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Meaning of "cropduster" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CROPDUSTER

cropduster  [ˈkrɒpˌdʌstə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CROPDUSTER

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adjective
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Cropduster is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CROPDUSTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cropduster

Aerial application

Aerial application, or what was formerly referred to as crop dusting, involves spraying crops with crop protection products from an agricultural aircraft. Planting certain types of seed are also included in aerial application. The specific spreading of fertilizer is also known as aerial topdressing in some countries. Agricultural aircraft are highly specialized, purpose-built aircraft. Today's agricultural aircraft is often powered by a turbine engines of up to 1500 hp and can carry as much as 800 gallons of crop protection product. Helicopters are sometimes used, and some aircraft serve double duty as water bombers in areas prone to wildfires..

Definition of cropduster in the English dictionary

The definition of cropduster in the dictionary is an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide. Other definition of cropduster is the pilot of such an aeroplane.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CROPDUSTER


Augusta
ɔːˈɡʌstə
blockbuster
ˈblɒkˌbʌstə
bluster
ˈblʌstə
buster
ˈbʌstə
cluster
ˈklʌstə
crusta
ˈkrʌstə
Custer
ˈkʌstə
duster
ˈdʌstə
filibuster
ˈfɪlɪˌbʌstə
fluster
ˈflʌstə
frusta
ˈfrʌstə
lackluster
ˈlækˌlʌstə
locusta
ləʊˈkʌstə
luster
ˈlʌstə
lustre
ˈlʌstə
muster
ˈmʌstə
robusta
rəʊˈbʌstə
supercluster
ˈsuːpərˌklʌstə
thruster
ˈθrʌstə
truster
ˈtrʌstə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CROPDUSTER

crop circle
crop failure
crop out
crop rotation
crop sprayer
crop spraying
crop top
crop up
crop-dusting
crop-eared
cropbound
cropful
cropfull
cropland
cropless
cropped
cropper
cropping
croppy
cropsick

WORDS THAT END LIKE CROPDUSTER

adjuster
Auster
baluster
claims adjuster
exhauster
faster
feather duster
globular cluster
insurance adjuster
jouster
knuckle-duster
loss adjuster
oak leaf cluster
oak-leaf cluster
ouster
pass muster
rouster
Schuster
sodbuster
subcluster
tankbuster

Synonyms and antonyms of cropduster in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cropduster» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CROPDUSTER

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The translations of cropduster from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cropduster» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cropduster
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cropduster
570 millions of speakers

English

cropduster
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cropduster
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cropduster
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

cropduster
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cropduster
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফসল ঝাড়ন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cropduster
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cropduster
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cropduster
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cropduster
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cropduster
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cropduster
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cropduster
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cropduster
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रॉपडस्टर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tarla ilaçlayıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cropduster
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cropduster
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cropduster
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cropduster
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cropduster
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cropduster
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cropduster
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cropduster
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cropduster

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CROPDUSTER»

The term «cropduster» is regularly used and occupies the 97.039 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CROPDUSTER» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CROPDUSTER»

