airbag
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airbag (plural airbags)
- (automotive) A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.
- 1997, “Airbag”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:
- In a fast German car / I'm amazed that I survived / An airbag saved my life
- 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:
- However, the challenges for the railway world are much greater than for automotive as we generally have more occupants, higher speeds, greater masses, higher energies, and an absence of seatbelts or airbags to contend with.
- A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, etc.
- 2005, Alan Tussy, R. Gustafson, Developmental Mathematics for College Students, page 1030:
- As part of a scene in a movie, a stuntman falls from the top of a 95-foot-tall building into a large airbag directly below him on the ground, as shown in Figure 15-3.
- (slang) A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip.
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protective system in automobiles
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Dutch edit
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Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.
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- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˈɛːr.bɛk/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: air‧bag
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airbag m (plural airbags, diminutive airbagje n)
- An airbag.
- Synonym: botsballon
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airbag m (plural airbags)
Further reading edit
- “airbag”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
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Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.
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airbag m (invariable)
- airbag (protective system)
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- ^ airbag in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.
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airbag m (plural airbags)
Romanian edit
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Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.
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airbag n (plural airbaguri)
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Declension of airbag
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) airbag | airbagul | (niște) airbaguri | airbagurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) airbag | airbagului | (unor) airbaguri | airbagurilor |
vocative | airbagule | airbagurilor |
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- (nonstandard) air bag
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- IPA(key): /aiɾˈbaɡ/ [ai̯ɾˈβ̞aɣ̞]
- IPA(key): (nonstandard) /eɾˈbaɡ/ [eɾˈβ̞aɣ̞]
- Rhymes: -aɡ
- Syllabification: air‧bag
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airbag m (plural airbags)
- airbag
- 1997, Jesús Calvo Martín, Mecánica del automóvil actual, Reverte, →ISBN, page 218:
- En un futuro el sistema de control del airbag podrá determinar las características del ocupante e incluso ya se piensa en un airbag que proteja a los peatones en caso de atropello.
- In the future, the airbag control system will be able to determine the characteristics of the occupant, and they're already thinking about an airbag that could protect pedestrians in case of accident.
Further reading edit
- “airbag”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Unadapted borrowing from English airbag, attested since the 1970s.
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airbag c
- an airbag
- Synonym: krockkudde
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Nominative | airbag | airbagen | airbagar | airbagarna |
Genitive | airbags | airbagens | airbagars | airbagarnas |
Derived terms edit
- airbaghjälm (“airbag helmet”)
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Unadapted borrowing from English airbag.
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airbag (definite accusative airbagi, plural airbagler)