Subject: Vehicles
Things to travel in.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| aerocab n. (1908) | = aircab n. |
| aerocar n. (1900) | a small, personal flying vehicle |
| aircab n. (1934) | a flying taxicab; cf. earlier aerocab n. |
| aircar n. (1871) | = aerocar n. |
| battleship n. (1900) | a military spaceship having heavy armor and powerful weapons |
| boat n. (1900) | = spaceship n. |
| cityship n. (1953) | a large spacecraft having the size or complexity of a city |
| cruiser n. (1900) | a spaceship, esp. a relatively large and powerful military spaceship |
| earthship n. (1933) | a spacecraft from or belonging to Earth |
| escape pod n. (1976) | a small, minimally equipped spacecraft for emergency use; = lifeboat n. |
| escape ship n. (1932) | = lifeboat n.; lifeship n. |
| ether ship n. (1883) | a spaceship |
| ferry n. (1941) | a small spacecraft used, esp. on a regular schedule, to transport passengers or cargo over a relatively short distance, as between an orbiting craft and a planetβs surface |
| flitter n. (1941) | a small usu. short-range aircraft or spaceship |
| floater n. (1928) | a vehicle or device powered by antigravity; (specif.) an antigravity platform that flies relatively close to the ground |
| flying saucer n. (1947) | any of various unidentified disc- or saucer-shaped objects reported as appearing in the sky, presumed to be of extraterrestrial origin; (hence) a saucer-shaped alien spacecraft |
| generation ship n. (1955) | an interstellar spacecraft in which multiple generations of passengers are born, live, and die before arrival at its destination |
| generation starship n. (1979) | = generation ship n. |
| groundcar n. (1930) | a car incapable of flight (in contrast with an aircar n.) |
| gyrobus n. (1933) | a bus powered by a gyroscopic flywheel; (also) a flying bus |
| gyrocab n. (1942) | a flying taxi |
| helicab n. (1943) | a helicopter serving as a taxi |
| hoverboard n. (1964) | a board, resembling a skateboard without wheels, which hovers above the ground using antigravity technology and may be ridden like a skateboard; cf. earlier hovercar n. |
| hovercar n. (1958) | a car that hovers above the ground, typically conceived as using antigravity technology |
| jet car n. (1946) | a form of aircar powered by jets |
| jumpship n. (1957) | a spaceship that makes interstellar jumps |
| landspeeder n. (1977) | in the fictional universe of the Star Wars franchise: a small vehicle that uses antigravity technology to hover close to the ground |
| lifeboat n. (1907) | a small spacecraft designed for escaping from a damaged spaceship or space station; cf. lifeship n.; escape ship n. |
| lifeship n. (1930) | an emergency spacecraft; lifeboat n. |
| life tube n. (1930) | an escape pod having a cylindrical shape; cf. lifeboat n. |
| message rocket n. (1933) | a (small) rocket used to carry a message |
| moon ship n. (1930) | a spacecraft for travelling to the Moon |
| mother ship n. (1930) | a spacecraft escorting or having charge of a number of other, usually smaller, craft; one from which other craft are launched or controlled |
| NAFAL adj. (1969) | of space travel: at relativistic speed; of a spaceship: capable of travelling at relativistic speed |
| planet-hopper n. 2 (1959) | a small spacecraft used esp. for short journeys between nearby planets, in contrast to one used for interstellar travel |
| rocket-ship n. (1925) | a spacecraft powered by rockets |
| sailship n. (1964) | a spacecraft using a solar sail as its chief method of propulsion |
| scouter n. (1936) | = scout ship n. |
| scout ship n. (1930) | a usu. small and fast spaceship used for reconnaissance |
| ship n. 1 (1898) | a spaceship |
| shuttle n. (1930) | a small spacecraft used to transport passengers or cargo over a relatively short distance, as between an orbiting ship and a planetβs surface, or as a lifeboat |
| shuttlecraft n. (1953) | = shuttle n. |
| skimmer n. (1949) | any of various small vehicles that fly relatively close to the ground, esp. by means of an anti-gravity propulsion system |
| sleeper ship n. (1968) | a spaceship in which most or all of the passengers are in some form of suspended animation such as cold sleep in order to avoid aging during a very long voyage |
| space ark n. (1948) | a large ship designed to move or rescue large numbers of people, often with large ecosystems and many animals and plants on board |
| spaceboat n. (1928) | = spaceship n.; (sometimes specif.) a small spacecraft |
| space bus n. (1929) | a spacecraft designed to ferry people (and sometimes freight) short distances |
| space capsule n. (1943) | a small spacecraft, or self-contained section of a larger one, containing the instruments or crew for a space flight |
| space car n. (1928) | = spacecraft n. |
| spacecraft n. (1929) | any vehicle designed to travel in space |