See Thach weave on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Thach",
"3": "weave"
},
"expansion": "Thach + weave",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Thach + weave. Named after WWII U.S. naval aviator John S. Thach, who invented the manoeuvre.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Thach weaves",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Thach weave (plural Thach weaves)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Aviation",
"orig": "en:Aviation",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Military",
"orig": "en:Military",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A tactic in aerial combat of the World War II era, where two aircraft on patrol fly a parallel course, and if attacked, overlap their flight paths repeatedly, enabling each to protect the other."
],
"id": "en-Thach_weave-en-noun-CxIC72eO",
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"aviation",
"aviation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical, military, aviation) A tactic in aerial combat of the World War II era, where two aircraft on patrol fly a parallel course, and if attacked, overlap their flight paths repeatedly, enabling each to protect the other."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"topics": [
"aeronautics",
"aerospace",
"aviation",
"business",
"engineering",
"government",
"military",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"politics",
"war"
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:John S. Thach",
"en:Thach weave"
]
}
],
"word": "Thach weave"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Thach",
"3": "weave"
},
"expansion": "Thach + weave",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Thach + weave. Named after WWII U.S. naval aviator John S. Thach, who invented the manoeuvre.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Thach weaves",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Thach weave (plural Thach weaves)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with historical senses",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Aviation",
"en:Military"
],
"glosses": [
"A tactic in aerial combat of the World War II era, where two aircraft on patrol fly a parallel course, and if attacked, overlap their flight paths repeatedly, enabling each to protect the other."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"aviation",
"aviation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical, military, aviation) A tactic in aerial combat of the World War II era, where two aircraft on patrol fly a parallel course, and if attacked, overlap their flight paths repeatedly, enabling each to protect the other."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"topics": [
"aeronautics",
"aerospace",
"aviation",
"business",
"engineering",
"government",
"military",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"politics",
"war"
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:John S. Thach",
"en:Thach weave"
]
}
],
"word": "Thach weave"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Thach weave meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (142890b and 1d3fdbf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.