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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
3. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
4. aircraft, n. View full entry 1845
...Any of various vehicles capable of flight; (originally) a hot-air balloon; an airship (now chiefly hist.); (subsequently) an aeroplane or other heavier-than-air machine....
5. air force, n. View full entry 1911
...A large force of military aircraft; a branch of a nation's armed forces concerned with carrying out military operations in the air. Cf. R.A.F. and U.S.A.F.U1a....
6. air gunner, n. View full entry 1916
...A gunner in a military aircraft....
7. air gunnery, n. View full entry 1926
...The skill or practice of aiming and firing guns from on board a military aircraft (also) a division of an army or air force concerned with this....
8. airman, n. View full entry 1873
...A man engaged in the flying or operation of an aircraft, esp. as a pilot or member of an air crew. Also: a member of an air force....
9. air raid, n. View full entry 1914
...An attack by aircraft, esp. one in which bombs are dropped on to a ground target....
10. air-to-air, adj. View full entry 1939
...Directed from one aircraft to another while both are in flight; carried out between aircraft in flight....
11. airwoman, n. View full entry 1910
...A woman who is engaged in the flying or operation of aircraft, esp. as a pilot or member of an air crew. Also: a female member of the Royal Air Force below...
12. angel, n. View full entry c950
...A ministering spirit or divine messenger; one of an order of spiritual beings superior to man in power and intelligence, who, according to the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other theologies, are the...
13. angel, v. View full entry 1929
...trans. To finance or back (an enterprise, esp. a theatrical production). slang (chiefly U.S.)....
14. apron, n. View full entry 1307
...An article of dress, originally of linen, but now also of stuff, leather, or other material, worn in front of the body, to protect the clothes from dirt or injury, or simply...
15. area, n. View full entry a1552
...A vacant piece of ground, a level space not built over or otherwise occupied; a clear or open space within a building, such as the unseated part of a church, the arena...
16. arm, n.2 View full entry a1250
...Defensive covering or appendages for the body; armour, mail. Now poet....
17. army, n. View full entry c1386
...An armed expedition by sea or land. Obs....
18. atom-bomb, v. View full entry 1945
...trans. To drop an atom bomb on....
19. atom-bombed, adj. View full entry 1945
...Having been hit or destroyed by an atom bomb....
20. atom bombing, n. View full entry 1945
...The action or an act of attacking by dropping an atom bomb....
