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aquaplane

aquaplane

1 8.6
A board a boat pulls that a person stands on to skim across water
  • noun
  • /ˈækwəˌpleɪn/
  • Archaic
: aeroplano acuático
  • And the skunk—which never troubled him in clear weather—seemed to slick his brain, so that an injudicious thought might result in a psychic aquaplane.

Examples

  • A technique suggested to accomplish this is with an aquaplane (Miller, 1979), which is also referred to as a mania-board.

    Academic text (1994)

  • He enjoyed the thrill of gliding across the water on his aquaplane behind the speedboat.

  • During the summer, many people use an aquaplane to skim across the surface of the lake.

  • The instructor showed us how to balance on the aquaplane while being towed by the boat.

Synonyms

wakeboard
vsaquaplane
1 4.1

A board like a small surfboard that you stand on while a boat pulls you across water

is designed to skim flat across the water surface rather than surf style riding

Surface Forms

aquaplane singular
aquaplanes plural

Morphology

aquaplane = aqua + plane (transparent) = aqua + plane

The compound 'aqua' (water) + 'plane' (a surface/object that planes) directly describes a board that skims on water, so the compound is predictable.

Etymology

Aquaplane comes from aqua 'water' and plane 'to glide', the same idea as in airplane. So an aquaplane is a flat board that glides across the water when a boat tows it.