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Meanings of empennage in English

Portuguese
empenagem
Catalan
cua
Spanish
lado trasero

The rear part of an aircraft.

        empenagem
        Synonyms
        Examples for "tail"
        Examples for "tail"
        1
        The Russian civil war is dragging its mortal tail through eastern Europe.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Responses in tail arteries were not significantly different among the different groups.
        Pubmed
        3
        She opened it and found the tail of the little china dog.
        Septimus
        4
        And the little dog in the corner wagged his tail and said:
        Folk Tales from the Russian
        5
        The body and bones we could easily construct; and the tail too.
        The Cliff Climbers / A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
        1
        He looked back toward the tail assembly, at the one who had spoken.
        Lord of Light
        2
        The tail assembly had been demolished and a rock had punched through one of the overhead compartments.
        Moonfall
        3
        A man crawled over the tail assembly and found one small hole in the fabric of the stabilizer.
        Space Platform
        4
        There was a long pause, and then she emerged from the shadows of the tail assembly, shard blaster hanging at her side.
        Woken furies
        5
        Landing was a matter of reversing the process and shizzing back into its helicopter mode to set down on its ample tail assembly.
        Wired
        Usage of empennage in English
        1
        His torch roved over the ridiculously inadequate tail empennage facing them.
        Dogs of war
        2
        He stared up at the tail section, the empennage as someone called it, waiting to be consumed.
        The man who ate the 747
        3
        So the heat rejection complex waxed enormous and ended up growing generally aftward, like an empennage-thefeathers on the butt of an arrow.
        Seveneves
        4
        When they were shot out of the tag stat's nose, they sprouted cruel barbs at the nose and a simple empennage at the tail.
        The Diamond Age
        5
        Sometimes termed "tail-first" aeroplanes, but such term is erroneous, as in such a design the main lifting surface acts as, and is, the empennage.
        The Aeroplane Speaks
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for empennage
        Catalan
        cua
        Empennage through the time