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hydroplane
[ hahy-druh-pleyn ]
noun
- a seaplane.
- an attachment to an airplane enabling it to glide on the water.
- a light, high-powered boat, especially one with hydrofoils or a stepped bottom, designed to plane along the surface of the water at very high speeds.
- a horizontal rudder for submerging or elevating a submarine.
hydroplane
/ ˈhaɪdrəʊˌpleɪn /
noun
- a motorboat equipped with hydrofoils or with a shaped bottom that raises its hull out of the water at high speeds
- an attachment to an aircraft to enable it to glide along the surface of water
- See seaplaneanother name (esp US) for a seaplane
- a horizontal vane on the hull of a submarine for controlling its vertical motion
verb
- intr (of a boat) to rise out of the water in the manner of a hydroplane
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hydroplane1
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Example Sentences
At ninety feet the Captain spoke again, and the hydroplane-wheels spun as her downward way was checked.
"E 50" came out of the affair with the loss of her port-bow hydroplane and a few dents.
A few hands keep watch on the hydroplane wheels, the pumps, and the motors; the rest take it easy.
There is a kind of machine sometimes called a hydroplane but which we are gradually getting to call a sea-plane.
And it really can sail in the air or on the icelike a hydroplane?
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