wing
EN[wɪŋ] [wiːŋ] [-ɪŋ]US
Faile WVoilure (aéronautique)
- La voilure (ou simplement l'aile) est l'ensemble des surfaces d'un avion assurant la portance en vol.
- La portance repose sur la déflexion d'une masse d'air par une aile en mouvement.
- « La portance est une fleur qui naît de la vitesse », phrase attribuée au capitaine Ferber, un pionnier de l'aviation.
- Un avion est un appareil à voilure fixe,
- Un hélicoptère, utilise des surfaces en mouvement pour assurer sa sustentation (rotor principal), sa stabilisation et sa direction (Rotor anticouple), est appelé appareil à voilure tournante.
EN Wing
- NomPLwingsSUF-ing
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- (slang) Human arm.
- Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- to take wing
- Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- An organizational grouping in a military aviation service.
- (Britain) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger.
- The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.
- (botany) A flattened extension of a tridimensional plant organ.
- (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
- One of the unseen areass on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- VerbeSGwingsPRwingingPT, PPwinged
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.
- (intransitive) To fly.
- (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
- (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.
- Plus d'exemples
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled. Byron.
- the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or of an oar in rowing
- And his discreete father, being safe according to his vowe, hanging vp his wings in the temple of Appollo.
- Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- O welcome, pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
- He left a bad taste in my mind, let me have another good gulp of this liquid sunshine here with my bird's wing.
- Most tiger moths have broad, striped (hence the name) or spotted wings.
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
Definition of wing in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionnaire