flying machine

collocation in English

meaningsofflyingandmachine

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flying
noun[U]
uk
/ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/
travel ...
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machine
noun[C]
uk
/məˈʃiːn/us
/məˈʃiːn/
a piece of equipment with several moving parts that uses power to do a particular type ...
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(Definition offlyingandmachinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofflying machine

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Weather still good, we had theflyingmachinecome on board today.
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No otherflyingmachineof its type anywhere else in the world equalled it.
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I think that we can do this without having a military sophisticatedflyingmachineon the industry's order books.
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It is much cheaper than a full-scale hovercraft for it is more like a boat than aflyingmachine.
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Obviously, therefore, a machine of this kind might in future be of the greatest value as a civilflyingmachine.
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The design, progress and perfection of theflyingmachineover the past 30 years has changed the whole concept of aviation.
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It gives them knowledge of the air and of controlling aflyingmachine.
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Anyone with £200 can buy a lightflyingmachineand traverse the country, and possibly such a person might do great damage to private residences.
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It cannot be denied that theflyingmachinehas come, any more than it can be denied that the bicycle has come.
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The invention of theflyingmachinewhich the pioneers of successive centuries strove to achieve was meant for something better than an instrument of concentrated frightfulness.
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He breaks into his old workshop and rebuilds hisflyingmachine.
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Taki then formed aflyingmachinein order to gather the rest of the group.
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A conventional fixed wing aircraft was still the most sophisticatedflyingmachineof the time.
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One design that he produced shows aflyingmachineto be lifted by a man-powered rotor.
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During the night following the flight, a violent storm destroyed and scattered theflyingmachine.
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He continues his notes on theflyingmachineby writing on the nerve of the machine.
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One of them, the least cranky of the lot, has created a workableflyingmachine.
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Theflyingmachineof the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1000 miles or so.
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