English
A helicopter.
Noun
helicopter (plural helicopters)
- 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.
- a powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
- a winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple
- (slang) A dragonfly; so named because of its resemblance to a helicopter.
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Derived terms
Translations
aircraft
- Afrikaans: helikopter
- Albanian: helikopter (sq) m
- Arabic: طَائِرَة عَامُودِيَّة f (ṭāʾira ʿāmūdiyya), هِلِيكُوبْتَر m (helikobtar), حَوَّامَة f (ḥawwāma)
- Armenian: ուղղաթիռ (hy) (ułłatʿiṙ)
- Asturian: helicópteru m
- Azeri: vertolyot (az)
- Basque: helikoptero
- Belarusian: верталёт (be) m (vjertaljót)
- Bengali: হেলিকোপটার (helikopţar)
- Bulgarian: хелико́птер (bg) m (helikópter), въртоле́т (bg) m (vǎrtolét)
- Burmese: ဟယ်လီကော့ပတာ (my) (hailikau.pa.ta)
- Catalan: helicòpter (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 直升機 (zh) or 直昇機 (zh), 直升机 (zh) (zhíshēngjī)
- Czech: vrtulník (cs) m, helikoptéra f
- Danish: helikopter (da) c
- Dutch: helikopter (nl) m
- Esperanto: helikoptero
- Estonian: helikopter
- Faroese: tyrla (fo) f
- Finnish: helikopteri (fi)
- French: hélicoptère (fr) m
- Galician: helicóptero (gl) m
- Georgian: ვერტმფრენი (verṭmpreni), შვეულმფრენი (šveulmpreni)
- German: Helikopter (de) m, Hubschrauber (de) m
- Greek: ελικόπτερο (el) n (elikóptero)
- Hebrew: מַסּוֹק (he) m (masók)
- Hindi: हेलिकॉप्टर m (helikŏpṭar)
- Hungarian: helikopter (hu)
- Icelandic: þyrla (is) f, þyrilvængja f (obsolete), kofti m (obsolete)
- Ido: helikoptero (io)
- Indonesian: helikopter (id)
- Interlingua: helicoptero
- Irish: héileacaptar, ingearán m
- Italian: elicottero (it) m
- Sicilian: elicòttiru m
- Japanese: ヘリコプター (ja) (herikoputā), ヘリ (ja) (heri)
- Karakalpak: vertolyot
- Kazakh: тікұшақ (tikuşaq)
- Khmer: អេលីកុបទែរ (eeliikoptɛɛ)
- Korean: 헬리콥터 (ko) (hellikopteo), 헬기 (ko) (helgi)
- Kyrgyz: вертолёт (ky) (vertolyot)
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- Lao: ເອລີກົບເທີ ('ē lī kop thœ̄), ເຮລິຄອບແຕ (hē li khǭp tǣ)
- Latin: helicopterum (la) n
- Latvian: helikopters f
- Lithuanian: sraigtasparnis m, (rare) helikopteris m
- Livonian: helikoptõr
- Macedonian: хелико́птер (mk) m (helikópter)
- Malay: helikopter
- Maltese: ħelikopter m
- Mongolian: нисдэг тэрэг (nisdeg tereg)
- Navajo: bikááʼ náʼoobałí
- Northern Sami: helekopter
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: helikopter (no) n
- Nynorsk: helikopter n
- Persian: بالگرد (fa) (bâlgard), هلیکوپتر (fa) (helikōpter)
- Polish: śmigłowiec (pl) m inan, helikopter (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: helicóptero (pt) m
- Romanian: elicopter (ro) n
- Russian: вертолёт (ru) m (vertoljót), гелико́птер (ru) m (gelikópter) (dated)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хеликоптер m
- Roman: helikopter (sh) m
- Slovak: vrtuľník m
- Slovene: helikopter (sl) m
- Sotho: helikopotare (st)
- Spanish: helicóptero (es) m, autogiro (es) m
- Swahili: helikopta (sw)
- Swedish: helikopter (sv) c
- Tagalog: helikopter
- Tajik: чархбол (čarxbol)
- Tatar: боралак (boralaq)
- Thai: เฮลิคอปเตอร์ (th) (hee-lí-kɔ̂ɔp-dtəə)
- Tok Pisin: helikopta
- Turkish: helikopter (tr)
- Turkmen: wertolýot
- Ukrainian: вертолі́т m (vertolít), геліко́птер m (helikópter)
- Urdu: بالگرد (bālgard), ہیلی کاپٹر m (heli-kopṭar)
- Uzbek: tikuchar (uz), vertolyot (uz)
- Vietnamese: máy bay lên thẳng, máy bay trực thăng, trực thăng (vi)
- Volapük: tovaskrubian
- Welsh: hofrennydd (cy) m
- Yiddish: העליקאָפּטער m (helikopter)
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machine for spreading concrete
Verb
helicopter (third-person singular simple present helicopters, present participle helicoptering, simple past and past participle helicoptered)
- (transitive) To transport by helicopter.
- (intransitive) To travel by helicopter.
- To rotate like a helicopter blade.
- helicoptering his jacket, helicoptering his arms
- To overprotect one's children.
Translations
to transport by helicopter
