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Lucas21c Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Push back off the gate
Could you tell me what the underlined 'push back off the gate' means in the following sentence?
Thank you.
When you push back off the gate, you`re going to be talking to an air traffic controller from the minute you start taxing to the runway till you get to your final destination.
Thank you.
When you push back off the gate, you`re going to be talking to an air traffic controller from the minute you start taxing to the runway till you get to your final destination.
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that means when the plane moves away from the gate to go out to the runway.
- that means when the plane moves away from the gate to go out to the runway.
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that means when the plane moves away from the gate to go out to the runway.
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If so, why the speaker(or native speakers) expressed it by using the word, 'push back?'
I do push back what?
The thing that moves to take off is the plane, not me. (The original sentence, you know, is 'When you push back off the gate')
I can't get any clue at all to the relation between the usual meaning of the word and the picture of a plane taxing to the runway.
Cou
I do push back what?
The thing that moves to take off is the plane, not me. (The original sentence, you know, is 'When you push back off the gate')
I can't get any clue at all to the relation between the usual meaning of the word and the picture of a plane taxing to the runway.
Cou
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Well, that is an expression used at airports mostly, I've never known it to be used anywhere else. Why do they use it? I don't know, that would be a question for somebody who works in an airport. I do know that airplanes do no have a reverse gear, so they are pushed by a vehicle out away from the gate, so they can then use their own engines to proceed to the runway. So maybe it has to do with the
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