Helicopter

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

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) a powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
 * 2) a winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple

Synonyms

 * chopper, copter , eggbeater , rotary-wing aircraft , whirlybird
 * power trowel, trowel machine
 * samara, whirlybird

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: طائرة عامودية, هليكوبتر,  حوامة
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: or ,
 * Croatian: helikoper
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: हेलिकॉप्टर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: þyrla, þyrilvængja, kofti
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: helicoptero


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: helicopterus
 * Lithuanian: sraigtasparnis, helikopteris
 * Macedonian:
 * Navajo:
 * Northern Sami: helekopter
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:, fa
 * Polish: śmigłowiec, helikopter
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: helikopotare
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: เฮลิคอบเตอ
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Volapük: tovaskrubian

Verb

 * 1)  To transport by helicopter.
 * 2)  To travel by helicopter.

Derived terms

 * helicopter parent

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Italian: elitrasportare


 * Finnish:

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