Blimp

Definitions: Blimp

Blimp

Noun

1. (British) any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low).

2. A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon.

Specialty Definitions: Blimp

Domain	Definitions
Fine Arts	Casing designed to eliminate motor noise. Source: European Union. (references)
	Is a soundproof covering for the camera which prevents camera noise from reaching the microphone when recording dialogue. Source: European Union. (references)
Transportation	An airship in which the internal pressure alone maintains the designed shape of the envelope. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Blimp

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Blimp is an informal term typically applied to non-rigid, helium-filled, airships.

The term 'blimp' is reportedly onomatopoetic, the sound the ship makes when one taps the balloon with a finger. Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A.D. Conningham of the Britsh Royal Navy in 1915.

There is an often repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early 20th century, the US military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid, Type B-limp. Hence 'blimp'. In fact, "there was no American 'A-class' of airships as such—all military aircraft, heavier or ligher-than-air were designated with 'A' until the appearance of B-class airships in May 1917. There was an American B airship—but there seems to be no record of any official designation of non-rigids as 'limp' Further, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the first appearance of the word in print was in 1916, in England, a year before the first B-class airship." (from Etymology of 'Blimp' by Dr. A. D. Topping, AAHS Journal, Winter 1963) The perpetuation of this erroneous explanation is an example of an urban legend.

Goodyear Blimp

Blimps have been popularized by several companies, including Goodyear, Budweiser, and Fujifilm, which use them for advertising, and as platforms to provide aerial shots of sporting events.

During World War I and World War II blimps assisted the United States military in aerial reconnaissance along the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts.

Blimps maintain their form by internal overpressure. Typically, the only solid parts are the passenger car and the tail fins.

A blimp that uses heated air instead of a light gas as lifting medium is sometimes called a hotship.

''See also: airship

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blimp."

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Synonyms: Blimp

Synonyms: sausage (n), sausage balloon (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Blimp

English words defined with "Blimp": barrage balloon ♦ Colonel Blimp ♦ David Low ♦ low ♦ Sir David Alexander Cecil Low. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Blimp" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (blimp).

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Modern Usage: Blimp

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	And a blimp, a big, shiny blimp and it's slowly moving south! (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Don't worry about him. It's the Blimp next to him! (The Cannonball Run; writing credit: Brock Yates) A wimp and a blimp! (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) A wimp and a blimp! (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) Is the Blimp driving? (Cannonball Run II; writing credit: Harvey Miller; Hal Needham)
Lyrics	Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube)
Movie/TV Titles	The Gospel Blimp (1967)
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Commercial Usage: Blimp

Domain	Title
Books	Blimp (reference) Blimp! (reference) I Was a 15-Year-Old Blimp (reference) The Blimp Book (reference) The Complete Colonel Blimp (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection (reference) Blimp Is Back (reference) The Blimp Goes To War Again (reference) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Blimp

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Photo Album: Blimp

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Refueling at sea on 16 December 1944. Photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-31. This was one of a series of experimental refuelings conducted by these two ships during 12-23 December 1944 to develop improved fueling at sea techniques.Credit: NAVY.		Separate, after refueling at sea on 23 December 1944. Photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-31. This was one of a series of experimental refuelings conducted by these two ships during 12-23 December 1944 to develop improved fueling at sea techniques. Hart's camouflage is Measure 31 Design 16d.Credit: NAVY.
	Afloat immediately after launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River yards, Quincy, Massachusetts, 7 December 1942. Several tugs are in attendance and a Navy blimp is overhead.Credit: NAVY.		Operating with a ZPG-2 blimp and an unidentified destroyer of Destroyer Squadron Twenty, during anti-submarine exercises in February 1958.Credit: NAVY.
	Off Cape Henry, Virginia, on 17 April 1944. Photographed by Ensign Keefe, of Blimp squadron ZP-14.Credit: NAVY.		U.S. Army Air Service blimp TA-5, wrecked in a forced landing at Hampton Roads, Virginia on March 10] / Official p.Credit: Library of Congress; photo by U.S. Air Service from Underwood & Underwood..
	View of Civic Center from Goodyear blimp, Aug. 26, 1933.Credit: Library of Congress.		U.S. Navy starts out on patrol duty. Soaring over the Atlantic Ocean, a U.S. Navy blimp is silhouetted against the sparkle of waves. These lighter-than-air craft are used for anti-submarine patrols.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Lincoln Memorial. Army blimp at Lincoln Memorial.Credit: Library of Congress.		Airship. Army blimp C-71 over Alaska Ave.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Blimp

"Blimp" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Blimp" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	60%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	40%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Blimp

Expression using "Blimp": colonel blimp. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Blimp": blimp-style.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blimp

