emplane
/im'plein/ Cách viết khác : (enplane) /in'plein/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To board an aircraft: The act of entering and taking a seat on an airplane for a flight.
Usage
- Transitive Verb: To cause someone or something to board a plane.
- The airline staff will emplane the passengers shortly.
- Intransitive Verb: To board a plane oneself.
- We are scheduled to emplane at 3 PM.
Examples
- Transitive Usage:
- The soldiers were emplaned for their deployment overseas.
- The cargo was carefully emplaned before takeoff.
- Intransitive Usage:
- Please proceed to Gate 5 to emplane.
- Passengers with small children may emplane first.
Advanced Usage
- "To emplane on": To board a specific flight or aircraft.
- The team will emplane on the charter flight to the championship.
Variants and Related Words
- Enplane: An alternative spelling with identical meaning and usage.
- Passengers should enplane through the rear door.
- Emplaning/Enplaning (Present Participle/Gerund): The process of boarding.
- The emplaning of the passengers took longer than expected.
- Emplanement/Enplanement (Noun): The act or instance of boarding an aircraft; also used in aviation statistics to count boarding passengers.
- The airport reported a record number of enplanements this month.
Synonyms
- Board: To get on a vehicle (a more general term).
- Embark: To go on board a ship or aircraft (often implies the beginning of a journey).
Antonyms
- Deplane: To disembark or get off an airplane.
- Disembark: To leave a ship or aircraft.