"pontoon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pɒnˈtuːn/ Audio: en-us-pontoon.ogg Forms: pontoons [plural]
Rhymes: -uːn Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ponton, from Old French ponton, from Latin pontō, pontōnem (“ferryboat”), from pōns (“bridge”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pent-}}, {{bor|en|frm|ponton}} Middle French ponton, {{der|en|fro|ponton}} Old French ponton, {{der|en|la|ponto|pontō, pontōnem|t=ferryboat}} Latin pontō, pontōnem (“ferryboat”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} pontoon (plural pontoons)
  1. A flat-bottomed boat or other floating structure used as a buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage. Translations (buoyant support for a temporary bridge, dock or landing stage): argsh (Albanian), панто́н (pantón) [masculine] (Belarusian), понто́н (pontón) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 浮筒 (fútǒng) (Chinese Mandarin), ponton [masculine] (Czech), ponttoni (Finnish), ponton [masculine] (French), flotteur [masculine] (French), Ponton [masculine] (German), ponton (Hungarian), pontún [masculine] (Irish), ポンツーン (pontsūn) (Japanese), понтон (ponton) [masculine] (Macedonian), pongtong [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), flytebrygge (english: landing stage) [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), pongtong [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), flytebrygge (english: landing stage) [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), flytebryggje [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ponton [masculine] (Polish), pontão [masculine] (Portuguese), ponton [neuter] (Romanian), понто́н (pontón) [masculine] (Russian), pontón [masculine] (Slovak), pontón [masculine] (Spanish), ponton [common-gender] (Swedish), понто́н (pontón) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. (by extension) A bridge with floating supports. Tags: broadly Synonyms: pontoon bridge
    Sense id: en-pontoon-en-noun-bR5D2b55
  3. A box used to raise a sunken vessel. Translations (box used to raise a sunken vessel): понто́н (pontón) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ponttoni (Finnish), pontún [masculine] (Irish), ponton (Romanian), понто́н (pontón) [masculine] (Russian), ponton [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-pontoon-en-noun-hF2wlqp4 Disambiguation of 'box used to raise a sunken vessel': 4 1 89 0 6
  4. A float of a seaplane. Translations (float of a seaplane): ilmatyyny (Finnish), pontún [masculine] (Irish), kōrewa (Maori), pongtong [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), pongtong [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), pływak [masculine] (Polish), поплаво́к (poplavók) [masculine] (Russian), ponton [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-pontoon-en-noun-pYXxKrLK Disambiguation of 'float of a seaplane': 1 1 0 97 0
  5. A lighter or barge used for loading or unloading ships.
    Sense id: en-pontoon-en-noun-NeM4s4lt
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pontoon party, tritoon
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /pɒnˈtuːn/ Audio: en-us-pontoon.ogg
Rhymes: -uːn Etymology: Probably from vingt-un, an obsolete variant of vingt-et-un (“twenty-one”), from French. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|-}} French Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} pontoon (uncountable)
  1. (card games) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Card games, Military Synonyms: vingt-et-un Related terms: baccarat, blackjack, twenty-one
    Sense id: en-pontoon-en-noun-5~GLBUt7 Disambiguation of Military: 0 0 0 0 9 91 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 3 4 1 6 42 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 43 4 5 1 4 43 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 45 3 5 1 3 43 Topics: card-games, games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.