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aquaplane

Syllables: aqua·plane/ˈækwəpleɪn//ˈækwəˌpleɪn/

aquaplane noun: a board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat.

Noun

aquaplane (plural aquaplanes)

  1. (water sports) A board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat.
    • At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter III, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 47

Verb

aquaplane (third-person singular simple present aquaplanes, present participle aquaplaning, simple past and past participle aquaplaned)

  1. (intransitive) To ride for leisure standing up on a board pulled on a water surface by a motorboat.
    • She waved her arm—a significant and imperative signal—but she realised, almost as she did it, that there was scant chance of any one aquaplaning at thirty or forty kilometres an hour looking to the right or to the left.1933, E[dward] Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 1, in Crooks in the Sunshine, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart, →OCLC
  2. (UK, broadly, intransitive) Of a car or other road vehicle: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle's tyres sliding on a film of water on the road.
    • So much water. They were held up by it, the tyres skating over a film of rain. Aquaplaning. Flying his sister’s fancy car through the wet air. Touching nothing.2015, Anne Enright, “Shannon Airport”, in The Green Road, New York, N.Y.; London: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, →ISBN, part 2, page 203
    Synonyms:
    hydroplane

aquaplane meaning in Tamil

aquaplane in Tamil

நீர்செல் தளம், விரைவோடப் பலகை மீது ஏறு

Synonyms of aquaplane

Forms of aquaplane

Noun
pluralaquaplanes
Verb
third-person singular presentaquaplanes
present participleaquaplaning
past participleaquaplaned
pastaquaplaned

Origin of aquaplane

PIE word *h₂ékʷeh₂ The noun is derived from aqua- (prefix meaning ‘water’) + plane (“flat or level surface”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”)). The verb is derived from the noun, and is analysable as aqua- + plane (“to glide; to soar; to skim a water surface”).

Words formed from aquaplane

Questions about aquaplane

What does aquaplane mean?
Aquaplane means a board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat.
What is aquaplane in Tamil?
Aquaplane in Tamil is நீர்செல் தளம், விரைவோடப் பலகை மீது ஏறு. See Aquaplane meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is aquaplane?
Aquaplane can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce aquaplane?
Aquaplane is pronounced /ˈækwəpleɪn/ (UK).
What is the plural of aquaplane?
The plural of aquaplane is aquaplanes.

Words near aquaplane in the dictionary

  1. aquaphobia
  2. aquaphobic
  3. aquaphobics
  4. aquaphone
  5. aquaphones
  6. aquaplane
  7. aquaplaned
  8. aquaplaner
  9. aquaplaners
  10. aquaplanes
  11. aquaplanet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aquaplane (page history and authors); aquaplane (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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