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
blimp	257	advertisement blimp	6
remote control blimp	85	remote controlled blimp	6
goodyear blimp	82	aerial blimp	6
rc blimp	66	sale blimp	5
radio controlled blimp	37	blimp history	5
blimp ride	18	airship blimp controlled remote	5
advertising blimp	17	model blimp	5
r c blimp	15	blimp vw	5
radio control blimp	14	blimp budweiser	5
balloon and blimp	11	blimp stealth	5
blimp life met	9	blimp good year	4
toy blimp	9	blimp film fuji	4
helium blimp	9	blimp hire	4
blimp rental	8	blimp hood	4
blimp fuji	8	blimp navy us	4
blimp outdoor rc	7	blimp photo	4
airship blimp	7	blimp cam	4
blimp photography	7	blimp mini	3
blimp picture	7	blimp kit	3
blimp goodyear ride	6	blimp sanyo	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Blimp

Language		Translations for "Blimp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dirizhabël i vogël zbulimi. (various references)

Arabic		‏منطاد مراقبة صغير, ‏شخص ساذج (sap). (various references)

Bulgarian		малък наблюдателен дирижабъл. (various references)

Chinese		软式小型飞艇. (various references)

Danish		ustift luftskib (non-rigid airship), lyddaemper (muffler, noise damper, silencer, sound absorber, sound moderator). (various references)

Dutch		geluiddempend pantser, drukluchtschip (non-rigid airship). (various references)

Finnish		jäykistämätön ilmalaiva (non-rigid airship). (various references)

French		blindage insonore, petit dirigeable de reconnaissance, dirigeable souple, dirigeable non rigide, culotte de peau, caisson insonore. (various references)

German		Zeppelin (Zeppelin). (various references)

Greek		μικρό αερόστατο, μη άκαμπτο αερόπλοιο (non-rigid airship), απομονωτικό περίβλημα του ήχου. (various references)

Hebrew		בלון פורח, צפלין, ספי� ת אויר (dirigible). (various references)

Hungarian		léghajó (airship, balloon, ship, zeppelin). (various references)

Italian		blindatura insonora, dirigibile non rigido (non-rigid airship). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		飛行船 (airship). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひ�"うせ�" (airship). (various references)

Pig Latin		impblay

Portuguese		blindagem insonora, dirigível flexível (non-rigid airship). (various references)

Russian		звукозаглушающий бокс. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		balon (balloon), dirižabl (airship, dirigible). (various references)

Spanish		patriotero (jingo), dirigible no rígido (non-rigid airship), dirigible (airship, dirigible, guidable, ship), caja de insonorizacion. (various references)

Swedish		blimp, styrbar ballong, ärkereaktionär typ. (various references)

Thai		เครื่องบินที่ลอย�"้วยก๊าซ (ไม่มีปีก), ผู้ที่แก่กว่า โ�"ยเฉพาะในกองทัพ. (various references)

Turkish		sessizleme kutusu, keşif balonu. (various references)

Ukranian		крайній консерватор, незграбна людина (gawk, goon, laggard, lout, oaf, stiff). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Blimp

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Blimp": blimpish, blimpishly, blimpishness, blimpishnesses, blimps. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Blimp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: balim, belim, bimp, bipm, blaim, bli, blim, blime, blimpo, blimpy, Blimy, blina, blinb, blinn, blinq, blipe, blippy, blyme, flimp. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Blimp"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Blimp" (pronounced bli"mp)
4	-l i" m p	limp.
3	-i" m p	chimp, Crimp, imp, pimp, primp, scrimp, shrimp, skimp, wimp.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Blimp

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-i-l-m-p"
	-1 letter: blip, limb, limp.
	-2 letters: imp, lib, lip, mib, mil.
	-3 letters: bi, li, mi, pi.
	Words containing the letters "b-i-l-m-p"
	+1 letter: blimps.
	+2 letters: bumpily, plumbic, upclimb.
	+3 letters: bedimple, bepimple, bioplasm, blimpish, periblem, plumbing, plumbism, upclimbs.
	+4 letters: amblyopia, amblyopic, amphibole, amphiboly, baptismal, bedimpled, bedimples, bepimpled, bepimples, bioplasms, bumpkinly, imputable, periblems, plumbings, plumbisms, upclimbed.
	+5 letters: amblyopias, amphiboles, bedimpling, bepimpling, biopolymer, bipedalism, blimpishly, compatible, compatibly, impalpable, impalpably, impartible, impartibly, impassable, impassably, impassible, impassibly, impeccable, impeccably, implacable, implacably, importable, impossible, impossibly, improbable, improbably, improvable, impugnable, pimpmobile, plumberies, procambial, replumbing, semipublic, suboptimal, upclimbing.
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