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Definition: Floatplane |
FloatplaneNoun1. A seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: FloatplaneSynonym: pontoon plane (n). (additional references) |
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 | Floatplane Landing. Credit: Alaska Image Library. |  | Underway during the later 1930s. A He 60 floatplane is flying overhead. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Off New York City, New York, 21 August 1942. Note barge alongside amidships and OS2U floatplane afloat off her stern. Credit: NAVY. |  | Catapults a Curtiss SO3C "Seamew" floatplane, during her shakedown period, circa October 1943. Note the plane's national insignia, with the red surround briefly used in mid-1943. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Afire after she was hit by a "Kamikaze" attack off Formosa, 21 January 1945. Photographed from USS Miami (CL-89). A Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplane is on the cruiser's starboard catapult, in the foreground. Credit: NAVY. |  | Alongside a repair ship at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 13 March 1945, showing damage to her after flight deck resulting from a "Kamikaze" hit on 11 March. Photographed from a USS Miami (CL-89) floatplane. Credit: NAVY. |
 | With other aviators at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, in 1927, while he was receiving flight training. Officer on the far right end of the rear group of five is Lieutenant Daniel V. Gallery. The aircraft is a Martin SC floatplane, with bomb racks mounted below its wings. Credit: NAVY. |  | Takes aboard aircrewmen of downed aircraft and of a USS North Carolina (BB-55) OS2U floatplane that had landed to rescue them, off Truk on 1 May 1944. Tang was serving as lifeguard submarine during the 29 April-1 May carrier strikes on Truk. Credit: NAVY. |
 | A U.S. Navy SOC "Seagull" floatplane flies over Wotje Atoll, during the attack on the Japanese airfield there by gunfire from USS Salt Lake City (CV-25) and USS Northampton (CA-26)) and fighters from USS Enterprise (CV-6), 1 February 1942. The original picture caption identifies the burning facilities as an ammunition dump and two fuel dumps. Credit: NAVY. |  | Photographed following her 1929-30 refit. She is carrying a Fairey III-F floatplane on her fantail catapult. This catapult was only carried during 1930-33. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Floatplane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Floatplane" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
event floatplane | 11 |
canada floatplane | 10 |
canada event floatplane | 9 |
floatplane | 9 |
2 beaver dhc floatplane | 4 |
air floatplane service | 3 |
beaver de floatplane havillin | 2 |
floatplane sale | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "floatplane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hidroplan (hydroplane). (various references) | |
Czech | plovoucí letadlo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oatplaneflay.(various references) | |
Russian | поплавковый гидросамолет (float-plane). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hidroavion (flying boat, hydroaeroplane, hydroplane, seaplane). (various references) | |
Turkish | deniz uçağı (flying boat, hydro, hydroplane, seaplane, watercraft). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "floatplane": floatplanes. (additional references) | |
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"Floatplane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: floodplane. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-l-l-n-o-p-t" | |
-2 letters: pantofle. | |
-3 letters: apnoeal, floatel, patella, planate, platane, polenta. | |
-4 letters: afloat, apneal, apnoea, atonal, etalon, fallen, foetal, folate, fontal, lanate, lepton, paella, palate, paleal, pallet, pelota, planet, platan, platen, pollen, tapalo, teopan, tolane. | |
-5 letters: alane, alant, alate, allot, aloft, alone, anole, antae, apnea, atoll, atone, faena, fatal, fella, felon, fetal, float, flota, lapel, laten, leant. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-l-l-n-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: floatplanes. | |
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