" air "

[Noun]  | "air" | \ ˈer \

1: the mixture of invisible odorless tasteless gases (such as nitrogen and oxygen) that surrounds the earth; also : the equivalent mix of gases on another celestial object (such as a planet)

2: a light breeze

3: breath

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin aer, from Greek aēr air;

[Noun]  | "air ball" 

1: a shot that completely misses the rim and backboard

Origin: 1967 ;

[Noun]  | "air base" 

1: a military base chiefly for the operation of aircraft

Origin: 1913 ;

[Noun]  | "air bed" 

1: a soft, airtight plastic case that is designed to be inflated and used as a bed : air mattress

Origin: 1809 ;

[Noun]  | "air bladder" 

1: a sac containing gas and especially air : such as

2: a saclike organ present in most bony fishes which contains gas and especially oxygen and nitrogen and that serves chiefly to control buoyancy and in some primitive fish (such as the lungfish) functions as an accessory respiratory organ —called also swim bladder

3: a gas- or air-filled vesicle in certain algae and aquatic plants (such as rockweed) that helps keep photosynthetic blades and fronds buoyant —called also pneumatocyst

Origin: 1675 ;

[Noun]  | "air brake" 

1: a brake operated by a piston driven by compressed air

2: a surface that may be projected into the airstream for increasing drag and lowering the speed of an airplane

Origin: 1846 ;

[Noun]  | "air chief marshal" 

1: a commissioned officer in the British air force who ranks with a general in the army

Origin: 1919 ;

[Noun]  | "air commodore" 

1: a commissioned officer in the British air force who ranks with a brigadier in the army

Origin: 1919 ;

[Verb]  | "air" 

1: to expose to the air for drying, purifying, or refreshing : ventilate —often used with out

2: to expose to public view or bring to public notice

3: to transmit by radio or television

Origin: 1530 ;

 See: ;

[Adjective]  | "air-breath*ing" | \ ˈer-ˌbrē-t͟hiŋ \

1: of, employing, or being an engine that requires air for combustion

Origin: 1938 ;

[Noun]  | "air" 

[Noun]  | "air bases" 

[Noun]  | "air base" 

[Noun]  | "air-cushion vehicles" 

[Verb]  | "air" 

[Verb]  | "air-dried" 

[Verb]  | "air-conditions" 

[Verb]  | "air-dries" 

[Verb]  | "air-conditioned" 

[Verb]  | "air-dry"