Usage of "vapour 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.

Sinónimos

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 

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 

Uso de vapour trail en inglés

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 

Sometimes when he was at his computer at a late hour, he would pick up a faint vapour trail left by Rufus. 
 Bryant & may on the loose: a peculiar crimes unit mystery 

Even as Clyde and Lora watched, the gleaming vapour trail began to fray at its edges, breaking up into wisps of cloud. 
 The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke 

As a high-flying jet may leave a vapour trail behind it, so the outward-bound vessel of the Overlords left its own peculiar wake. 
 Childhood's End 

She turned her head to track his progress, as he began leaving a vapour trail, before disappearing in light too bright to gaze at directly. 
 The Departure 

Clare, led by Tony Kelly, had to travel through their vapour trails. 
 The Irish Times 

Vapour trails scribble across the sky, converging into man-made clouds that blur the sun. 
 The Guardian 

White vapour trailed after him and hung and dispersed. 
 61 hours 

Last week the criss-crossed vapour trails of MiG jets hung once again over the Panjshir valley. 
 The Guardian 

Narrow swirls of light would sweep across the great dome of sky, then hang there like vapour trails. 
 Neither here nor there: travels in europe 

There were no haints now; instead the air was a dilute milk of their residue tracked through with vapour trails. 
 Iron Council 

Through the cams she'd also seen an enforcer crawl out of that same crawler, issuing vapour trails from his breached suit. 
 The Departure 

Lengua de interfaz

Significados de vapour trail en inglés