Seaplane

Definitions: Seaplane

Seaplane

Noun

1. An airplane that can land on or take off from water; "the designer of marine aircraft demonstrated his newest hydroplane".

Verb

1. Glide on the water in a hydroplane.

Specialty Definitions: Seaplane

Domain	Definitions
Transportation	An aeroplane fitted with floats to allow it to operate from a water surface. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Seaplane

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A seaplane is an aircraft designed to take off and land on water.

Seaplanes can only take off and land on water in good weather and little or no wave action. An amphibian can take off and land on both conventional runways and on water, where a true seaplane can only take off and land on water.

Some light aircraft can be modified into seaplanes by the addition of large pontoons instead of skids or wheels.

One of the largest users of seaplanes are rescue organizations such as coast guards because the same aircraft can be used for spotting and rescuing survivors. Seaplanes are much more fuel-efficient than helicopters and unlike helicopters, can land when they run out of fuel, weather permitting.

Seaplanes are often used in remote areas such as Alaska and the Canadian outback, especially in areas with a large number of lakes convenient for takeoff and landing.

During World War I and II, many navies used seaplanes for reconaissance and anti-submarine warfare. Most battleships carried one or two seaplanes to spot targets over the horizon for the big guns. However, seaplanes are mostly considered obsolete for military purposes.

One famous seaplane was called the Catalina.

See: Flying boat

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Synonym: Seaplane

Synonym: hydroplane (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Seaplane

English words defined with "seaplane": floatplane, flying boat ♦ pontoon, pontoon plane. (references)

Specialty definitions using "seaplane": boat seaplane ♦ Seaplane Base. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Seaplane

Domain	Title
Books	Buzz the Little Seaplane (Grosset & Dunlap All Aboard Book.) (reference) Heinkel He 115: Torpedo/Reconnaissance/Mine Layer Seaplane of the Luftwaffe (reference) Multiengine and seaplane flight maneuvers and handbook (reference) Notes of a Seaplane Instructor: An Instructional Guide to Seaplane Flying (reference) Pan Am Pioneer: A Manager's Memoir from Seaplane Clippers to Jumbo Jets (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Seaplane

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Photo Album: Seaplane

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sounding in Salton Sea for seaplane landing site Part of war project to establish seaplane landing sites Sites used for ferrying seaplanes across United States.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Checking boatsheet during wiredrag survey of Mitchell Jordan Reservoir Plastic three-arm protractor for plotting fixes barely visible under hand Surveying reservoir for seaplane landing site during WWII ferrying operations Wiredrag party of Max G. Ricketts.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Seaplane taking off from the Tchefunte River to East Timbalier Island area.Credit: America's Coastlines.		Seaplane departing Gig Harbor.Credit: America's Coastlines.
	The Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER III - still in Navy gray following World War II. This PIONEER was converted from the USS MOBJACK AVP-30, a seaplane tender.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		In a Curtiss type "A" seaplane, at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, circa 1916. After completing flight school in that year, he was designated Naval Aviator Number 33.Credit: NAVY.
	Afloat near Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 14 October 1943, after being salvaged by the U.S. Navy. She had been sunk by USS Yorktown planes when they raided Tulagi on 4 May 1942. Photographed by the 34th Construction Battalion. The view was probably taken off the Halavo seaplane base, where Kikuzuki was originally salvaged, at the time she was moved into Purvis Bay.Credit: NAVY.		Glenn Martin (in cap, behind tail) and other men testing seaplane, possibly on Chicago lake shore in the summer of 1911.Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Hughes Flying-boat seaplane under construction at its dock in Long Beach, Calif.Credit: Library of Congress.		Pearl Harbor bombing. Wrecked seaplane. One of the 80 U.S. Navy planes wrecked by Japanese bombs and bullets during the air attacks on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. The plane was an OS2U, an Observation Scout built by Vought-Sikorsky.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Seaplane

Subject	Topic	Quote
Travel	Maldives	Most transportation in the Maldives is by boat or seaplane. (references)
	Maldives	Some resorts operate speedboats for their guests, and several local companies provide air taxi service by seaplane and helicopter to outlying islands. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Seaplane

"Seaplane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Seaplane" is used about 23 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%	23	72,767

