pontoon
A flat-bottomed boat or other floating structure used as a buoyant support for a…A flat-bottomed boat or other floating structure used as a buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage.
» The pontoons are detachable.
Meaning
7 sensesA flat-bottomed boat or other floating structure used as a buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage.
Ponton
понто́нpontón
понто́нpontón
(nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge
(broadly)A bridge with floating supports.
A box used to raise a sunken vessel.
Near-synonyms: caisson, camel, sea camel
понто́нpontón
A float of a seaplane.
поплаво́кpoplavók
a float supporting a seaplane
A lighter or barge used for loading or unloading ships.
(uncountable)A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.
(countable)A two-card hand totalling 21 in this game.
Examples
3 sentencesThe pontoons are detachable.
The children jumped off the pontoon into the lake.
The family used to go on pontoon rides down the creek every Fourth of July.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Middle French ponton, from Old French ponton, from Latin pontō, pontōnem (“fBorrowed from Middle French ponton, from Old French ponton, from Latin pontō, pontōnem (“ferryboat”), from pōns (“bridge”).
Probably from vingt-un, an obsolete variant of vingt-et-un (“twenty-one”), from French.
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