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spoiler: see airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air.
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spoiler

1. a device fitted to an aircraft wing to increase drag and reduce lift. It is usually extended into the airflow to assist descent and banking

2. a similar device fitted to a car

spoiler [′spȯi·lər]

(aerospace engineering)

A plate, series of plates, comb, tube, bar, or other device that projects into the airstream about a body to break up or spoil the smoothness of the flow, especially such a device that projects from the upper surface of an airfoil, giving an increased drag and a decreased lift.

(electromagnetism)

Rod grating mounted on a parabolic reflector to change the pencil-beam pattern of the reflector to a cosecant-squared pattern; rotating the reflector and grating 90° with respect to the feed antenna changes one pattern to the other.

1.		spoiler - A remark which reveals important plot elements from books or movies, thus denying the reader (of the article) the proper suspense when reading the book or watching the movie.
2.		spoiler - Any remark which telegraphs the solution of a problem or puzzle, thus denying the reader the pleasure of working out the correct answer (see also interesting). Either sense readily forms compounds like "total spoiler", "quasi-spoiler" and even "pseudo-spoiler". By convention, Usenet news articles which are spoilers in either sense should contain the word "spoiler" in the Subject: line, or guarantee via various tricks that the answer appears only after several screens-full of warning, or conceal the sensitive information via rot13, or some combination of these techniques.

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No references found	Yet man can mar such works with his rude taste, Like some sad spoiler of a virgin’s fame. The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized. Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary View in context The red fires died slowly down, within the Castle, and presently the shell grew nearly black outside; the angry glare that shone out through the broken arches and innumerable sashless windows, now, reproduced the aspect which the Castle must have borne in the old time when the French spoilers saw the monster bonfire which they had made there fading and spoiling toward extinction. A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context	SPM SPMD SPML Spock Spock Days/Galaxyfest Spock, Benjamin Spock, Benjamin McLane spod Spode, Josiah, I spodic horizon Spodography Spodosol Spodumene Spoehr, Herman Spofford, Ainsworth Rand Spohr, Louis Spohr, Ludwig spoil spoil area Spoil Bank spoil dam Spoil Dumpers Spoil Dumping Spoil Heap spoilation spoiler spoils system Spokan Spokane Spokane County spoke Spoken Language spokeshave Spoleto Spoleto Festival Spoleto Festival USA spoliation Spoliation, Right of Sponde, Jean de Spondee Spondylarthrosis Spondylitis Spondylitis, Rheumatoid spondyloarthropathy Spondylolisthesis Spondylosis sponge Sponge Bath sponge gold sponge grease sponge iron	spoilable spoilage spoilage spoilage spoilage spoilage spoilage bacteria spoilage bacteria spoilage bacteria spoilage bacteria spoilate spoilation spoilation spoilation spoiled spoiled spoiled spoiled Spoiled brat Spoiled brat Spoiled brat Spoiled Gradient Recalled Spoiled Gradient-Recalled Echo Spoiled milk Spoiled milk Spoiled milk Spoiled milk spoiled priest spoiled rotten Spoiled Rotten Brat spoiler Spoiler Control Electronic Flap Computer Spoiler Elevator Computer Spoilers Spoilers Spoilfive Spoilful spoiling spoiling spoiling spoiling spoiling spoiling spoiling attack spoiling for a fight spoils spoils spoils spoils spoils system spoils system spoils system spoils systems spoils systems spoils systems Spoilsman spoilsmen Spoilsmonger spoilsport Spoilsport (comics) spoilsports

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Yet man can mar such works with his rude taste, Like some sad spoiler of a virgin’s fame.

The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized.

Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary View in context

The red fires died slowly down, within the Castle, and presently the shell grew nearly black outside; the angry glare that shone out through the broken arches and innumerable sashless windows, now, reproduced the aspect which the Castle must have borne in the old time when the French spoilers saw the monster bonfire which they had made there fading and spoiling toward extinction.

A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

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