Word of the Day:
hovercraft
What It Means
A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.
Hovercraft in Context
“The snapshot shows the whale parallel above the water almost as if it’s competing in belly-flop contest, doing a midair plank or floating across the bay like a hovercraft.”
Did You Know?
From hover + -craft. Originally a trademark by Saunders-Roe Limited, a British aero- and marine-engineering company.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hovercraft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.
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