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helicopter English

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What does helicopter mean?
Definitions in simple English

helicopter

A helicopter is a type of aircraft. It does not have wings, but has two or more long blades which rotate. It is able to move in any direction, forward or back, up or down, or stay in one place. The helicopter flew over the sea and was able to land on the ship.

helicopter

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

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Simple sentences

A helicopter circled over us.
They made the pilot fly the Navy helicopter.
A helicopter is able to take off and land straight up and down.
The helicopter is so useful that someday it may take the place of cars and trains.
The helicopter is flying very low.
Tell those people to back off so that the helicopter can land.
The helicopter is hovering overhead.
They were rescued by helicopter.
Tom made up his mind to be a helicopter pilot.
Tom knows how to fly a helicopter.
Tom grabbed the rope that was lowered from the helicopter.
Tom landed his helicopter on the roof.
Tom and Mary are helicopter parents.
The helicopter hovered over the building.
He was transported to the hospital by helicopter.
Tim's uncle was a machine gunner on a helicopter in Vietnam.

Movie subtitles

The helicopter is key.
Uh, of the other six, uh, only one has a structure large enough to get that stolen helicopter out of view and under construction.
Anything else for the helicopter, doctor?
I can fly a helicopter.
Stand by with fire bottle for helicopter turn-up.
Prepare to launch helicopter.
Launch helicopter.
Helicopter on way.
CIC to Flag Bridge. 210 has sighted helicopter approaching.
Helicopter reports Brubaker aboard.
The Hornet's helicopter picked up Forney's crewman.
Helicopter lands in three minutes.
Those helicopter boys are pretty good fishermen.
Forney's a helicopter pilot.
I can't imagine you in America in a helicopter!
Mr. America, where's your helicopter?
Helicopter!
Look, he lost his helicopter!
Will dispatch a helicopter.
The helicopter!
To the helicopter.
Of the other six, only one has a structure large enough to get that stolen helicopter out of view, under construction.
No, a coast guard helicopter.
I need a fast plane, and then a helicopter.
And please, please help the helicopter find us tomorrow, because I want to get back and see them all.
He can do anything: be a butler, cook, accountant, helicopter pilot, even forge signatures!
Patrol was taken by a Russian airborne unit and flown by helicopter across the Manchurian border to a place called Tonghua.
We took a helicopter.
And then I was in a helicopter with you.
The helicopter.
I sent the helicopter back.

News and current affairs

Then, on the 22 December, as crowds stormed the Central Committee headquarters in Bucharest, Stanculescu arranged for a helicopter to rescue Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu from the building's roof terrace.
The helicopter was taking the dictator and his wife to prison, not freedom.
But neither wants to leave in ignominy, with their last man dramatically lifted of an embassy rooftop by helicopter.
In fact, it is likely that the helicopter pilot will hover over friends and relatives when dropping the money.
We freely admit to not knowing everything about how a helicopter flies or a printing press prints, but we are not nearly modest enough about our ignorance.
Similarly, a 6,000-man commando unit will be recruited not only to confront outbreaks of domestic terrorism, but also to provide the air-landed component for the new ship-based helicopter squadrons.
Yes, violence against citizens, whether by sarin gas or helicopter gunships, is a moral obscenity.
Colombia presents the militarized version, with specially trained battalions of soldiers skimming over jungles and mountainsides, spraying defoliants from helicopter gun-ships.
Indeed, helicopter gun-ships and expensive crop replacement programs may provide TV-friendly images that politicians love, but do nothing to lessen the demand for drugs.
Once again, a Chinese military helicopter circled a Japanese escort ship.
The analogy popularized by the great monetarist economist Milton Friedman was that the central bank could always deal with deflationary problems by dropping money from a helicopter.
But, in the real world, not everyone is underneath the helicopter when it makes the drop.
NEW DELHI - The killing of Osama bin Laden by United States special forces in a helicopter assault on a sprawling luxury mansion near Islamabad recalls the capture of other Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistani cities.
The helicopter gunship killings in Iraq, the corruption of former Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's family, and the paucity of progress in Afghanistan are, by this standard, fair game.
Indeed, as early as a few years after the accident, data collected by Belarusan scientists flying helicopter surveys over the abandoned area showed rising numbers of wild boar, elk, and roe deer.
In fact, it is likely that the helicopter pilot will hover over friends and relatives when dropping the money. And even if the pilot is completely non-corrupt, the crowd on the ground will always assume that there is some hidden and partisan plan.

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