hardstand
- noun
- Specialized
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plataforma
- Planes are on their individual hardstands, with ground crews crawling over them.
Examples
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The aircraft is parked on the hardstand, ready for maintenance checks.
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Then they had their guns and gear, had piled aboard the weapons carrier, and were delivered to the hardstand and old 131.
Fiction book (1990) -
From the distant hardstands came the low thunder of engines.
Fiction book (1990) -
He stood back at the edge of the hardstand, gnawing at his fingernails and looking like the new kid on the block.
Fiction book (1990) -
HARDSTAND
Fiction book (1990) -
And it kept it up, catching and dying, dying and catching, jerking them through the grayness toward the plane's hardstand where, a fatigue jacket draped over his head, Lathem waited in the rain.
Fiction book (1990) -
The busy airport had several hardstands where planes awaited takeoff or servicing.
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Before the flight, the passengers boarded the plane at the hardstand with their luggage.
Synonyms
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1.6
A flat area covered with hard material like concrete or stones
A place where carts or animals wait to be loaded for transport
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hardstand comes from the two simple parts hard ('firm' or 'paved') and stand ('a place to stand' or 'station'), so it is literally a 'firm place' where vehicles stand. That's why a hardstand means a paved area for parking, loading, or servicing aircraft and heavy vehicles.