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1. AAF in A, n. View full entry 1925
...Auxiliary Air Force....
2. A.C.H. in A, n. View full entry 1925
...= aircraft handaircraft2....
3. ADGB in A, n. View full entry 1926
...Air Defence of Great Britain....
4. AF in A, n. View full entry 1919
...air force; cf. R.A.F., U.S.A.F.U1a, etc....
5. AFB in A, n. View full entry 1950
...air force base....
6. AFC in A, n. View full entry 1919
...Air Force Cross....
7. AFM in A, n. View full entry 1919
...Air Force Medal....
8. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry 1916
...Esp. in the First World War (191418) and Second World War (193945): a pilot, aerial gunner, etc., who has shot down many enemy aircraft....
9. air, n.1 View full entry 1917
...The air regarded as the medium for operation of aircraft; (also) aircraft or aerial power collectively. by air: by means of (an) aircraft. ...
10. air, n.1 View full entry 1874
...In sense ‘of or relating to the air as a sphere of offensive or defensive operations; involved or used in aerial combat’, as air alert, air attack, ...
11. air armament in air, n.1 View full entry 1918
...the forces, aircraft, and other equipment belonging to an air force; the equipping or strengthening of an air force....
12. airbase in air, n.1 View full entry 1913
...a base for the operation of military aircraft....
13. air bomber in air, n.1 View full entry 1918
...a person who aims bombs launched or dropped from an aircraft;= bomber2....
14. air-burst in air, n.1 View full entry 1917
...the bursting of a shell or bomb in the air....
15. air-burst in air, n.1 View full entry 1946
...intr. (of a shell or bomb) to burst in the air....
16. Air Chief Marshal in air, n.1 View full entry 1919
...(the title of) a high rank of officer in the Royal Air Force, above air marshal and below Marshal of the Royal Air Force....
17. Air Commodore in air, n.1 View full entry 1919
...(the title of) a rank of officer in the Royal Air Force, above group captain and below air vice-marshal....
18. air control in air, n.1 View full entry 1915
...control of an area by means of air power (in quot. 1915spec. to give the correct range for artillery fire);= air traffic control...
19. air cover in air, n.1 View full entry 1941
...protection by aircraft during a military operation....
20. aircrew in air, n.1 View full entry 1921
...the crew of an aircraft;(with pl. concord) the members of such a crew collectively....
