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    dirigible

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Air
    dir·i·gi·ble /ˈdɪrədʒəbəl, dəˈrɪ-/ noun [countable]  TTAan airship 飞艇，飞船
    Examples from the Corpus
    dirigible• Drinking lifted his mood, made him feel like an old-fashioned dirigible, floating over everything.• Above him vast silver dirigibles moved in the morning sky, great black crates strung beneath them.• He studied the dirigibles through a pair of those really amazing computerized binoculars that you see in movies.    Origin dirigible (1500-1600) Latin dirigere; → DIRECT1
    dir·i·gi·ble nounChineseSyllable
    airship Corpus an


    dirigible
    dir‧i‧gi‧ble /ˈdɪrədʒəbəl, ˈdɪrɪdʒəbəl, dəˈrɪ-/ noun [countable]
     Date: 1500-1600
     Language: Latin
     Origin: dirigere; ⇨ direct1
    an airship


    adjective,
    noun
    diri·gibleBrE /ˈdɪrɪdʒəbl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdɪrɪdʒəbl/ 🔊 adjective(formal) able to be guided or steered 可驾驶的；可操纵的◆a dirigible balloon飞艇
    diri·gibleBrE /ˈdɪrɪdʒəbl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdɪrɪdʒəbl/ 🔊 nounan airship 飞艇