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Meanings of blimp in anglès

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colonel blimp
espanyol
colonel blimp

Any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low)

        colonel blimp
        rus
        мягкий дирижабль
        espanyol
        blimp

        Non-rigid airship.

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              мягкий дирижабль

              A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon.

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                    Examples for "sausage"
                    Examples for "sausage"
                    1
                    In fact, the sausage was most likely responsible for the entire production.
                    Speaks the Nightbird
                    2
                    Lift the sausage from the water and let cool to room temperature.
                    Cleaving
                    3
                    Eastern Ukrainians want bread; they don't care if the sausage is good.
                    Cleaving
                    4
                    The iconic Bunnings sausage sizzle is undergoing a change for safety reasons!
                    News.com.au
                    5
                    But meal after meal, he wasn't given so much as a sausage.
                    Shadows Return
                    1
                    On the other hand, we have just a few days hence seen a sausage balloon destroyed by our men.
                    Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
                    2
                    There are two sausage balloons sitting up aloft, and some aeroplanes coming and going.
                    Elizabeth's Campaign
                    3
                    I have counted thirty-three British sausage balloons within my range of vision from a hill.
                    My Second Year of the War
                    4
                    Dale's fingers felt swollen and clumsy, useless sausage balloons.
                    A Winter Haunting
                    5
                    The Germans haven't any aeroplanes up to enable them to see us and no sausage balloons, either.
                    My Second Year of the War
                    Usage of blimp in anglès
                    1
                    A key problem to tackle: how to store energy for the blimp.
                    Wired
                    2
                    Expect mass protests and the flying of the Trump baby blimp today.
                    Reuters
                    3
                    For a couple of years there, I had a major blimp fetish.
                    Wired
                    4
                    With every additional degree of superheat, the blimp becomes twenty-five pounds lighter.
                    The new yorker
                    5
                    All of his skin was black, and he looked like a blimp.
                    The smoke room: a novel of suspense
                    6
                    That's where that nice top view from the blimp becomes useful.
                    Wired
                    7
                    In effect, the blimp is a combination of balloon and aeroplane.
                    Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
                    8
                    In that way, today's war blimp could become tomorrow's all-seeing, lethal Big Brother.
                    Wired
                    9
                    The blimp was flying on Tuesday during the final eventing competition.
                    Radio NZ
                    10
                    Now the blimp has been reborn again, courtesy of a German cargo company.
                    Wired
                    11
                    On the bridge of my battle-blimp the wind rises, carrying a new scent.
                    Soon I will be invincible
                    12
                    The weight of a blimp, Conrad explained, is in constant flux.
                    The new yorker
                    13
                    But it's only a marginal success for the once-hyped blimp program.
                    Wired
                    14
                    There's even a blimp for the aerial shots, provided by DirecTV.
                    Reuters
                    15
                    Men and women cheered as the little blimp rose, sputtering, into the sky.
                    The Postman
                    16
                    Authorities have said he was firing at a police blimp.
                    Reuters
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                    Blimp through the time
                    Blimp across language varieties
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