What does helicopter mean?

Definitions for helicopter
ˈhɛl ɪˌkɒp tər, ˈhi lɪ-he·li·copter

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. helicopter, chopper, whirlybird, eggbeaternoun

    an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades

GCIDE

  1. Helicopternoun

    a heavier-than-air aircraft whose lift is provided by the aerodynamic forces on rotating blades rather than on fixed wings. Contrasted with fixed-wing aircraft.

  2. Helicopterverb

    to travel in a helicopter.

  3. Helicopterverb

    to transport in a helicopter.

Wiktionary

  1. helicopternoun

    An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and having a smaller set of blades on its tail that stabilize the aircraft.

    We flew over the city in a helicopter.

  2. helicopternoun

    a powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.

  3. helicopternoun

    a winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple

  4. helicopterverb

    To transport by helicopter.

  5. helicopterverb

    To travel by helicopter.

  6. Etymology: From hélicoptère, from ἕλιξ + πτερόν.

Wikipedia

  1. Helicopter

    Helicopter is a song by English rock band Bloc Party that was originally released as a stand-alone single in the UK in 2004 and would later feature on the Little Thoughts EP, and would then be released two years later as a single from their debut album, Silent Alarm in the US. The song was received with much acclaim, reaching number 26 on the UK Singles Chart on its first release, but failing to chart in the US. Various remixes have been recorded. The song has also been featured on the video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero: On Tour, FIFA 06, Project Gotham Racing 3, Burnout Revenge, Burnout Legends, Colin McRae Dirt 2, and Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. The song was also featured in the films Yes Man, Charlie St. Cloud and Grandma's Boy and in the Malcolm in the Middle episode "Morp". A remix of the song was featured in the film Reverb.

ChatGPT

  1. helicopter

    A helicopter is a type of aircraft that uses rotating wings or blades to take off, maneuver, hover, and land vertically, allowing it to travel in any direction or remain stationary in the air. It is powered by engines and controlled by changing the pitch angle of its rotating blades. It is often used for tasks requiring transportation to locations inaccessible by land, like rescuing people, emergency medical services, firefighting, construction, military activities, and recreational purposes.

Wikidata

  1. Helicopter

    A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forwards, backwards, and laterally. These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft would usually not be able to take off or land. The capability to hover efficiently for extended periods of time allows a helicopter to accomplish tasks that fixed-wing aircraft and other forms of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft cannot perform. The word helicopter is adapted from the French hélicoptère, coined by Gustave de Ponton d'Amecourt in 1861, which originates from the Greek helix/helik- = "twisted, curved" and pteron = "wing". Nicknames used for helicopters include chopper, helo or whirlybird. Helicopters were developed and built during the first half-century of flight, with the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 being the first operational helicopter in 1936. Some helicopters reached limited production, but it was not until 1942 that a helicopter designed by Igor Sikorsky reached full-scale production, with 131 aircraft built. Though most earlier designs used more than one main rotor, it is the single main rotor with anti-torque tail rotor configuration that has become the most common helicopter configuration. Tandem rotor helicopters are also in widespread use, due to their better payload capacity. Quadrotor helicopters and other types of multicopter have been developed for specialized applications.

Editors Contribution

  1. helicopter

    A type of aircraft and product created and designed in various colors, components, controls, engine, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes, styles, systems and technology, functions and maintained according to the manufacturer aircraft design and instructions.

    Helicopters vary in design, technology and style of rotors.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 26, 2017  

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'helicopter' in Nouns Frequency: #2241

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of helicopter in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of helicopter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of helicopter in a Sentence

  1. Civil Aviation Authority:

    There have been challenges with this kind of helicopter model in 2012, when errors in the main gear box were identified, that model received flying restrictions in 2012 and 2013.

  2. Britt Slabinski:

    When we landed on top of the mountain, my helicopter took rocket-propelled grenade fire right away, bullets the size of your finger passing through there, those are the ones that hit hydraulic fluid, which ultimately took us out of the sky.

  3. David Jones:

    What we've done is we've figured out a way to reveal a lot of Borneo's secrets by exploring it in a helicopter, we're going into the Danum Valley, we're going to the Kinabatangan River and we're going to visit the Dayak tribes in areas that are not commercial and where people have seen few Westerners before.

  4. Rip Van Winkle:

    We didn't want to change the fundamental DNA of it, but we wanted to grow it and to expand it, because we had more time, more money, more resources, we could give ourselves more extravagant opportunities, like helicopter shots and drone shooting.... [ We could ] just allow ourselves to be a little less reserved, a little bolder in some ways... The goal was to make it feel like the same, but elevated and richer in the design.

  5. Lorenzo Maraviglia:

    Some guests wanted to visit the Aeolian isles with a private helicopter and rent a yacht to Syracuse which is only an hour’s drive away.

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