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How to spell airline

Airline is spelled A-I-R-L-I-N-E.

hear itair·line/'ɜr,laɪn/nounRules and real life

What it means: A company that provides flights.

In a sentence: We took an airline to fly to Grandma's house.

Same family: air, airway, airflow, airpipe, compressed-air. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “airline” here is a compound of “air” and “line,” where “line” means a pipe or hose that carries something. In engineering, many pipes are called ‘lines,’ such as fuel lines, gas lines, and air lines.

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