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take off
What the picture shows
A passenger airplane tilts its nose upward as its landing gear lifts just inches above the tarmac runway into the open sky.
Meaning: leave the ground and fly
User hint
a passenger airplane at the exact moment its wheels leave the runway, nose pointing up, the runway stretching behind it, seen from the side
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