airlift(n = noun.act) lift - transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable);
is a kind of conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation
has particulars: berlin airlift
Derived form verb airlift1
airlift(v = verb.contact) lift - fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
is one way to fly
Derived form noun airlift1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody
airlift, n. & v.
--n. the transport of troops and supplies by air, esp. in a blockade or other emergency.
--v.tr. transport in this way.
N navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway, sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift, sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory, under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit, bon voyage, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.