propeller

• propellor (rare, nonstandard)

From propel + -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpɛl.ə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpɛl.ɚ/

  • Audio (California):

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpel.ə/

propeller (plural propellers)

1. One who, or that which, propels.
2. A mechanical device with evenly-shaped blades that turn on a shaft to push against air or water, especially one used to propel an aircraft or boat.

   The plane’s propeller spun rapidly before takeoff.

   The boat is powered by a single propeller.

   He repaired the damaged propeller after the storm.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 361:

     "No motor," Tranny says. "It snag bad."
     Right. The spiderweb would get wrapped around the propeller.

3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
4. (fishing) A spinnerbait.

• prop
• propulsion

• → Dutch: propeller
• → German: Propeller
• → Swedish: propeller
• → Ukrainian: пропе́лер (propéler)

• propel

Borrowed from English propeller.

• IPA^(key): /propɛlər/, [pʰʁ̥oˈpɛlˀɐ]

propeller c (singular definite propelleren, plural indefinite propellere)

1. propeller (mechanical device used to propel)

propeller c

1. indefinite plural of propel

Borrowed from English propeller.

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːˈpɛ.lər/

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• Hyphenation: pro‧pel‧ler
• Rhymes: -ɛlər

propeller m (plural propellers, diminutive propellertje n)

1. a propeller

   Synonym: aandrijfschroef

• bootschroef
• luchtschroef
• scheepsschroef
• vliegtuigschroef
• wiek

propeller m

1. indefinite plural of propell

From English propeller.

propeller c

1. propeller

• “propeller”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)