past, but the four-propellered, iPhone-controlled, Linux-based, Avatar-chic, WiFi-ready, augmented reality-enhanced, dual video camera-wielding Parrot ... well, you get the picture.
Gizmodo 2010
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Ericsson’s first idea for the U.S. Navy had been a propellered frigate.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Ericsson’s first idea for the U.S. Navy had been a propellered frigate.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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