pontoon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flat-bottomed boat or other floating structure used as a buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage.
    — Thanks to the previous experience of the chief performers, to careful preparation and rehearsal, and to perfect weather conditions, they watched in breath-bated silence the spectacle of the huge bulk moving without a hitch into position over the temporary pier caps on which it settled as water ballast was admitted to the pontoons.
  2. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it. uncountable
  3. A bridge with floating supports. broadly
  4. A box used to raise a sunken vessel.
    — Near-synonyms: caisson, camel, sea camel
  5. A float of a seaplane.
  6. A lighter or barge used for loading or unloading ships.

词形变化

pontoons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
pontooner pontooning pontoon party tritoon

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Middle French ponton, from Old French ponton, from Latin pontō, pontōnem (“ferryboat”), from pōns (“bridge”).
词源 2
Probably from vingt-un, an obsolete variant of vingt-et-un (“twenty-one”), from French.
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