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Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.
Tom Hodgkinson

Meaning of "airless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AIRLESS

airless  [ˈɛəlɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AIRLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Airless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AIRLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of airless in the English dictionary

The definition of airless in the dictionary is lacking fresh air; stuffy or sultry. Other definition of airless is devoid of air.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AIRLESS


acropolis
əˈkrɒpəlɪs
Annapolis
əˈnæpəlɪs
careless
ˈkɛəlɪs
chrysalis
ˈkrɪsəlɪs
desireless
dɪˈzaɪəlɪs
driverless
ˈdraɪvəlɪs
fingerless
ˈfɪŋɡəlɪs
gearless
ˈɡɪəlɪs
hairless
ˈhɛəlɪs
Indianapolis
ˌɪndɪəˈnæpəlɪs
metropolis
mɪˈtrɒpəlɪs
Minneapolis
ˌmɪnɪˈæpəlɪs
paperless
ˈpeɪpəlɪs
pardalis
ˈpɑːdəlɪs
peerless
ˈpɪəlɪs
Perlis
ˈpɛəlɪs
powerless
ˈpaʊəlɪs
propolis
ˈprɒpəlɪs
tireless
ˈtaɪəlɪs
wireless
ˈwaɪəlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AIRLESS

airglow
airgraph
airhead
airhole
airier
airiest
airily
airiness
airing
airing cupboard
airlessness
airlift
airlike
airline
airline pilot
airliner
airlock
airmail
airmail edition
airmail envelope

WORDS THAT END LIKE AIRLESS

borderless
bottomless
carless
characterless
cheerless
collarless
colorless
colourless
errorless
fatherless
fearless
flourless
genderless
hammerless
humorless
leaderless
motherless
starless
sugarless
tearless
waterless

Synonyms and antonyms of airless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AIRLESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «airless» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of airless

Translation of «airless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AIRLESS

Find out the translation of airless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of airless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «airless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无气
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin aire
570 millions of speakers

English

airless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वायुहीन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безвоздушное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sem ar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বায়ুশূন্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

privé d´air
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tiada udara
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Airless
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

風通しの悪い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora ana ambane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không có gió
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புழுக்கமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वायुहीन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

havasız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

privo d´aria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

airless
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безповітряний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

airless
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

airless
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

airless
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

airless
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

airless
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of airless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AIRLESS»

The term «airless» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.215 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AIRLESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about airless

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QUOTES WITH «AIRLESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word airless.
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Tom Hodgkinson
Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AIRLESS»

Discover the use of airless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to airless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Airless spaces
A collection of short stories, set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized poverty.
Shulamith Firestone, 1998
2
Painter's Handbook
Eliminating the air from the spray system (hence the name "airless") lets it spray paint of a higher viscosity. There are two ways to spray paint without using air pressure. The first way is to spin a wheel while the paint drops onto it. Centrifugal  ...
William McElroy, 1987
3
Popular Mechanics
Send today for the Revolutionary Electro- Airless Paint Gun— and you'll never want to go back to the old- fashioned method of painting! That's because it is fast, safe, and more efficient than other paint guns you can buy. Only the Electro* ...
4
Certain Airless Paint Spray Pumps and Components Thereof, ...
In contrast, an airless pump directly propels paint without use of an airstream. Airless paint spray devices may be divided into those that use piston pumps and those that use diaphragm pumps. A piston pump contains a single pump chamber ...
U.S. International Trade Commission
5
Advanced Drying Technologies, Second Edition
Airless drying appears to be a technique for energy conservation in drying as it enables the energy lost to the atmosphere with the water vapor in the exhaust gases in conventional air dryers to be recycled. Because ∼85% of the thermal ...
Tadeusz Kudra, Arun S. Mujumdar, 2009
6
Popular Science
Send today for the Revolutionary Electro5 Airless Paint Gun— and you'll never want to go back to the old- fashioned method of painting! That's because it is fast, safe, and more efficient than other paint guns you can buy. Only the Electro' ...
7
Popular Science
Send today for the Revolutionary Electro® Airless Paint Gun— and you'll never want to go back to the old- fashioned method of painting! That's because it is fast, safe, and more efficient than other paint guns you can buy. Only the Electro ...
8
Guide to Industrial Assessments for Pollution Prevention and ...
Airless Spray Guns The airless spray system works much like a home water system. When turning on the faucet at home to take a shower, high pressure from the city's pumping station forces water through small orifices in the showerhead.
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Guide to Industrial Assessments for Pollution Prevention and ...
Airless Spray Guns The airless spray system works much like a home water system. When turning on the faucet at home to take a shower, high pressure from the city's pumping station forces water through small orifices in the showerhead.
National Risk Management Research Laboratory (U.S.), Center for Environmental Research Information (U.S.), Science Applications International Corporation, 2001
10
Potential for Industrial Energy-Efficiency Improvement in ...
An airless dryer involves constructing a closed hood around the drying section, restructuring the steam system and installing compressors. Direct investment costs will therefore be higher than for a conventional dryer. O&M-costs will increase ...
J. de Beer, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AIRLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term airless is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A Mother's Anguished Choice to Flee Myanmar and Leave One …
... for a school for refugees; and tidy the cramped, airless bedroom where the couple and three children sleep on a tattered, full-size mattress. «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Bouchra Jarrar interview: The French designer breathing new life …
And those clothes are causing something of a quiet revolution in the rarefied but airless world of haute couture – because they're minimal, ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
3
Court's ruling reasonable on Obamacare
An airless box of literalism sheds little light on the actual meaning of a text. The Supreme Court has a long history of going beyond the “four ... «Great Falls Tribune, Jul 15»
4
Review: Tarsem Singh's 'Self/Less' Starring Ryan Reynolds And Ben …
Otherwise, the direction in “Self/Less” is as airless and unremarkable as the story itself. Indeed, it's a sense of wonder that's the biggest and ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
5
Calum Hood: 5 Sexy Things To Know About This 5 Seconds Of …
"When we used to rehearse, we'd be stuck in this tiny airless room and after a few hours, when we'd all been sweating, the room always smelt ... «Fashion & Style, Jul 15»
6
Footprints: A Pir's curse
In a lane towards the end of the village, Zulaikha, an elderly lady sat wheezing on a bed in an airless room. Her hands and feet were deformed ... «DAWN.com, Jul 15»
7
Conrad Black: Stephen Harper must appoint a slew of high-calibre …
The ad is airless, joyless, illuminated only by images of terrorism and economic chaos. At the end, the prime minister turns out the lights and ... «National Post, Jul 15»
8
Why the people crossing the Mediterranean aren't 'migrants'
Like all the sub-Saharan Africans I met in Italy, Juliet stayed below deck in a nearly airless hold. (Middle Eastern refugees told me that among ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
9
'I sounded like I was having the best sex': Juno Calypso's one …
There is a sense of airless claustrophobia about much of Calypso's work. But in the Honeymoon Hotel pictures, that frustration is twinned with ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
Do-it-yourself Bubble Wrap
Called iBubble Wrap, the new product is sold airless in flat plastic sheets that shippers fill up with special pumps. It's slated to hit the market at ... «Charlotte Observer, Jul 15»

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