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dirigible
[ dir-i-juh-buhl, dih-rij-uh- ]
adjective
- designed for or capable of being directed, controlled, or steered.
dirigible
/ dɪˈrɪdʒɪbəl /
adjective
- able to be steered or directed
noun
- another name for airship
Derived Forms
- ˌdirigiˈbility, noun
Other Words From
- dir·i·gi·bil·i·ty noun
- non·dir·i·gi·bili·ty noun
- non·dir·i·gi·ble adjective noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of dirigible1
Word History and Origins
Origin of dirigible1
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.
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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