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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
aquaplane is a verb and noun meaning "rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aquaplane come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.