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Boat

//bəʊt// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Acronym of brightest of all time (“the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded in the universe”). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, informal
Noun
  1. 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.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Acronym of best of all time. Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  3. 3
    Alternative form of BOAT. alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    Alternative form of BOAT. alt-of, alternative
  5. 5
    a small vessel for travel on water wordnet
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  1. 6
    A full house. slang
  2. 7
    a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce wordnet
  3. 8
    A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

    "a stone boat;   a gravy boat"

  4. 9
    A large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size. informal

    "Near-synonyms: land yacht, sled"

  5. 10
    One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat. physical
  6. 11
    The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally. Australian, informal
  7. 12
    In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.

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

  8. 13
    Alternative form of BOAT. alt-of, alternative
Verb
  1. 1
    To travel by boat. intransitive
  2. 2
    ride in a boat on water wordnet
  3. 3
    To transport in a boat. transitive

    "to boat goods"

  4. 4
    To transport (deport to a penal colony). obsolete, slang, transitive

    "Troy was 'boated' for seven years after being found guilty of burglary and robbery."

  5. 5
    To place in a boat. transitive

    "to boat oars"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word. Compare typologically ship << Proto-Indo-European *skey-; Russian долблёнка (dolbljónka) (< долби́ть (dolbítʹ)), Russian чёлн (čoln) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)).

Etymology 2

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word. Compare typologically ship << Proto-Indo-European *skey-; Russian долблёнка (dolbljónka) (< долби́ть (dolbítʹ)), Russian чёлн (čoln) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)).

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