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dirigible

[ dir-i-juh-buhl, dih-rij-uh- ]

noun

  1. an airship.


adjective

  1. designed for or capable of being directed, controlled, or steered.

dirigible

/ dɪˈrɪdʒɪbəl /

adjective

  1. able to be steered or directed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. another name for airship
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌdirigiˈbility, noun
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Other Words From

  • dir·i·gi·bil·i·ty noun
  • non·dir·i·gi·bili·ty noun
  • non·dir·i·gi·ble adjective noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dirigible1

First recorded in 1580–90 for the adjective and in 1885–90 for the noun; from Latin dīrigere, dēregere “to arrange, align, straighten, direct” + English adjective suffix -ible; direct, -ible
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dirigible1

C16: from Latin dīrigere to direct
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Example Sentences

Other inventions, which never quite succeeded, included a sailboat with an adjustable mast, a dirigible, a fiberglass ukulele and a solid-foam football, with grooves in the surface.

If people die in the service of something that seems less noble, the space market as a whole could dry up as fast as the dirigible business did following the Hindenburg disaster.

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The United States Naval Observatory even sent a radio receiver aloft on a dirigible to pick up a potential Martian message, with a cryptographer on hand in case translations were needed.

His only regret seemed to be that he, too, could not have a dirigible balloon and a countess—on ten francs a week!

For in the matter of mines the Boodah had all the advantages of a shore, and as to dirigible torpedoes more than all.

Efficient air gun as a weapon; improvements in army tents; improvements in dirigible balloons and aeroplanes for military uses.

Dirigible balloons are divided into three classes: the rigid, the semi-rigid, and the non-rigid.

The aeroplane, more than the dirigible and balloon, stands as the emblem of the conquest of the air.

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