Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An airplane equipped with one or more floats for landing on or taking off from a body of water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a plane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water.
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- noun A
seaplane that hasfloats for landing or taking off from the water
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, sometimes she takes the family Piper Cub floatplane, which is older than anyone in her family.
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The wilderness community reachable only by boat, floatplane or on foot.
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The near-tragedy occurred Sunday afternoon as a Piper Navajo and Cessna 206 floatplane were flying directly toward each other in Lake Clark Pass — a narrow river valley that runs between Anchorage mountains.
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The area is accessible only by floatplane, snowmobile or four-wheeler.
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The nine people aboard the Piper Navajo and the four in the Cessna 206 floatplane had no idea they were about to collide in the passage.
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One day in July, she flew in a floatplane to the summer "spirit camp" at an ancient Russian trading settlement on Nuchek Island near Prince William Sound.
Despite questions over ANCs, many pay out millions in dividends, scholarships, charitable donations Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
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Alaska is huge you really need to fly over in a bush or floatplane at a couple K feet to get an idea of how much ground you have to cover.
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One day in July, she flew in a floatplane to the summer "spirit camp" at an ancient Russian trading settlement on Nuchek Island near Prince William Sound.
Despite questions over ANCs, many pay out millions in dividends, scholarships, charitable donations Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
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Alaska is huge you really need to fly over in a bush or floatplane at a couple K feet to get an idea of how much ground you have to cover.
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Midway buffs love to ponder the matter of the floatplane tardily launched from the Japanese cruiser Tone on the morning of June 4—part of a pattern of seven search aircraft fanning out from Nagumo's force as the opposing carrier fleets moved toward first contact.
The Beginning of the End James D. Hornfischer 2011
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