Usage of "vapor trail"

An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.

Sinònims

Examples for "contrail"

The sky was powder blue and cloudless -not even a contrail. 
 Foxglove Summer 

Threads of the yellow contrail hung in the limbs of the trees. 
 The mammoth book of the best of best new sf 

Skies as delicate as translucent china, unscarred by cloud or contrail. 
 The Hyperion Cantos 

Then he looked up and saw the contrail of an airliner, high overhead. 
 Wild Storm 

A horizontal contrail of scintillating dust stretched out through the air behind them. 
 The Naked God 

A condensation trail arced suddenly into the sky, launched from one of the Iscan heavies. 
 The last page 

Condensation trails are a consequence of interaction between the exhaust gases from a plane's engines and the surrounding air. 
 The Irish Times 

But in fact he was curious about condensation trails, those elongated streaks of cloud that form a wake behind high flying aircraft. 
 The Irish Times 

It showed footage of a missile launch in desert-like terrain, leaving a vapour trail. 
 The Irish Times 

In a time of darkness smoke stacks are soon lost, a vapour trail drifts in the dawn light. 
 The Irish Times 

As it passed over the Grand Teton National Park, one alert tourist photo-graphed the incandescent fireball and its long vapour trail. 
 The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke 

But there was never any sign of their presence, save an occasional vapour trail high against the blue of the stratosphere. 
 Childhood's End 

Using her ball control, Var moved the pointer up alongside one of the satellites, pausing it on a lengthy vapour trail. 
 The Departure 

Usage of vapor trail in anglès

He was still watching the vapor trail as the cab pulled away. 
 The Penal Cluster 

A straight, narrow line pointed dead ahead: the vapor trail from Teela's flycycle. 
 Ringworld 

I swear she moves so fast she leaves a vapor trail most days. 
 No mercy 

Its vapor trail spread, cold silver on a sky of slate. 
 Timescape 

High above, a white vapor trail streaked a cloudless blue sky. 
 Bones Never Lie 

A jet pulled a vapor trail, pink-gold in the dying light. 
 Flesh and blood 

But I think he's getting tired of trying to navigate through your vapor trail. 
 The bricklayer 

It showed footage of a missile launch in desert-like terrain, leaving a vapor trail. 
 Reuters 

It showed a weird, thin, forked vapor trail-butno airplane. 
 The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects 

Where the cloud bank met the infinity-horizon he searched for the mark of Teela's vapor trail. 
 Ringworld 

Then Lance charged off the starting pad and I couldn't see him through his vapor trail. 
 Crazy for the storm: a memoir of survival 

The photo lab confirmed that the trail was definitely a vapor trail, not a freak cloud formation. 
 The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects 

I sniffed at her vapor trail and settled back into my chair, feeling like a total ninny. 
 Dexter’s Final Cut 

Or a vapor trail from a high-flying jet-seen a hundred times before by the observer-becomesa flying saucer. 
 The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects 

Seconds later he saw the vapor trail appear ahead of him, far down the eye of the horizontal hurricane. 
 Ringworld 

Heat walked through a vapor trail of Scotch as she and Rook followed him through a maze of desks. 
 Deadly Heat 

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Meanings of vapor trail in anglès