Crossword clues for hydroplane
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hydroplane \Hy"dro*plane\, v. i.
Of a boat, to move through water while supported by hydroplanes[3] (see hydroplane[3], above).
to move through a body of water supported by the hydrodynamic forces on a surface, similar in principle to a hydroplane[3]; -- said, e. .g, of automobiles skidding on a shallow patch of water on a road when moving at high speed, thus causing the tires to lose contact with the road surface.
Hydroplane \Hy"dro*plane\, n. [Pref. hydro-, 1 + plane.]
A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an a["e]roplane.
A projecting plane or fin on a hydroplane[3] to lift the moving boat on top of the water; also, a gliding boat.
a powered surface boat fitted with planes (hydroplanes[2]) projecting below the hull, designed to lift the boat, when moving rapidly, so that the hull itself is lifted out of the water and the boat is supported by the hydrodynamic forces of the water on the hydroplanes[2], thus permitting higher speeds; formerly called a gliding boat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1908, "to skim the surface of water by use of hydroplanes," from hydroplane (n.). Meaning "skid on a thin layer of water" (especially of automobile tires) first recorded 1962, properly aquaplane (itself from 1961 in this sense). Related: Hydroplaned; hydroplaning.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English): A specific type of motorboat used exclusively for racing. 2 A hydrofoil 3 A seaplane 4 The wing of a submarine, used to help control depth. vb. To skim the surface of a body of water while moving at high speed.
WordNet
n. an airplane that can land on or take off from water; "the designer of marine aircraft demonstrated his newest hydroplane" [syn: seaplane]
a speedboat that is equipped with hydrofoils that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds; "the museum houses a replica of the jet hydroplane that broke the record" [syn: hydrofoil]
v. glide on the water in a hydroplane [syn: seaplane]
Wikipedia
Hydroplaning and hydroplane may refer to:
- Aquaplaning or hydroplaning which is also known as a loss of steering or braking control when a layer of water prevents direct contact between tires and the road, runway, or other surface.
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Planing (sailing), a method by which the hull of a boat skims over the surface of the water rather than plowing through it
- Any watercraft that is specifically designed to plane, including:
- Hydroplane (boat), a fast motor boat used in racing
- Hydrofoil, a boat with wing-like foils mounted on struts below the hull
- Any watercraft that is specifically designed to plane, including:
- Diving plane, a submarine control surface used to help control depth, analogous to the elevators on the tail of an aircraft
- Hydroblading, a figure skating move sometimes referred to as hydroplaning
- an aircraft designed to land on water
- Seaplane
- Floatplane
- Flying boat
A hydroplane (or hydro, or thunderboat) is a fast motorboat, where the hull shape is such that at speed, the weight of the boat is supported by planing forces, rather than simple buoyancy.
A key aspect of hydroplanes is that they use the water they are on for lift rather than buoyancy, as well as for propulsion and steering: when travelling at high speed water is forced downwards by the bottom of the boat's hull. The water therefore exerts an equal and opposite force upwards, lifting the vast majority of the hull out of the water. This process, happening at the surface of the water, is known as ‘planing’.
Usage examples of "hydroplane".
Kirk spent the morning at his club, Sutro Selestial Baths, where he rowed several kilometers in the hydroplane, boxed with a machine set at intermediate level, and relaxed in the steamy, invigorating Mercury Room.
Curiously, there was little to indicate that he spent most of his working days on or under the sea, except for a primitive painting of a clipper ship and a few other sailing vessels, a photo of his catboat under full sail and a glass-encased model of his racing hydroplane.
Sarah dropped the wallet on the passenger seat and tightened her grip on the wheel as her car hydroplaned slightly around a bend in the road.
As well as in some of the suburbs, causing multiple pileups as vehicles hydroplaned and trucks jackknifed on the expressway.
They skidded to a halt, one of them literally so as he fell flat on his ass and hydroplaned several yards down the hallway.
The vehicle began hydroplaning, and just as I was sure it was going to get stuck again, it suddenly straightened out and kept moving.
In addition to forward hydroplanes and internal watertight doors, Dupuy de Lome had given her a double hull, compressed air ballast, trim tanks, and electric power—everything nineteenth-century science could offer.
For the next test dive, Beau planned to have Bosun's steady hands on the hydroplanes, and use Jules Verne only as a technical advisor.
His firm grip on the hydroplanes was vastly superior to Jules Verne's palsied enthusiasm.
The repairs were crude, but sufficient to prevent further damage, and to make the minimal necessary use of rudder and hydroplanes now possible.
The hull around the propeller and even forward of the rudder and hydroplanes was scarred and pocked and buckled by the effect of the whiplash action of the flailing steel cables as they were tightened and enmeshed by the turning of the propeller.
The rudder and the hydroplanes had been patched with a skin of metal, or their plates twisted back into shape and form by use of the hammer, the rivet-gun, the welding and cutting torches.
The pen contained the torpedo tubes, the forward hatch, the forward hydroplanes, then the fin itself.
There were a number of scarred and buckled hull plates, but the propeller possessed new blades, the rudder fin and the hydroplanes gleamed with new metal.
But the hydroplanes pull it up and down, two pairs of them set fore and aft of the centre of gravity.