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aquaplane en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- (General-American) audio
- /ˈækwəˌpleɪn/ (General-American)
- /ˈækwəpleɪn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
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”).
Meanings
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(qualifier: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:
Forms
Deriveds
aquaplaning · aquaplaner
Relateds
seaplane · hydrofoil
Translations (8)
fr aquaplane (board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat) · pt aquaplano (board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat) · mk во́дни ски́и (board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat) · it acquaplano (board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat) · ro acvaplan (board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat) · cmn 滑水板 (board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat) · fi vesilauta (board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat) · pl akwaplan (board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat)
aquaplane en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- (General-American) audio
- /ˈækwəˌpleɪn/ (General-American)
- /ˌækwəˈpleɪn/ (General-American)
- /ˈækwəpleɪn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌækwəˈpleɪn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
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”).
Meanings
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(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:
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(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:
Forms
Coordinates
water ski
Synonyms
hydroplane
Translations (13)
pl wpadać w poślizg (of a car, etc.: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle’s tyres sliding on a film of water on the road) · sv vattenplana (of a car, etc.: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle’s tyres sliding on a film of water on the road) · pl wpaść w poślizg (of a car, etc.: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle’s tyres sliding on a film of water on the road) · fi olla vesiliirrossa (of a car, etc.: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle’s tyres sliding on a film of water on the road) · el υδρολίσθηση (of a car, etc.: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle’s tyres sliding on a film of water on the road) · sv få vattenplaning (of a car, etc.: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle’s tyres sliding on a film of water on the road) · es hacer aquaplaning (of a car, etc.: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle’s tyres sliding on a film of water on the road) · pl uprawiać jazdę na akwaplanie (to ride for leisure standing up on a board pulled on a water surface by a motorboat) · fr aquaplaner (of a car, etc.: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle’s tyres sliding on a film of water on the road) · ro acvaplana (of a car, etc.: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle’s tyres sliding on a film of water on the road) · pt aquaplanar (of a car, etc.: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle’s tyres sliding on a film of water on the road) · fi vesilautailla (to ride for leisure standing up on a board pulled on a water surface by a motorboat) · mk скија на вода (to ride for leisure standing up on a board pulled on a water surface by a motorboat)