AIRLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does airline mean? 

• AIRLINE (noun)
  The noun AIRLINE has 2 senses:

1. a hose that carries air under pressure

2. a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers

  Familiarity information: AIRLINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIRLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hose that carries air under pressure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

air hose; airline

Hypernyms ("airline" is a kind of...):

hose; hosepipe (a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

airline; airline business; airway

Hypernyms ("airline" is a kind of...):

line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)

Meronyms (parts of "airline"):

fleet (group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership)

Derivation:

airliner (a commercial airplane that carries passengers)

 Context examples 

The finding may eventually lead to therapies that could benefit people in occupations requiring long stretches of wakefulness, from military to airline piloting.

(Muscle, Not Brain, May Hold Answers to Some Sleep Disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Or you may opt into what the airlines call an open-jaw flight, where you fly to one city and return from another, flying between the two, making for three trips.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)