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Meaning of "spotter plane" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SPOTTER PLANE

ˈspɒtə pleɪn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPOTTER PLANE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spotter plane 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 SPOTTER PLANE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Surveillance aircraft

A surveillance aircraft is an aircraft used for surveillance—collecting information over time. They are operated by military forces and other government agencies in roles such as intelligence gathering, battlefield surveillance, airspace surveillance, observation, border patrol and fishery protection. This article concentrates on aircraft used in those roles, rather than for traffic monitoring, law enforcement and similar activities. Surveillance aircraft usually carry no armament, or only limited defensive armament. A surveillance aircraft does not necessarily require high-performance capability or stealth characteristics. It may be a modified civilian aircraft. Surveillance aircraft have also included moored balloons and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Definition of spotter plane in the English dictionary

The definition of spotter plane in the dictionary is an aircraft used in observing enemy movements or the accuracy of fire on a target.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPOTTER PLANE

aeroplane · airplane · aquaplane · biplane · Champlain · complain · explain · gyroplane · hydroplane · hyperplane · lain · Laine · lane · monoplane · plain · plane · sailplane · seaplane · triplane · warplane

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPOTTER PLANE

spotted · spotted crake · spotted dick · spotted dog · spotted fever · spotted flycatcher · spotted gum · spotted hyena · spotted laurel · spotted mackerel · Spotted Mist · spotted orchid · spotted ray · spotted redshank · spotted sandpiper · spottedness · spotter · spottie · spottier · spottiest

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPOTTER PLANE

astral plane · block plane · cargo plane · charter plane · deplane · fault plane · fighter plane · float plane · focal plane · galactic plane · inclined plane · jack plane · jet plane · London plane · memory lane · model plane · multiplane · rocket plane · space plane · spy plane · tailplane

Synonyms and antonyms of spotter plane in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spotter plane» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SPOTTER PLANE

Find out the translation of spotter plane to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

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

Translator English - Chinese

检举飞机
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

avión de reconocimiento
570 millions of speakers
en

English

spotter plane
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

निशानदेही विमान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

طائرة نصاب
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

корректировщик самолет
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

plane spotter
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

স্পট্টার সমতল
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

spotter plan
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pesawat spotter
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Aufklärungsflugzeug
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

スポッター面
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

반점을 찍는 면
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Spotter plane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

máy bay trinh sát
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்பாட்டர் விமானம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

गुप्तचर विमान
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Spotter plane
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

aereo spotter
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

spotter samolot
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

корректировщик літак
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

avion spotter
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αεροπλάνο spotter
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opspoorvliegtuig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spotter plan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spotter fly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spotter plane

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPOTTER PLANE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of spotter plane
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spotter plane

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPOTTER PLANE»

Discover the use of spotter plane in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spotter plane and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Against the Flow: The First Woman to Sail Solo the 'wrong ...
A helicopter and a spotter plane would be needed for the rescue and had to come from New Zealand. John would hopefully be winched into the helicopter but first a spotter plane had to pinpoint us quickly as we would be at the very edge of ...
Dee Caffari, 2009
2
Flying Low: And Shot Down Twice During World War II in a ...
And Shot Down Twice During World War II in a Spotter Plane Joseph Furbee Gordon. sick— physically, throw-up air sick. After training, I became a pilot of acceptable performance, mainly because of hard-headed determination, not for the ...
Joseph Furbee Gordon, 2001
3
The Michigan Technic
All. Napoleon. needed. was. one. spotter. plane... Napoleon was a hot shot artilleryman! His cannoneers had hairy ears . . . but better reconnaissance would have saved his bacon . . . and his empire! One little "Spotter Plane" might have ...
‎1944
4
Routledge Dictionnaire Technique Anglais
POLLU MER spotter plane; - de pénétration m MILITAIRE strike aircraft: - porteur »i ESPACE launching aircraft; - de présérie m AERONAUT preproduction aircraft; - rapidement convertible m AERONAUT quick change aircraft. - ravttailleur m ...
Yves Arden, 1994
5
Return To Hell
Their radio lit up with a call from a spotter plane. The pilot was trying to give them a heads-up on what was between them and the Vietnam border they were trying to reach. “Blue Star, do you read me? Come in, Blue Star. This is Bat Wing Two, ...
Charles F. David, 2011
6
Stars and Stripes and Shadows: How I Remember Vietnam
They've established a reference point for the Air Force pilot in the spotter plane. A second round booms off and explodes five hundred meters closer to the high peak, this time red smoke marks the reference point. The Skymaster makes one ...
Tim Haslam, 2007
7
Life in the Air: Surviving the New Culture of Air Travel
Thus, like SFO, DIA turns out to be a major disappointment for the hard-core spotter. (Plane Spotting 1999) One airport that got a perfect rating, five out of five stars, was Los Angeles International Airport (LAX): If plane spotting were a religion, ...
Mark Gottdiener, 2001
8
The Ghost Army
The pink, khaki and green camouflage of the British Spitfire clashed with the cobalt blue of the Mediterranean as flight Lieutenant Reinhard Stein looked down on the fighter from his single-engine Fieseler Storch spotter plane several thousand ...
A.V. Gallagher
9
Reaping the Whirlwind: Personal Accounts of the German, ...
Where has the spotter-plane got to? Must get rid of him! Down there, close to the ground, a Bloch still with him, I dive towards the Bloch fighter, but I'm going too fast, can't shoot; suddenly I'm alongside him; I can see the pilot very clearly; he's ...
Nigel Cawthorne, 2012
10
Lost Souls of the River Kwai: Experiences of a British ...
Having seen the enemy's position, the spotter plane would do one circuit of it then release smoke while flying another circuit. Within seconds, a squadron of Japanese bombers would come along and unload everything they carried, through ...
Bill Reed, Mitch Peeke, 1990

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPOTTER PLANE»

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1
AirAsia Plane Searchers Had to Work With Shallower Seas Than …
An Indonesian official points to the zone of the AirAsia plane's crash site on a map ... make it harder for spotter planes to distinguish trash from any plane debris. «NDTV, Dec 14»
2
Air tanker crashes battling Yosemite wildfire; pilot dies
The most recent aircraft-related death at Cal Fire occurred in 2006, when a spotter plane crashed in the Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest in Tulare ... «SFGate, Oct 14»
3
How a Satellite May Help Find Missing Malaysian Plane
The best chance of finding the plane rests on using a physics concept developed in ... They are floating not far from where Chinese and Australian spotter planes ... «National Geographic, Mar 14»
4
Missing Malaysia Flight MH370: Spotter planes flying low over …
Despite clear weather and visibility of more than six miles, spotter planes flying low over a remote patch of the southern Indian Ocean failed to find any sign of ... «The Independent, Mar 14»
5
Missing flight MH370: Malaysia calls on 25 countries in massive …
Malaysia has called for help from 25 countries as the search for missing flight MH370 ... Malaysia has asked for more ships and spotter planes, especially in the ... «ABC Online, Mar 14»
REFERENCE
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