Boat

/ˈbəʊ̯t/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. (poker slang) A full house.
3. A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
4. (informal) A large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size.
5. (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
6. (Australian politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
7. (cellular automata) In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
8. Alternative form of BOAT.

Example Sentences

We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel[…]. Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banks boat just in from a v'yage.

The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

a stone boat;   a gravy boat

Near-synonyms: land yacht, sled

He claimed to be broke but he always drove that ridiculous boat.

It creates 4 blocks, a boat, and a glider every 768 generations.

Synonyms for boat

Antonyms for boat

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Word Forms

• boats
• boating
• boated

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