biplane

noun

bi·​plane ˈbī-ˌplān How to pronounce biplane (audio)
: an aircraft with two main supporting surfaces usually placed one above the other

Examples of biplane in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Some assert that a grip can hardly be considered an inapt jail without also being a biplane. Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024 By the time Muntean was a toddler, his mom, a plant manager for Procter & Gamble, had also begun taking flying lessons and had cashed in her pension to purchase an aerobatic biplane. Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024 Zev Feldman has been called the Indiana Jones of jazz, but he’s never run away from an exploding Nazi biplane or snatched a golden idol from an altar in the Amazon. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023 The answer Alef developed was to use the sides of the car as the wings, effectively turning it into a biplane, its body rotating 90 degrees after takeoff to move from upward to forward flight. Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2023 On October 4, 1918, the biplane bomb took off, and then flew off track. Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023 The sky is punctuated by a hot-air balloon, a dirigible and a zooming biplane. Washington Post, 8 June 2023 The Veteran’s Flight team in their bright yellow, vintage World War II-era biplanes, will be making several passes over Casino Beach. Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 29 June 2023 Cinematographer Marco Graziaplena’s 16-millimeter intimacy adds storybook radiance to its earthy authenticity, never more so than when a swimming Juliette’s singing attracts a handsome, eccentric aviator (Louis Garrel) , whose biplane had just crash-landed nearby — into a fairy tale, apparently. Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1874, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of biplane was in 1874

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“Biplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biplane. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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biplane

noun
bi·​plane ˈbī-ˌplān How to pronounce biplane (audio)
: an airplane with two sets of wings usually placed one above the other

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