Glider vs Helicopter - What's the difference?
glider | helicopter |
Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
A pilot of glider aircraft.
Anything that glides, especially an animal or aircraft.
(mathematics) In the cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
A kind of garden swing.
* 2011 , Mary Biever, He Uses It For Good! (page 5)
An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and having a smaller set of blades on its tail that stabilize the aircraft.
a powered troweling machine with spinning blades used to spread concrete.
a winged fruit of certain trees, such as ash, elm, and maple
As nouns the difference between glider and helicopter
is that glider is any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane while helicopter is an aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and having a smaller set of blades on its tail that stabilize the aircraft.As a verb helicopter is
to transport by helicopter.glider
English
(wikipedia glider)Noun
(en noun)- Then I went into the backyard, which had a flower-covered arbor, a small garden wall, and room behind it for a garden. Swings and gliders adorned the yard.
Hyponyms
* hang glider, motor glider, paraglider, sailplaneDerived terms
* glider gun * sugar gliderAnagrams
* * * English agent nouns ----helicopter
English
Noun
(en noun)- We flew over the city in a helicopter .
