volplane

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A steep, controlled dive, especially by an aircraft with the engine off.
动词 v.
  1. To perform a volplane.
    — 1916, Wilfred Percy ("Billie") Nevill, letter, in 1991, Ruth Elwin Harris (editor), Billie: The Nevill Letters, 1914-1916, Julia Macrae, page 143, […] when well over the bosche lines & he volplaned home, just skimmed over our & the Bosche trenches, they all fired at him like sin, of course, and landed about 1000 yards back on a hill.
  2. To glide.

词形变化

volplanes plural volplanes present,singular,third-person volplaning participle,present volplaned participle,past volplaned past

词源

词源 1
From French vol plané (“gliding flight”).
词源 2
From French vol plané (“gliding flight”).
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