different between airplane vs boredom

English

Alternative forms

• aeroplane (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, UK), aëroplane

Etymology

air +? plane, alteration of aeroplane

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ple?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?????ple??n/

Noun

airplane (plural airplanes)

1. (US, Canada) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
   • 1999, "I Never Met the Dead Man", season 1, episode 2 of Family Guy

     Lois: Come on, Stewie. You know you can't leave the table until you finish your vegetables. […] Sweetie, it's broccoli. It's good for you. Now open up for the airplane.

Derived terms

• paper airplane

Translations

Verb

airplane (third-person singular simple present airplanes, present participle airplaning, simple past and past participle airplaned)

1. (intransitive) To fly in an aeroplane.
2. (transitive) To transport by aeroplane.

See also

• aircraft
• glider
• helicopter

Anagrams

• perianal

English

Etymology

From bore +? -dom.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??.d?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??.d?m/

Noun

boredom (usually uncountable, plural boredoms)

1. (uncountable) The state of being bored.
   • 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter XII

     […] only last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.

2. (countable) An instance or period of being bored; A bored state.
   • 1995, Martin Heidegger, William McNeill, Nicholas Walker (translators), The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, page 107,

     If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more bored than in the situation we have characterized.

   • See more citations at boredoms.

Synonyms

• (state of being bored): ennui

Related terms

• bore
• bored
• boring

Translations

See also

• accidie
• acedia
• ennui

Anagrams

• bed-room, bedroom, broomed