Discover the use of cropduster in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cropduster and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Billboard
Artist-Owned. label. Cropduster. Seeks. Communal. Success. "thoroughly delightful, varied and witty song cycle" "she's continued to sing potent music ...a triumph of no small order * The Advocate "her best-kept secret may be her guitar playing ...
2
From Cropduster to Airline Captain the Biography of Captain ...
In 1936, a wide-eyed boy by the name of LeRoy Brown clambered aboard a 1929 Waco 10 converted to crop dusting duty, sat down in the grimy hopper, and then launched into a clear-blue Florida sky on a wondrous flight that ignited a life-long ...
Leroy H. Brown, 2013
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CROPDUSTER: A Model for Evaluating the "Common Relevant ...
The model focuses on the sensor-to-shooter information needed by elements of a joint force to engage time critical Targets.
Donald Paul Gaver, Patricia A. Jacobs, Steven E. Pilnick, 2002
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CMJ New Music Report
Whatever the case, Cropduster's on to something; the group has garnered enough airplay to crack CMJ's Radio 200. — Jordan N. Marnone For Fans Of: Cracker, Ween's 12 Golden Country Greats, post-SST Dinosaur Jr. Recommended ...
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Anthrax: Bioterror as Fact and Fantasy
As the news of the cropduster flickered over TV screens, the first anthrax letters were already on their way or had just reached the mail distribution centers of the media companies they were addressed to. I hesitate to say whether that was ...
Philipp Sarasin, 2006
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CMJ New Music Monthly
Drunk Uncle we Put out Hoboken, New Jersey's Cropduster purportedly named their second effort Drunk Uncle because the bandmembers call each other " Uncle." It's not the most inventive nickname, but it is appealing in a sophomoric way, ...
7
Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic ...
Cropduster has so far produced various reviews and critiques of some of the lesser known aspects of people and places that teeter-totter on barely breaking even. The zine is an overseer of this as well as a product of it, because the thing itself ...
8
Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll's Frontline
On the front of the building, in plain sight, are two posters advertising the Cropduster show. "Cropduster at l23 Pleasant Street — Friday l l/23" You might think this was a good sign. Think again. We are standing on the street, gazing at the ...
Sleazegrinder, 2003
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Expatriate Adventures
AVIATION INSURANCE The aviation insurance which was available to us to write was that of cropduster aircraft. You will recall that insuring a cropduster created the problem with Jorge Hoth and Willie Munoz when I was transferred to  ...
Fred Richardson, 2012
10
Skytrucker: Incidents, Accidents and Romantic Attachments ...
l. 4. Cropduster. irplane manufacturers are a lot like automobile manufacturers in A that they employ vast numbers of people whose sole function in life is to dream up wholly imaginative names for the company product. Piper, who make a ...
Allen Murray, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CROPDUSTER»

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1
CornNation Profiles: Thunderhead Brewing
Since then, the brewery has added Cornstalker Dark Wheat, Cropduster IPA, Leatherhead Red, Schaben's Pilsner, and most recently Prairie ... «Corn Nation, Jul 15»
2
Beating Swords into Plowshares, Poison Gas into Pesticides
British-born American actor Cary Grant (1904 - 1986) is pursued across a cornfield by a cropduster in the Hitchcock film 'North by Northwest', ... «In These Times, Jul 15»
3
Mile high club launches at O2
The classics will be served with other aviation themed cocktails such as Aviation, Transatlantic, Flying Lady, Maiden Voyager, Atlanta and Cropduster. «The Handbook, Jul 15»
4
Name of pilot in plane crash near Foster released
A cropduster plane lies upside down after a crash landing in a field about 1 1/2 miles northwest of Foster on Friday afternoon. «Norfolk Daily News, Jun 15»
5
2015 Screen on the Green lineup announced
Get your camera ready to capture the famous cropduster scene or Mt. Rushmore finale – set against the Capitol Dome backdrop of Screen on ... «WTOP, Jun 15»
6
Red North by Northwest
... into a stage play? The MTC and Director Simon Phillips have done just that and managed to include Mount Rushmore and a cropduster. «ABC Online, Jun 15»
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(Neb)-Cropduster Killed Mon In Crash Near Kadoka
KADOKA, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota authorities say the pilot of an alfalfa crop-dusting plane was killed Monday afternoon when it crashed ... «KCSR, Jun 15»
8
Review: Melbourne Theatre Company brilliantly reimagines …
This Hitchcock spy caper from 1959 is replete with justly famous movie scenes — Cary Grant dodging a murderous cropduster on the prairie, ... «Herald Sun, Jun 15»
9
North by Northwest: Matt Day channels Mad Men in MTC's world-first …
Other scenes, like the infamous cropduster sequence, in which Thornhill is terrorised by a plane flying overhead, were much harder to pull off. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
10
North by Northwest comes to the stage, but how to recreate the …
Famously in the film a cropduster bears down on our terrified hero, and a thrilling chase across Mount Rushmore amps up the finale. Opening ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cropduster [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cropduster>. Apr 2024 ».
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