Word Meanings - QUADRUPLANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An aëroplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces.

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• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• SUPERPOSE
  To lay upon another in such a manner that all the parts of the one coincide with the parts of the other; as, to superpose one plane figure on another. (more info) 1. To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• SUPERPOSITION
  The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry.
• SUPERPOSABLE
  Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• SUPPORT
  convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an
• SUPPORTMENT
  Support. Sir H. Wotton.
• SUPPORTRESS
  A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.
• SUPPORTANCE
  Support. Shak.
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• UNSUPPORTABLE
  Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
  One unprovided with motive power.
• HYDRO-AEROPLANE
  An aëroplane with a boatlike or other understructure that enables it to travel on, or to rise from the surface of, a body of water by its own motive power.
• HYDROPLANE
  1. A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane. 2. A projecting plane or fin on
• AEROPLANE
  A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.