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Seaplane

Expressions using "seaplane": boat seaplane ♦ float seaplane ♦ step of a seaplane. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Seaplane

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
seaplane	159	city seaplane vice	4
ak anchorage base hood lake seaplane	122	seaplane picture	4
event seaplane	20	pilot seaplane	3
association pilot seaplane	13	base brown jack seaplane	3
sale seaplane	11	4 donald rc seaplane	2
seaplane model	8	swiss army seaplane	2
rating seaplane	7	chalk seaplane	2
rc seaplane	6	bahamas seaplane	2
seaplane seattle	6	auto city grand seaplane theft vice	2
seaplane ultralight	5	alaska seaplane	2
seaplane training	5	instruction seaplane	2
association seaplane	5	cessna seaplane	2
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Modern Translations: Seaplane

Language		Translations for "seaplane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		hidroavion. (various references)

Bulgarian		хидроплан (amphibian, glider, hydroaeroplane, hydroplane, water plane). (various references)

Chinese		水上飞机 (hydroplane). (various references)

Czech		hydroplán (flying boat, hydroplane, water plane). (various references)

Danish		vandflyvemaskine. (various references)

Dutch		watervliegtuig. (various references)

Farsi		هواپیمای دریاءی . (various references)

French		hydravion. (various references)

German		Wasserflugzeug (hydroplane, waterplane). (various references)

Greek		υδροπλάνο (flying boat, gliding boat, hydroplane, hydroskimmer). (various references)

Hungarian		hidroplán (hydro-aeroplane, hydroplane). (various references)

Italian		idrovolante (hydroplane). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		水上飛行機 (hydroplane). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すいじょうひ�"うき (hydroplane). (various references)

Korean		수상 비행기. (various references)

Manx		mooiretlan, baatey etlagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		eaplanesay

Portuguese		hidroavião (hydrocarbon, hydropsy). (various references)

Russian		гидросамолет (flying boat, hydroaeroplane, hydroplane). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		hidroavion (floatplane, flying boat, hydroaeroplane, hydroplane). (various references)

Spanish		hidroavión (hydroaeroplane, hydroplane). (various references)

Swedish		sjöflygplan (hydroplane), hydroplan (gliding boat, hydroaeroplane, hydroplane, hydroskimmer). (various references)

Turkish		su uçağı, deniz uçağı (floatplane, flying boat, hydro, hydroplane, watercraft). (various references)

Ukranian		гідролітак (hydro-aeroplane, hydro-airplane). (various references)

Vietnamese		thuỷ phi cơ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Seaplane

Derivations
	Words beginning with "seaplane": seaplanes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Seaplane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pesapane, Scapania, seablite, sealine, seaplant, seaplece. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Seaplane

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: spelaean.
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-l-n-p-s"
	-1 letter: spelean.
	-2 letters: aneles, apneal, apneas, asleep, elapse, paeans, paesan, paleae, panels, peasen, planes, please, salpae, spleen.
	-3 letters: alane, alans, anele, anlas, ansae, apnea, aspen, easel, elans, lanes, lapse, leans, leaps, lease, lenes, lense, napes, nasal, neaps, neeps, paean, palea, pales, panel, panes, peals, peans, pease, peels, peens, peles, penal, penes, plane, plans, pleas.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-l-n-p-s"
	+1 letter: esplanade, panetelas, pleasance, seaplanes.
	+2 letters: aeroplanes, anablepses, esplanades, nameplates, plasmagene, pleasances, pleasanter.
	+3 letters: antechapels, capableness, elecampanes, encapsulate, inescapable, inseparable, pantalettes, plasmagenes, pleasantest, relandscape, unescapable, unspeakable.
	+4 letters: antipleasure, encapsulated, encapsulates, inappeasable, inseparables, malapertness, mesencephala, naphthalenes, planetesimal, pleasantness, pleasantries, relandscaped, relandscapes, unappeasable.
	+5 letters: anencephalies, antipleasures, capablenesses, elephantiases, elephantiasis, incapableness, palatableness, paleobotanies, peaceableness, phalansteries, planetesimals, preclearances, premenopausal, prosencephala, separableness, supersalesman.
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