boat
IPA: bˈoʊt
noun
- 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.
- (Australian politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
- Alternative form of BOAT
- (Internet slang) Acronym of best of all time.
- Acronym of brightest of all time.
verb
- (intransitive) To travel by boat.
- (transitive) To transport in a boat.
- (transitive) To place in a boat.
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Examples of "boat" in Sentences
- The boat was seized.
- The boat was intercepted.
- The boat drags the seine and net in a circle around the fish.
- The boat was built in the style of the local herring fishing boats.
- As the lifeboat reached the beach, the first explosion shook the boat.
- There were a captain and jack on the boat, escaping from the sinking ship.
- Sea gulls hover in the sky and then rest on the sails of the fishing boats.
- The ship also inspired the name of the Saunders Roe Cutty Sark flying boat.
- This northern beach of magnificent tan sand is most agreeably reached by boat.
- It's been an hour and the group of volunteers aboard the rickety fishing boat are still yet to spot a Yangtze finless porpoise.
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