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/ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt/ · noun
(nautical) A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship)..
I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat
In a corner of the churchyard, where old headstones mark the graves of many mariners, is a striking white statue of a lifeboatman, erected as a memorial to three members of the local lifeboat crew who lost their lives in 1916 while trying to reach a ship in distress.
Use lifeboat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lifeboat means (nautical) A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship)..
Common synonyms include quarter boat, rowboat, raft.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat
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