Tatiana Schlossberg

The ocean is loud: Ship propellers, sonar, oil and gas drilling and other industrial work make sounds, even if, like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, no one can hear it.

John Travolta

When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

American Actor

Norman MacCaig

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Scottish Poet

Orville Wright

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

American Inventor

Whitney Wolfe Herd

When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.

American Businesswoman

Used for parts of machines that move, especially in boats and airplanes.

Mechanical Context

Often mentioned when there are mechanical issues or maintenance.

Technical Issues

Implies a forward or propelling movement in water or air.

Action Implication

Represents a driving force in abstract situations.

Metaphorical Usage

Human characteristics can be highlighted when calling someone a propeller.

Personification Aspect

Generally carries a positive implication of progress and effort.

Positive Connotation

 after john doe von the wreck and came up and looked at me and said barry there's nothing but sand we decided how we're going to go through the sand we'd built two mailboxes which is able to divert the energy from the propellers as the propellers spin and the energy from that the water stream is

Barry Clifford: Pirate...

 that was that we did not have a plausible mode of locomotion for this animal you know we kind of said well maybe it's kind of paddling with its hind feet but essentially we didn't have a motor that would move this thing through the water you know what exactly like a propeller like uh exactly

The Strange Tail of...

 in stop-and-go traffic, to a custom-designed gearbox that powers either the propeller when you're flying or the wheels on the ground, to the automated wing-folding mechanism that we'll see in a moment, to crash safety features. We have a carbon fiber safety cage that protects the occupants

Anna Mracek Dietrich: A...

 Helicopters, for example, are affectionately known as machines with a thousand moving parts all conspiring to do you bodily harm. It turns out that decades ago, skilled pilots were able to fly remote-controlled aircraft that had only two moving a propeller and a tail rudder.

Meet the dazzling flying...

 and the research to achieve it with the help of these flying machines called quadrocopters, or quads, for short. Quads have been around for a long time. They're so popular these days because they're mechanically simple. By controlling the speeds of these four propellers,

The astounding athletic...

 by sliming up their propellers. In addition to mastering the art of slime and knot-tying, hagfish have four little hearts and can survive 36 hours without oxygen unscathed. Oh, and they also clean the seafloor and cycle essential nutrients in the deep sea.

Hagfish: The world's...

 other institution in the world the casualties elephant seals sea lions and harbor seals are mostly beached or disease ridden some are brought in with wounds from boat propellers or sadly even gunshots in the hospital and orphaned harbor seal is in need of

Orphaned Baby Seal PIPE...

 deafening sound you look up massive boat propellers above your head of thrashing the water as you move down lower you see more and more of the oceans degradation you reach the coral it's dead but then a guide beckons you closer she holds her

The role of disruption...

 hit by boat propellers the new Three Gorges Dam the largest hydroelectric dam in the world will present another threat to these giant fish from the perspective of a fish there's nothing that affects the environment like a dam the Chinese

"Giant Fish" Faces Big...

 water drove the sub deeper with one pointed up water flowing beneath lifted it toward the surface everything from the narrow knife shaped cut water in the bow to the perfectly shaped three-blade propeller in the back was all designed

Propeller