Dirigibles

dir·i·gi·ble (d

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-b

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See airship.

[Latin drigere, to direct; see direct + -ible.]

dirigible [dɪˈrɪdʒɪb^əl]

adj

able to be steered or directed

(Engineering / Aeronautics) another name for airship

[from Latin dīrigere to direct]

dirigibility n

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Noun	1.	dirigible - a steerable self-propelled aircraft airship barrage balloon - an elongated tethered balloon or blimp with cables or net suspended from it to deter enemy planes that are flying low sausage balloon, blimp, sausage - a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon car, gondola - the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant lighter-than-air craft - aircraft supported by its own buoyancy
Adj.	1.	dirigible - capable of being steered or directed steerable manageable - capable of being managed or controlled

Translations

dirigible [ˈdɪrɪdʒəbl]

A. ADJ → dirigible

B. N → dirigible m

dirigible

n → (lenkbares) Luftschiff

adj → lenkbar

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Aeronat aeronautics aerostat Aerostatic aerostatics aircraft airship astronautics aviation barrage balloon Blimp car Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin gondola Graf Zeppelin Lakehurst lighter-than-air craft moored navigable	95 Hardcover TL524 While Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont and his experimental dirigibles were celebrities above the streets of Paris more than 100 years ago, his feats have largely been forgotten outside his native country. Conquistadors of the sky; a history of aviation in Latin America by SciTech Book News But fatal crashes - the R101 went down in France in 1930 - and the coming war changed priorities and dirigibles were ditched. Will luxury liners of the sky return? by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) Dirigibles have been around since the end of the 19th century and were used - largely unsuccessfully - by Germany as bombers during the first world war before being put to use by the Nazi propaganda machine in the late 1930s. New airship era takes off in Tokyo by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk	directorate Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence directorial directorship directory directory assistance directory enquiries Directress directrix direful direfully Direly Dirempt Diremption Direness direption Direptitious Direptitiously dirge Dirgeful dirham Dirichlet Dirige Dirigent dirigible Dirigibles dirigisme dirigiste diriment diriment impediment dirk Dirk knife Dirkness Dirksen Dirl dirndl dirt dirt ball Dirt bed dirt bike dirt cheap dirt dauber Dirt eating dirt farmer Dirt pie dirt road dirt track dirt-cheap dirt-poor dirtbag dirtily	Dirichlet series Dirichlet tesselation Dirichlet tessellation Dirichlet test for convergence Dirichlet theorem Dirichlet transform Dirichlet's Box Principle Dirichlet's conditions Dirichlet's drawer principle Dirichlet's principle Dirichlet's problem Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet-Biomial Attribute Test DIRID Dirige Dirige Dirigeant-Entrepreneur du Secteur des Métiers Dirigeants Commerciaux de France Dirigeants Commerciaux Francophones en Hongrie Dirigeants de la Formation Professionnelle Dirigeants-Durables Midi-Pyrénées Dirigent dirigere dirigere dirigible dirigible Dirigibles Dirigisme Dirigisme Dirigist economy Dirigist economy Dirigiste Dirigiste Dirigiste economy Dirigiste economy Dirigo Dirilecht's Principle Dirimant impediments Diriment diriment impediment diriment impediments dirimere DIRINT DIRISI Dirithromycin Diritti di un beneficiario Diritti Speciali di Prelievo Diritto di diminio Diritto di reversibilita Diritto di sottoscrizione Diritto di voto Diritto inoppugnabile Diritto Romano on Line DIRJIATF dirk dirk dirk

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95 Hardcover TL524 While Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont and his experimental dirigibles were celebrities above the streets of Paris more than 100 years ago, his feats have largely been forgotten outside his native country.

Conquistadors of the sky; a history of aviation in Latin America by SciTech Book News

But fatal crashes - the R101 went down in France in 1930 - and the coming war changed priorities and dirigibles were ditched.

Will luxury liners of the sky return? by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)

Dirigibles have been around since the end of the 19th century and were used - largely unsuccessfully - by Germany as bombers during the first world war before being put to use by the Nazi propaganda machine in the late 1930s.

New airship era takes off in Tokyo by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

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