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| Domain | Definition |
Military | Delivery of personnel or cargo from aircraft in flight. See also air movement; free drop; high-velocity drop; low- velocity drop. (references) |
Transportation | The dropping of cargo(freight)from an aircraft, with or without decelerating devices. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: AIRDROP |
| Specialty definitions using "AIRDROP": airdrop platform ♦ combat control team ♦ landing area. (references) |
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| "Airdrop" by Melvin Heng Commentary: "Resupply airdrop by C130. took this while i was on a military exercise =)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "AIRDROP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "AIRDROP" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "AIRDROP": airdrop platform. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "AIRDROP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | desantim ajror. (various references) | |
Arabic | الإنزال الجوي إنزال المؤن الغذائية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | парашутен десант (drop). (various references) | |
Danish | luftkast (blow, throw). (various references) | |
Dutch | aan-of toevoer vanuit de lucht. (various references) | |
Finnish | ilmapudotus. (various references) | |
French | aérolargage, largage. (various references) | |
German | Abwerfen (buck off, cast off, discard, drop, jettison, parachute, parachute in, produce, release, shed, slough off, throw, throw off, unhorse, unsaddle, unseat, yield), Absetzen (break off, cancel, deduct, degrade, degradeher, depose, deposit, deprive, discontinue, dismiss, drop, land, let out, move, oust, posit, push off, put down, remove, sell, set down, settlement, stop, unseat, unshoulder, wean). (various references) | |
Greek | ρίψη αερομεταφερόμενου φορτίου. (various references) | |
Hungarian | repülõgéprõl ledob, repülõgépbõl ledob utánpótlást, ledobás ejtõernyõvel, légi ledobás, földre száll, ejtõernyõvel ledobott utánpótlás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penurunan (deflation, descent), penjatuhan, penerjunan makanan. (various references) | |
Italian | lancio da un aereo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 投下 (dropping, investment, throwing down). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とうか (by the lamp, confection, conversion to sugar, dropping, equivalence, investment, lamplight, next word, passing the civil service examination, peach blossom, sweetmeats, sweets, sword rack, the old Kanto-area folk songs, throwing down, transmission, under the sword). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airdropay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | largada aérea, lançamento em vôo. (various references) | |
Russian | выброска с воздуха, доставка с парашюта (airdrops). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vazdušni desant (airborne), izbacivanje tereta iz vazduha, desantisanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | lanzamiento en vuelo. (various references) | |
Swedish | luftlandsättning (drop). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AIRDROP": airdropped, airdropping, airdrops. (additional references) | |
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"AIRDROP" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ardroe, Arendrup, ordrop. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-o-p-r-r" | |
-2 letters: ardor, aroid, padri, pardi, podia, prior, radio, rapid. | |
-3 letters: apod, arid, dopa, dorp, dorr, drip, drop, orad, orra, padi, paid, pair, pard, parr, prao, proa, prod, raid, road, roar. | |
-4 letters: ado, aid, air, dap, dip, dor, oar, ora, pad, par, pia, pod, poi, pro, rad, rap, ria, rid, rip, rod. | |
-5 letters: ad, ai, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-o-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: airdrops, raindrop. | |
+2 letters: preordain, primordia, raindrops. | |
+3 letters: airdropped, airproofed, madreporic, preordains, primordial, radiograph, repudiator. | |
+4 letters: airdropping, cardiograph, depolarizer, depreciator, dimercaprol, dipterocarp, disapprover, harpsichord, madreporian, madreporite, overpraised, parathyroid, predicatory, preordained, radiographs, radiography, repolarized, repudiators, springboard. | |
+5 letters: antipredator, appropriated, cardiographs, cardiography, depolarizers, depreciators, depreciatory, deprograming, dimercaprols, dipterocarps, disapprovers, discographer, expropriated, harpsichords, hydrographic, incorporated, madreporians, madreporites, micrographed, misprogramed, paradropping, parathyroids, perichondral, perichondria, premeditator, preordaining, prerogatived, primordially, proliferated, proofreading, radiographed, radiographic, radiotherapy, reciprocated, springboards, videographer. | |
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