nosefirst
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adv
Example Sentences
- "At this point in time — approximately 300 feet above the ground— the aircraft was rapidly descending downward in a nosefirst attitude."
- "However the drawback to this approach is that the nosefirst attitude is aerodynamically unstable since the aft mounted engine package pulls the empty center of gravity a considerable distance behind the hypersonic center of pressure."
- "Her snow machine was nosefirst in the snowbank on the right-hand side of the creek."
- "The defeat was made complete when Morton's only functioning follower ran nosefirst into the point of a sword held by one of Standish's men."
- "The sight of a destroyer slipping nosefirst beneath the water, carrying its crew to their deaths, was something that I could no longer watch."
- "It dropped nosefirst, and though Russell tried to get the nose to rise, the weight of the engine forced it down."
Inflected Forms
more nosefirst (comparative)
most nosefirst (superlative)