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• Airship — For other uses, see Airship (disambiguation). Dirigible redirects here. For the 1931 film, see Dirigible (film). Not to be confused with Balloon (aircraft) or Blimp. Airship …   Wikipedia

• Gondola (disambiguation) — Gondola may refer to:*Gondola, a narrow boat, best known today for its use in the canals of Venice *The passenger area or basket of an airship or hot air balloon *The passenger component of a Ferris wheel is also called a gondola. *Gondola lift,… …   Wikipedia

• gondola — 1540s, from It. (Venetian) gondola, earlier in English as goundel, from O.It. gondula, of unknown origin; perhaps from Rhaeto Romanic dial. gondola roll, rock, or perhaps a dim. of gonda, name of a kind of boat. Meaning cabin of an airship is… …   Etymology dictionary

• gondola — [gän′dō lə, gän′dələ; ] often [ gän dō′lə, gəndō′lə] n. [It (Venetian) < Rhaeto Romanic (dial.) gondolá, to rock] 1. a long, narrow boat for a few passengers used on the canals of Venice, having a high, pointed prow and stern and propelled by… …   English World dictionary

• gondola — ► NOUN 1) a light flat bottomed boat used on Venetian canals, having a high point at each end and worked by one oar at the stern. 2) a cabin on a ski lift, or suspended from an airship or balloon. ORIGIN Venetian Italian …   English terms dictionary

• airship — /air ship /, n. a self propelled, lighter than air aircraft with means of controlling the direction of flight; dirigible. Cf. blimp. [1810 20, for an earlier sense; AIR1 + SHIP] * * * or dirigible Lighter than air aircraft with steering and… …   Universalium

• gondola — [16] The gondola, the narrow boat used on Venetian canals, gets its name from the way it rocks gently in the water. Italian gondola is an adaptation of gondolà, a word meaning ‘roll, rock’ in the Rhaeto Romanic dialect of Friuli, in northeastern… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• gondola — [16] The gondola, the narrow boat used on Venetian canals, gets its name from the way it rocks gently in the water. Italian gondola is an adaptation of gondolà, a word meaning ‘roll, rock’ in the Rhaeto Romanic dialect of Friuli, in northeastern… …   Word origins

• gondola — /gon dl euh/ or, esp. for 1, /gon doh leuh/, n. 1. a long, narrow, flat bottomed boat having a tall, ornamental stem and stern and sometimes a small cabin for passengers, rowed or poled by a single person who stands at the stern, facing forward:… …   Universalium

• airship — Synonyms and related words: Graf Zeppelin, aerostat, ballonet, balloon, basket, blimp, car, catwalk, dirigible, dirigible balloon, envelope, gas chamber, gasbag, gondola, lighter than air craft, mooring harness, rigid airship, sandbag, semirigid… …   Moby Thesaurus

• gondola — [ gɒndələ] noun 1》 a light flat bottomed boat used on Venetian canals, having a high point at each end and worked by one oar at the stern. 2》 a cabin on a ski lift, or suspended from an airship or balloon. 3》 (also gondola car) N. Amer. an open… …   English new terms dictionary