people pod
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mobile cabin that attaches to an aircraft or helicopter.
noun
A bus-like compartment carried by a lift truck, proposed in the late 1950s for transporting people and luggage from the airport terminal to an aircraft.
noun
A driverless electric car for transporting a single person.
Example Sentences
- "With a people pod snugged underneath, it can even transport troops."
- "Innovations such as the helicopter-carried people pod now being demonstrated in Los Angeles may be in use by 1980."
- "Additionally the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, located at Ft. Rucker, AL sent a team to test the toxic gas levels inside the people pods, when flying with doors open."
- "Using its own money, the company has spent a year designing and building a people pod to hang from the wing of an AV-8B Harrier jump jet."
- "It could lift a 155mm howitzer, or a van-like “people pod” taking 45 troops and was also capable of being fitted out as a command post or an emergency operating room."
- "Its concept is as follows: "Passengers are to be transported from the terminal together with baggage in a detachable bus-like compartment called a people pod on a lift truck."