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BOAT
boat
(noun) a small vessel for travel on water
boat
(verb) ride in a boat on water
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
boat (plural boats)
A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
(poker slang) A full house.
A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
(chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
(AU, politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
Usage notes
• There is no explicit limit, but the word boat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft, smaller than a ship but larger than a dinghy. It is also the normal designation for a submarine (however large), and also for lakers (ships used in the Great Lakes trade in North America).
Synonyms
• (craft on or in water): craft, ship, vessel
Hyponyms
• (A craft on or in water): ark, bangca, barge, canoe, catamaran, caravel, carrack, coracle, cruiser, cutter, dhow, dinghy, dory, Dutch barge, East Indiaman, felucca, ferry, galley, galleon, gig, gondola, hovercraft, hydrofoil, hydroplane, inflatable raft, jetski, junk, caik/kaiki/kayık, kayak, ketch, luxemotor, motorsailer, Norfolk wherry, outrigger canoe, peniche, pinnace, raft, schooner, scow, sealship, Seiner, ship of the line, skiff, sloop, submarine, tender, tjalk, trawler, trireme, trimaran, troller, tug, wangkang, water taxi, yacht, yawl
Verb
boat (third-person singular simple present boats, present participle boating, simple past and past participle boated)
(intransitive) To travel by boat.
(transitive) To transport in a boat.
(transitive) To place in a boat.
Anagrams
• Bato, Tabo, atob, btoa
Noun
BOAT (plural BOATs)
(internet slang) Acronym of best of all time.
Source: Wiktionary
Boat, n. Etym: [OE. boot, bat, AS. bat; akin to Icel. batr, Sw. båt, Dan. baad, D.& G. boot. Cf. Bateau.]
1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
Note: Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.
2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
Note: Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped. Advice boat. See under Advice.
– Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. Totten.
– Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter.
– In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] F. W. Newman.
Boat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boated; p. pr. & vb. n. Boating.]
1. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
2. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars. To boat the oars. See under Oar.
Boat, v. i.
Definition: To go or row in a boat. I boated over, ran my craft aground. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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