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airship

[ air-ship ]

noun

  1. a self-propelled, lighter-than-air aircraft with means of controlling the direction of flight; dirigible.


airship

/ ˈɛəˌʃɪ±è /

noun

  1. a lighter-than-air self-propelled craft Also calleddirigiblezeppelin
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Origin of airship1

1810–20, for an earlier sense; air 1 + ship 1
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American Walter Wellman was the first to try to reach the North Pole by airship.

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Troy says the production for the game's sets was lavish, with crews building accurate representations of boats, airships and other locations on giant motion-capture stages.

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Celmins’ 1968 drawings of old black-and-white photographs torn from history books — a 1930s zeppelin airship, Hiroshima’s nearly obliterated 1945 landscape — begin with a sheet of paper prepared with a ground of snow-white acrylic.

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“If we had the airships there sooner, they could have … just offloaded patients right into the airships to go to the trauma center.â€

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled a trip to China, calling the airship's presence an "irresponsible act".

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