AQUAPLANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aquaplane mean? 

• AQUAPLANE (noun)
  The noun AQUAPLANE has 1 sense:

1. a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water

  Familiarity information: AQUAPLANE used as a noun is very rare.

• AQUAPLANE (verb)
  The verb AQUAPLANE has 2 senses:

1. rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road

2. ride on an aquaplane

  Familiarity information: AQUAPLANE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AQUAPLANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("aquaplane" is a kind of...):

board (a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose)

Derivation:

aquaplane (ride on an aquaplane)

• AQUAPLANE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they aquaplane    ... he / she / it aquaplanes   
Past simple: aquaplaned   
Past participle: aquaplaned   
-ing form: aquaplaning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

the car aquaplaned

Hypernyms (to "aquaplane" is one way to...):

plane; skim (travel on the surface of water)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

These cars won't aquaplane

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ride on an aquaplane

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "aquaplane" is one way to...):

plane; skim (travel on the surface of water)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

aquaplane (a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water)

 Context examples 

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.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)